Google has released a new app in the App Store to help users switch from iPhone to Android smartphone. The Switch to Android app is now available in Apple’s application store.
the app Switch to Android has been quietly released in the App Store. Switch to Android helps iPhone users who want to switch to Android to transfer data to the new smartphone. Contacts, calendar information, photos, and videos. This is possible with the help of Google Drive, so that you can transfer your data without cables. Also, the app can help transfer the photos and videos that you have stored in your iCloud to Google Photos.
Unfortunately, the app is not yet able to transfer all data. For example, you cannot transfer app data from your iPhone to Android using Switch to Android.
Move to iOS
With the app, Google follows Apple, which has been offering a similar app in the Play Store since 2015. Of Move to iOS Apple has an app in the Play Store that actually helps users switch to an iPhone from an Android smartphone. Move to iOS data is also transferred wirelessly because the smartphone creates a WiFi network to which the new iPhone connects.
Move to iOS is also unable to transfer app data. That is the case for bookmarks, accounts, messages and also the calendars, contacts, photos and videos.
transfer WhatsApp
If you switch from an iPhone to Android, or vice versa, there is no option to transfer app data yet. This is especially difficult if you want to transfer your WhatsApp conversation history. While you can back these up to Google Drive or iCloud, the conversation history is not interchangeable.
In the summer of 2021, WhatsApp known that it will be possible to transfer the conversation history, starting to Samsung smartphones. For Samsung smartphones, this is now possible with Samsung’s Smart Switch App†Another way to migrate WhatsApp between Android and iPhone is still not possible.
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