I am new to this forum, so please excuse if I post my issue in the wrong category. But maybe you can bring me on the right categories / subjects or discussions. Furthermore I am not native English speaking therefore please excuse possible mistakes. I am a very long user of apple products and so is my family. But for privacy reasons I want to change from IOS to an e/OS Fairphone 6. Before I just want to make sure, the my basic needs are covered.
So I found the list of compatible eBanking apps. But as I am based in Switzerland, the Valiant Bank / twint app is missing on the List. Does anybody has experience with it? On e/OS?
I am used to backup and restore my phone very easily.Are there possibilities to do same/similar?
What about synchronizing a calendar with my family members? Is this still possible with a hack or an alternative tool/app?
And the cloud solution iCloud is rather cheap for 2 TB, is there an alternative to it, with wich I can synchronize my Photos and Documents?
Hopefully you have some suggestions for me, or you can point me to the right places, where I can find the answers or possible solutions, so that I will be able to avoid some known pitfalls…
Welcome to e/os. Here is some info for your questions:
I’m not a Valiant customer and not based in Switzerland. I was able to download & install the twint app, but not the Valiant Bank app. I was able to find the package (com.valiant.mobilebanking.release), but it enforces a download from the Google Playstore… Banking apps are somewhat an Achilles Heel of e/os, due to the way Google & many banks are implementing security. You could check if your bank has web browser access, which is a workaround for some banks. For in-store payments, the Curve app & wearables are a workaround. If your bank forces the app for access or security, you could keep your iPhone around as backup for banking stuff or switch banks…
Yes, e/os uses Seedvault and there are also third party apps to support backup & restore. When picking a cloud provider, make sure they support WebDAV access to enable third-party-app access.
There are third party apps for family calendars, not using any of them personally.
If you want app backup, photo and document backup, pCloud (Swiss based), Koofr (Slovenia) or some Nextcloud providers can offer it. Both pCloud & Koofr are cheaper or comparable to iCloud and do offer e2e encryption “vaults” where you hold the keys, so it enhances security over iCloud (Apple has the iCloud keys and could access your data or give it on government request, if they decided to). Murena has a fully integrated cloud services with many features similar to iCloud, including mail, calendar, office apps, notes, etc. plus an encrypted vault. It probably is closest to the iCloud experience in the e/os environment. But there was a six month outage of the service some time ago, so you might want to search this forum for the thread and read through it to see, if you are comfortable with that or not… iCloud has a 99.999999999% availability - Murena has a lot fewer, if any 9s…
checkout the apple-ios tag too it has lots of clarifications (and solutions at times).
on 2) Backup: got better in recent Android versions (past A15) and /e/OS 4.0 too has improvements - but it isn’t care-free. Messengers often handle their own backup that you need to pick up in the backup config
on 3) Synchronizing a Calendar: you can subscribe to any .ics link a iCloud user shares with you. For the other direction see this thread. You can’t all write to the same calendar, but you can share each others calendar and the Calender app will aggregate
Search: “coming from ios”