Google is making it simpler for iPhone homeowners to modify to Android smartphones. The corporate has rebranded its information switch instrument that helps customers on iOS transfer their data and accounts, and it’s now known as Android Swap. In the meantime, Google has additionally confirmed {that a} helpful delayed information switch characteristic launched on the Pixel 9 sequence may also make its option to different Android telephones in 2025. The corporate additionally says that information transfers from iOS to Android when utilizing a cable will now be significantly quicker.
Google Rebrands Knowledge Switch Device to ‘Android Swap’
As a part of its efforts to streamline the method of switching from iOS to Android, Google says its Knowledge Restore Device is now known as ‘Android Swap’. The itemizing for the app on the App Store and Google Play store has already been up to date with the brand new title, a refreshed icon, and the outline refers to it as “Google’s official switch app”.
The redesigned Android Swap app can switch a consumer’s chats, calendars, contacts, Wi-Fi networks, Google account, and different information from an iPhone to a brand new Android gadget. It additionally exhibits customers the right way to disable iMessage when switching away from iOS — an important step that should be accomplished earlier than a one can start receiving SMS messages (or RCS messages, in supported areas) from different customers.
In accordance with Google’s FAQ page, customers will be capable to switch contacts, calendar occasions, and on-device photographs and movies utilizing a cable or the cloud. Nonetheless, in the event that they need to switch messages, apps, on-device music, and notes, they might want to switch their information utilizing a cable.
Google additionally says that customers who use a cable to switch information from their iPhone to a brand new Android cellphone utilizing the Android Swap app will profit from a 40 p.c improve in switch speeds, which seems to be a substantial bounce in efficiency over the past yr. The corporate did not share any particulars on the way it managed to enhance switch speeds when utilizing a cable.
When the Pixel 9 sequence was launched, Google additionally launched the power to rapidly full an preliminary setup course of so customers can get quicker entry to their smartphone, then begin the info switch course of at a later stage. Whereas this characteristic is at present restricted to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Google says it will likely be accessible on extra Android telephones in 2025.
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