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As 2021 continues its merciless passage I find myself getting drawn back to the iPhone when I next upgrade. Maybe it's just boredom creeping in again, just as with my switching email clients, but maybe there's more to it.

It sounds a little shallow but the design aesthetic of apps on iOS is leaps and bounds beyond Android, I also think that the default apps (Notes and Mail for example) are better than on most Android phones. Although I manage perfectly well, especially with much of my time now being purely web-based, the idea of reverting to a single ecosystem is appealing.

My main concern about reverting to iOS has always been that I have a WearOS watch which will require a degree of compromise. Fossil Gen 5 devices (of which my Skagen Falster 3 is one) received an update last year that allows them to make/receive calls on an iPhone – unlike just about all other WearOS watches – so the biggest issue is moot but there are still nagging doubts.

To get an idea of how things might be I recently went back to one of the default watch faces rather than the custom one I installed last month as the app used is not available on iOS. Yes, watch faces can be installed directly from the Play Store on the watch itself but I wanted to see how I got on with a standard one. To be honest, with the way and amount I use the watch, a custom face is really the least of my worries. I don't use a plethora of complications and have no real need for a lot of data to be available at a glance. Notifications are a swipe away no matter what face you use and the tiles available when swiping right cover most of my functionality, along with the programmable side buttons.

I mentioned before about waiting for the inevitable hardware leaks to emerge before making a decision having gotten used to a punch-hole front camera but I used the iPhone X very happily and if the images showing a smaller notch are genuine, I can't really see it being a problem. You get used to what's in front of you.