The S23 Ultra was Worth the Pain 

Well, based on the way you setup your fingerprints, no wonder your unlock success rate was around 50%.

50-60% success on fingerprint? That's insane. I am about 98%.

It's interesting how when iPhone users switch to Android, they don't realize some of the benefits like 1 USBC cable for everything since iPhone is the only device using lightning, moving files to the phone doesn't require the use of itunes (but just like connecting to any external drive), being able to side load apps (many reasons to do this), setting up multiple instances of a messaging app. It's simply a case of they don't know what they don't know, and only see what's not there switching over from an iPhone

I never got this "green bubble" problem. In fact, outside of the US most people use Whatsapp as the main message service, SMS comes in only when you exhaust your data plan or the network is collapsed (third world problem, I know). I believe 95% of people will do great with a mid-range phone, and I put my money on that. So my daily driver is a Galaxy A53. So far, it's been great.

Using your fingertip instead of your whole finger to unlock gives you a 99% success in unlocking, trust me. Also set the top quick settings menu to appear when you swipe down anywhere on the screen, super convenient.

I made this move as well. Been an iPhone guy since the iPhone 3GS. It's been an interesting transition for me as well. Took me about two weeks to get all the settings and apps set up the way I like them. Have had no issues with the finger print reader on my end. The cameras are amazing, and the customizability of the OS is out to this world!

The fingerprint thing is so wild to me. It takes like 30 seconds to register 2-4 fingerprints and have about a 95% success rate first try 100% second

This is just the tip of the iceberg. So much more to the S23 Ultra. So much more to Androids operating system in general. Do what you want, not what Apple wants.

For the fingerprint, try registering the same finger twice. It helps alot with the accuracy

As a new android user, I found switching from Apple quite easy as everyone that I know uses WhatsApp and never iMessage, also, the process was smooth and easy to do when transferring to my new phone. Android, in my opinion, has surpassed iPhone in many areas, and using the system is so much more customisable and enjoyable over iPhone's stagnated iOS.

The freedom to customize my phone specifically to me is amazing.

I think fingerprint you couldn't set up properly.. I was switched from 14pm to s23u.. I really like this flagship. Great camera,zooming,display,battery performance, qhd with 120hz, stereo speaker, also earpiece 👌❤️

Unsure that gallery was gallery? Literally says gallery right under the icon.

I am sorry but iphone users switching to Samsung reminds me of villagers moving to the city and thinks the tall buildings are the city... they miss the greens but can't see the city offers infinite options within these buildings

Fingerprint sensor is perfectly fine... I've set up 4 separate fingerprints and they all work first time. If I was having a failure rate of 50 % I would re-register my fingerprint

I'd be curious to sew a follow-up video with the Goodlock app installed. There are so many improvements made available by installing this app and it's plugins.

Great review and very honest both OS has its strengths and weaknesses for sure. I think no matter what phone you pick these days your going to have a great device.

You don’t have to swipe from the top to bring down the quick settings menu. You can set it to appear by swiping down from any point on the screen and it’s great.

Great video! Where did you find that tree wallpaper?

Please share the link for that animated lock screen wallpaper with the diagonal lines.

First time on the channel and this is a great video! I have an S23 Ultra myself, and freaking love it! Also, I really liked your lock screen video wallpaper. Where did you find it?

Awesome perspective and review Michael! Interesting that you loaded iOS looking icons onto the Samsung 😅 glad you’re enjoying the phone and this definitely eases concerns for people who are deep into the apple ecosystem and may want to switch!

What mountain/tree wallpaper is that and where to download

Where did you get that lock screen wallpaper

I can so relate. I've been an Apple fan since the Iphone 3GS. I have been doing a lot of research on S23 Ultra. This video was very helpful. Thanks!

Talking about customization, do you use one hand operations+ ? If not, you should try

Your correct about people being the biggest issue switching over. 95% of my contacts are imessage, and the apple mafia with the green text is real. I switched from the 14PM last week to the S23 Ultra, and the first text to people were why did you get a android? Why do I owe an explanation, why does it matter 😒 I really believe in American imessage is the reason most people stay with Apple. Five years ago most android were laggy 💩 In the last couple years Android, high end androids, are just as smooth and stable as ios I agree about the pill, it never bothered me until using this S23 Ultra for a week. Now when I pick up the iPhone it's a distraction. Watching movies and videos is so much better on the Samsung, it doesn't stretch going full screen like the iPhone. I do have a iPad Pro with the mini led screen, so I mostly watch movies on that. I wish the S23 Ultra had a flat screen. I'm torn honestly. I think if you don't have any other Apple products S23 Ultra all the way. I think this Samsung is the better phone, is it a additional 1300 dollars better then the 14PM I just bought 3 months ago. I have 30 days to return, if I do it will he based solely on financial benefits. I think it's the better phone over all.

