Most college students stress about exams or rent, but this one had to worry about their mom knowing their every move.

After years of being monitored through iPhone’s “Find My” app, he finally switched to an Android… and sparked a family meltdown.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for buying an Android Phone instead of an iPhone, thus probably causing illness symptoms for my mother?

After 4 years of having an iPhone SE, and more of having other iPhones, I (age 22) recently bought an Android phone (Samsung A25).

This has lots of reasons—mainly storage issues and my mother controlling me over the “Find My” application from Apple.

For his mother, her obsessive tracking closely related to her health problems.

She uses this to get herself more relaxed. Sometimes she has digestion problems when my phone is apparently stuck in a shopping mall overnight (because the battery died), just to give an example.

The family has a history with secrecy.

I am not able to turn the location off (I don’t know the password to the Apple ID—only my parents do—and they obviously don’t give it to me for this reason).

So he decided to ditch iPhone entirely.

So I had to buy a new Android phone as I consider myself old enough to live without their supervision.

I had a phone call with my father today, and he seemed not happy about what I had done.

This created a storm of drama.

I am the first in my family not to have an iPhone. We need to transfer all data, etc., and my mother will probably suffer under psychosomatic effects.

I should say that I’m a student, so I don’t have a regular revenue and depend roughly half on my parents when it comes to money.

AITA for buying this phone?

He was just trying to claim a little autonomy, but his parents saw it as an act of defiance.

What did Reddit think?

Eventually, his mother will have to come to grips with the fact she can’t always know where he is.

It’s time the family stop enabling this mother’s obsessive behavior.

There are other ways to escape his mother’s control other than switching to an entirely new operating system.

This user affirms that this college student did the right thing here.

He may have gained privacy with a new phone, but it came at the cost of family peace.

Now he’s left wondering: Is independence is worth the emotional backlash?

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