I recently tried to move people over, and the iOS situation is bleak. It seems like notifications don't work at all in any app, which is a big problem for chat. Also, one of them (I think Siskin?) doesn't display sender name/avatar in group chats, so you can't tell who sent what.
There's also some weird behavior with how E2EE works, which is causing me problems in group chats. Initially it worked, but now people are unable to read some messages with errors like "this message was not encrypted for this device"
FWIW, everything works great on Android with the Conversations app, and also I admit I haven't really RTFM'd too much so it may be my fault as a lazy admin.
My experience with XMPP server hosting is that the defaults are not what you actually want, and many bare minimum features (not even talking about reactions) are bolted on.
Monal works great on iOS in my families experience. They've never missed a notification and E2EE (OMEMO) never failed. We are using the conversations.im server however.
There's also some weird behavior with how E2EE works, which is causing me problems in group chats. Initially it worked, but now people are unable to read some messages with errors like "this message was not encrypted for this device"
FWIW, everything works great on Android with the Conversations app, and also I admit I haven't really RTFM'd too much so it may be my fault as a lazy admin.
Edit: this is with ejabberd btw