I just read through all of these helpful posts and got some answers I need.
(Velvet, I, too, am a “stick in the mud” about privacy. And I sure don’t want facial recognition. It’s bad enough when I have to recognize my own face on my phone when I start to take a picture and startle myself when I realize I have flipped the camera. This is especially horrifying if I am looking down at whatever I was trying to photograph.

I assume fingerprinting and facial recognition can be turned off. Is that correct?)
My main concern about the transferring from Android has been that I don’t want to lose my pictures and/or my contacts.
I know I would like a big screen, even though the bigger screened iPhone would not fit in that convenient side pocket, with its own zipper, that is on the outside of my usual purse.
Thank you to all of you for the help you took the time to give me.
Boomer