I purchased an iphone 16, what went wrong? just after the return policy, the UK demanded that apple inserts a backdoor into icloud, apple refused and has stopped encrypted our backups, that’s another thing, IOS is so locked down, when i’m in europe I can download apps and work the phone without an icloud account, but in the UK I cannot.
I also found that a 60hz display on a $899 smartphone is unacceptable and the camera is just bad, no other words to really describe it, I get a lot better photos from my Motorola and Pixel 3a. To be fair to apple though I did like the camera zoom slider and the battery life was great! but considering my country is starting to become like the country they criticize for lack of free speech, censorship and surveillance they sure do want to be like them.
So I have got rid of the iphone and went back to my pixel 3a, which still runs well and can download apps and use it thoroughly without making an account.