Google is making it simpler for iPhone house owners to modify to Android smartphones. The corporate has rebranded its knowledge switch device 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 knowledge switch characteristic launched on the Pixel 9 collection may also make its method to different Android telephones in 2025. The corporate additionally says that knowledge transfers from iOS to Android when utilizing a cable will now be significantly quicker.
Google Rebrands Information Switch Instrument to ‘Android Swap’
As a part of its efforts to streamline the method of switching from iOS to Android, Google says its Information Restore Instrument is now known as ‘Android Swap’. The itemizing for the app on the App Retailer and Google Play retailer has already been up to date with the brand new identify, 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 knowledge from an iPhone to a brand new Android system. It additionally reveals customers how one can disable iMessage when switching away from iOS — a necessary step that have to be accomplished earlier than a one can start receiving SMS messages (or RCS messages, in supported areas) from different customers.
Based on Google’s FAQ web page, customers will have the ability to switch contacts, calendar occasions, and on-device pictures and movies utilizing a cable or the cloud. Nevertheless, in the event that they wish to switch messages, apps, on-device music, and notes, they might want to switch their knowledge utilizing a cable.
Google additionally says that customers who use a cable to switch knowledge 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 soar 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 collection was launched, Google additionally launched the flexibility to shortly 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 the moment restricted to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, and Pixel 9 Professional Fold, Google says will probably be obtainable on extra Android telephones in 2025.