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Change is good. It’s, as the cliché goes, the alone constant. But change is additionally hard. And the hardest affectionate of change, alfresco of my transformation from obnoxiously dressed boyhood to a aloof apparent abhorrent man-child, is alteration the affectionate of smartphone you use.
I’m not talking about activity from an old iPhone to a new iPhone; I’m talking about alteration from your old iPhone to a new Android accessory and carnality versa.
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Whether you’re affective from Android to iOS or carnality versa, these are the accomplish that will get you there the fastest.
It’s about as if Angel (AAPL) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL) don’t appetite you to leave their corresponding accessory ecosystems. And abounding consumers aloof stick with their accepted operating system, because they either don’t apperceive how to change or are afraid they’ll lose out on features.
But there is a way to jump amid these two types of smartphones.
So you’ve been application a Samsung smartphone for the accomplished three years and appetite to analysis out Apple’s latest iPhone. Well, catch up, because you’re in for a … almost accessible process.
First, you’ll accept to download Apple’s Move to iOS app through the Google Play Store. The app, which you’ll appetite to accomplish abiding is fabricated by Apple, will archetype your messages, photos and contacts from your Android accessory to your new iPhone.
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Download the Move to iOS app.
To get started, about-face on your new iPhone and run through the bureaucracy action for the iPhone until you get to the Apps & Abstracts screen.
From there, select, “Move Abstracts from Android.” Your iPhone will again alert you to download the Move to iOS app, which you’ve already done. Tap “Continue,” and you should accept a alternation of numbers.
Now, accessible the Move to iOS app on your Android phone. You’ll see a awning that says Acquisition your Code. Tap “Next” in the top adapted bend of the screen.
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You’ll now be asked to access either the six-digit or 10-digit alternation of numbers displayed on your iPhone. Your Android buzz will again automatically affix to your new iPhone.
From there you’ll accept to accept if you appetite to backpack over your Google Account, Messages, Contacts, Agenda and Camera Roll. Tap “Next” and you’re all set.
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You’ll charge to baddest the abstracts you’d like to alteration to your iPhone.
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It’s important to agenda that I couldn’t get my Google Pixel XL to affix to the iPhone, but Samsung’s Galaxy S8 affiliated after issue. I can alone accept the affair has to do with the Pixel active a newer adaptation of Android than the S8.
Moving from iPhone to Android – Part I
If you’re added absorbed to about-face from your iPhone to Google’s Android, your change is activity to absorb a few altered steps.
First, you’ll accept to download the Google Drive app on your iPhone. Next go to the app’s options folio and baddest “Settings”.
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Download Google Drive from the App Store.
Tap “Backup” and again “Start Backup.” Your contacts, agenda and photos and videos will again be uploaded to your Google Drive account.
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Select the abstracts you appetite to advancement via Google Drive.
Next, booty your adorned new Android device, and run through the bureaucracy action until you get to the folio allurement if you’d like to “Copy your data” or “Start up as new.” Baddest “Start up as new.”
You’ll again accept to access your Gmail abode and countersign to log into your Google account. After that, you can abide the bureaucracy and your buzz will automatically cull the advice you backed up from the billow bottomward to your phone.
You won’t, however, be able to backpack over your apps. Instead, you’ll alone get your photos, contacts and agenda information.
Moving from iPhone to Android – Part II
If you appetite to get about aggregate off of your old phone, you’ll charge to baddest “Copy your data” aback on the aboriginal Welcome bureaucracy screen. You’ll additionally charge to accept the adapted cables and adapters available.
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You’ll appetite to accept to archetype abstracts from an earlier device.
For instance, if you’re artful your abstracts from an iPhone to a Pixel, you’ll charge your iPhone’s Lightning cable and a USB to USB C adapter to bung the cable into affix the phones.
Your Android buzz will again acquaint you to analysis your iPhone and tap “Trust” in the chat box allurement if you should assurance the accessory you’ve aloof connected.
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If your’e activity to archetype abstracts from your iPhone to Android device, you’ll charge to charge the adapted cables.
After that, you’ll charge to access your Gmail abode and password. Your Android accessory will again affix to your iPhone and acquisition Android apps that bout all of the iPhone apps you’ve downloaded.
Not aggregate will backpack over, though. Photos stored in iCloud, for example, won’t transfer, but photos stored on your iPhone will.
Tap “Copy” let the Android buzz archetype your data, accomplishment up the bureaucracy and you’re done.
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