Great review! I have both the S23 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro Max. I too have issues with the fingerprint unlock, especially my right thumb. My S22 Ultra could never recognize my right thumb, but the S23 Ultra does about 50% of the time. Question about your Apple Watch Ultra with cellular: you said you get imessages on it, whereas you get all others on the S23U? Do the imessages eventually get sent to the S23U as a regular text message, or not at all? I'm trying to figure a way to enjoy my Watch Ultra while using my S23U.

also as far as I know if you turn off the scene optimizer it will get rid of the weird saturation and colors as well as the shutter lag

I have had nothing but success with the in display fingerprint sensor but what I did is register the same finger twice to make sure it was getting all areas of that finger I have loved the ultra fast fingerprint sensor since the s10 plus then my note 20 ultra and now my s23 ultra so maybe try adding a new fingerprint but use the same finger u have already registered so that way it'd getting all areas

All of the things you had problems or issues with is because of what I phones don't give you which is you can customize everything to fit what you want. Display, camera, icons, sounds ,etc. Everything can be customized to create the phone you want it to be.

Great video! Your discussion about the difference between the iOS vs Android ecosystem was right on. Many reviews focus on hardware specs, yet ignore critical differences in the two ecosystems. Thanks for an honest discussion about what it's like to leave the "walled garden."

I'm an android user... This phone, (my $1,750 with tax) Ultra 1TB is incredible! And I've barely touched the surface of what it's capable of. Great review,!!!

So as an Android user since the original HTC Evo I find this really interesting. A couple of years ago I decided to give the iPhone a try and got an iPhone 12 pro. It lasted almost 10 months before I the little annoyances at first became major complaints for me so much that I switched back to a Galaxy S21+

I love the fingerprint sensor, for me it's just about 100% accurate and works super fast. Tried my older note 10 + and I can't believe I delt with how annoying it was lol especially compared to this one.

I am a UX designer the only one on my team with an s22 ultra. I work with iOS everyday . Besides your mention of the fingerprint scanner (because it is user error on your part) everything you mention is true. 2 pre installed messaging apps, the time it takes for the the camera app to open up . These are just some of reasons why people think especially iphone users that android/Samsung is messy. Samsungs own icons need some major refinement. While iOS gallery icon is just a flower but it's beautifully done and iconic. While Samsungs still stuck in TouchWiz. On iOS the opacity, blurs and gradients that they use throughout thier system is just gorgeous. I'm glad you point out those details out because android fanboys don't seem to understand the psychology that goes into the work of designing icons. Owning an s22 ultra I love the phone but I appreciate the beauty of iOS. Samsung still has a lot of work to do to match that . Awesome video well done video!

You can disable iMessage in the settings, that way there isn’t much of an issue with missing new messages.

Where I can download live wallpaper shows in your video?

Great review! But have you really given up on the Apple Eco System? I see that you have the Ultra and the AirPods Pro, I’m a 14Pro Max user and I’ve been so enticed by the S23 Ultra but I’m a bit hesitant to make the switch. Do you think the S23 Ultra makes up for the things iPhones do better? 🙈

Great review and comparison!! Thanks for sharing.

Answer me this As an all round media device that equals any business task Is the iPhone 14 Pro ( Max ) brilliant Yes or no ?

Why you do fingerprint unlocking? Don’t like Smartlock features?

Basically any problem you have with the software can be fixed easily including the fingerprint scanner by the way just take a better scan and if need be you can input the same finger twice

Very cool! Now if we could just get support on high end accessory companies (like Grovemade phone stand) to help keep that elevated end user experience, that would be AWESOME!!

You forgot to mention Samsung Dex where you can use your phone as a desktop computer on a tv or computer monitor.

Very well done review. Very honest as well. I would say this though. Watch videos on tips for the SPEN usage. You will understand why you chose the ultra over the S23+. There are a few other things you can do with the pen. Trust me on that. Othrwise great video adn thanks for at least giving Android a chance.

If you're trying to take pictures of your kids and they're moving around too much what you can do is turn on motion photo it'll basically capture like a 1-2 seconds of video along with the photo and so if it's blurry or anything you can just go back and pick a frame that is not blurry

The live wallpaper is so great, what is it?

Can any one tell me what’s the notification sound in the starting of d video.

What app are you using at 13:23 that has four different elements open on the screen?

Hey what's your wallpaper app ?

The best video I have ever seen about switching. I did the same and experienced everything you have just said.

As you vet use to the OS, many of tbe vripes are easily resolved. It is lack of familiarity that is frustrating to you

Remember that samsung has the camera assistant on s23 ultra which improves significantly the shutter lag. Also, use the expert raw app which uses computational power in a better way and gives better results

The phone is definitely a sight to see. But as an iphone user, my concern about this is the tempered glass. It curves on the edges and I worry that this might affect the fingerprint scanner. Unlike face id, it just works no matter what.

Do you not know imessage reverts to text message when texting an android?

You should've had include Samsung dex great video

The fingerprint scanner is faster than ever. You have to make sure to use multiple angles and parts of your finger or thumb when setting it up. This improves accuracy.

This review just gave me the confidence to start my channel in my native language. Because you explain things with being so technical. It's a problem for other languages to cover things like processor and ram

You don't have to swipe from the top of the screen to access notification shade, anywhere on the screen swipe down.

for me the keyboard situation is just as bad on iphones. dont even get me started on the swipe to text. also the iphone is a sharp knife when youre neck deep into apples eco system and cant seem to accept there are other devices just as good if not better than what apple makes. and the only set of people that say android is trash are those that never used a flagship. they compare apples top of the life to samsungs or other android compainies 100 dollar phones. This is coming from an iphone user by the way.

3:14 there once was a tool called Sim ejector tool. Took 5 seconds to shift a sim card from one phone to another. Now it's a 5 minutes call.

I got tired of android's constant 'alpha release' feel. Sometimes sms app failed. Call app froze.. i got tired. I got iphone 6 years ago and loved it just worked. It did what i wanted and didnt really miss the random customizing and such. I tried having both iphone and z fold 3 a year ago and kinda liked the fold but. Iphone still was a better size and camera and better feel. Now i saw the s23 ultra and thought, since many iphone youtubers are ditching their iphones for it i thought ok. Ill try before switching to iphone again. And. Damn. Only thing i miss is facetime/imessage due to friends. But other than that. Love this. Everything i missed the 2 first day was a user error. I had to google the sollution and now it does everything i want plus more

i am not sure why you are having trouble with unlocking with the fingerprint, I think you need to re-register your finger once they [Your fingers] and the screen is clean. Samsung uses ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on this device so it shouldn't cause much false reads unless its done under unreasonable conditions

He does not have enough experience to give a well-detailed review of about s23U. Because most of the things he pointed out are not the case with Samsung even before 23U most of those pointed cons have been addressed. ** also don't be afraid to switch to Android because others are thinking it's weird. The only weird thing is the fact they do not know anything else apart from Apple Eco System** Other than that I like your contents 👍

Awesome review man! I personally think Samsung's been doing a great job putting together a seamless ecosystem in the past few years, and I've ben seeing more and more people begin to notice it 😅👌🏻

I didn’t know I could long press the edge handle to reposition it without entering settings!!!

switching from the Iphone 14 Pro Max to this phone. It delivers this week and im ready. My last android was the Galaxy S3. One thing I noticed in the video that im curios on how to do is changing the icons to the familiar IOS icons? thats the only thing id want to change, other then that, I know I will like the S23 Ultra better

Desk looks sick, what color is it?

I have the ultra 23 I had the same problem but I realized it was the screen protector and also added my thumb 5 times and fixed the problem lol so it might be his screen protector

DId you really had problem with finger print reading? I have a s23 and for me is almost perfect.

did you tried samsung DEX?

Are you related to Jaime Rivera of PocketNow lol, great video.

I have an iPhone 14 pro max and I have been using apple eco system for years. But I got an S23 ultra since I was really impressed by the expert raw (well, I am a photographer). I must say up to 10x the phone produces decent quality pictures. But after using it for, just less than 2 weeks, I am really disappointed because I have been having consistent WiFi issues. (And, having problems with bluetooth and LTE connectivity too, from time to time) I went to Samsung service centre (in Singapore) and all they could tell me was, "we are aware about the issues" and I (I guess every Samsung s23 ultra owner) must patiently wait until around June 2023 to get an update from Samsung to fix these issues. And the customer care guy gave me a "very valuable" advice that I should use only WiFi 5 and don't use WiFi 6. I have been using WiFi 6 for years now! (Everyone in Singapore does!) All my apple devices work perfectly with it. It's ridiculous that Samsung's flagship phone can't support WiFi 6. And I can't believe Samsung can simply get away like this. A smartphone is useless if it can't provide consistent WiFi/bluetooth/LTE connectivity. It's such a disappointment. I will never buy a Samsung phone again.

Great content. The one thing you forgot to mention is Dex. If you haven't tried it test it out.

*Saved for later* can't watch right now but this is a must watch

You can open the notification panel by swiping down anywhere from the homescreen, just enable it in homescreen settings, but I guess it comes so by default. And when it comes to the fingerprints... Dude, you're just doing everything wrong, and that's it, but it is kinda normal for a newbie, tutorial can help you.

Try to update your phone. There’s a new update that was released. It will make it so much faster for the shutter speed

He's very honest and straight to the point 👍

Try action launcher shutters. Best launcher ever and efficient use of space

I must say, this is the very honest and fair review I've ever seen so far. I suppose once you completely explored the features of this phone, the "downside" or "badside" that you mentioned will be trimmed down significantly. I've been using Samsung since S3 series and every new series i get, especially this S23 ultra, i always need 1 whole week just to figure out every hidden features Samsung added. As of now, I'm loving the One UI 5.1 which you better check as well..

i cant go iphone because all my whats app messages are saved on gmail (5years of stored messages and files). but i tried it, what your comments says on the 1st part of the video is still true if its you are an android user shifting to ios.

Never had one finger print failure on m s23 ultra weird

yeah thats one thing i dislike is the apps asking you to rate them.

Let me know when you want to check out a z fold. The split screen or pop apps, teams call on one side and any other app you have on the other. Or top and bottom which ever you prefer. And if you had a windows machine there's link to windows where you can call, text, open any app you want all on your pc but it's virtually your phone. By the way it's coming the Mac too. Yes some of the apps are buggy and missing features that iPhone has which annoys but I blame Apple and the different android launchers from all the phone manufacturers. Should all just have vanilla Android. PS: I have some unopened galaxy buds 2 you can try with your new s23 ultra.

This is the MOST sensible and unbiased content I've ever seen comparing the IOS and Android ecosystems. Kudos! Will be following your videos mate. Cheers!

I was an Apple user until the Note 10+ came out.. Not a great camera but it was a great phone! Now I have the S22 Ultra which has become great in 2023, the Tab S7+ & the Watch 5 Pro. Never had an issue since I switched & not going back. If you've held 1 iPhone? You pretty much held them all. It's a great marketing technique by Apple because they take your old 12 & turn it into a 14 & resell it brand-new.. Same with Samsung

It's cute that you think the split-screen and pop-out view are experimental features. In fact, Samsung implemented those features in their OS way before Google or Android did, back during the S5. They pretty much pioneered those features, and now I can't live without them. Quick Story: the other day at the doctor's appointment, I used split screen. The top part was my old blood test results. the bottom part was my new blood test results. Instead of focusing on me, the doctor started fiddling in his iPhone 14 pro max, trying to find that feature. 😂😂😂 Sad and funny at the same time.

Nice review.

Thanks for the video. Tried iphone 13 after a decade on android. After 9 months I upgraded early to an S23 plus. I just kept running into things that iphone can't do. The absence of a status bar alone drove me nuts. Face unlock was the only thing on the phone that I really liked but I hated that notch on the iphone. There are Android phones that have face unlock with the additional 3D and IR sensors like iphone but I never owned one of those Androids. On my s3 I just disabled face unlock and used the fingerprint sensor. It works great for me. You just have to have a compatible screen protector, apply just a tad more pressure and make sure you do a good job of adding the fingerprint in the settings. I have a success rate of about 90-95%. If it doesn't read my fingerprint I just press again. Its not that big of a deal for me. You mentioned you love the extra real estate without that big ugly iphone notch. That notch is for the additional sensors that make iphone face unlock work so well. If you want smooth seamless face unlocks like on iPhone then you have to give up some space on your screen.

My fingerprint works 100% of the time. I notice most of the complaints the "iPhone switchers" have are user error

Greay review but you definitely couldn't have set up your fingerprints the correct way to have this bad of a success rate. I've never had any issues with my fingerprints. I have 2 sets for each thumb

I agree with the opinion, both of them are fantastic devices!

You lost me at the fingerprint sensor, I've never had it fail on me at any point. My S21 ultra and now S23 ultra have been 99-100% success rate with the fingerprint sensor. You can also register the same fingerprint twice to increase efficiency. These "lifelong iPhone user tries Android" videos need to stop, they're just for clicks at this point. Tech RU-vid is beginning to stagnant.

Great perspective

Great video, thanks

Great review

You don't get iMessages? I don't think I've had that problem. Are you asked to turn it off as an Apple user sending a text to Samsung users?

I want the s23 ultra so bad but it's hard to let go my 14 pro and apple watch ultra and airpod pros 2 and m1 iPad pro lol

so which one will be your daily driver :_??