Google Introduces Switch to Android App for iPhone: How to Use

Google has silently launched a brand new Switch to Android app for iOS customers who wish to change over from an iPhone to an Android smartphone. It is presently unlisted on the App Store, which implies customers can’t merely search and obtain the app. The Switch to Android app will permit customers to switch vital data together with contacts, calendar occasions, pictures, and movies — with none cables. Apple already gives an identical app on the Play Store for Android customers switching to iOS.

The itemizing for the brand new Switch to Android app is now reside on the App Store as an unlisted app for iPhone house owners trying to transfer out of Apple’s ecosystem, in keeping with a report by 9to5Google. Users who obtain the app shall be guided by means of the method of transferring their information to their new Android cellphone — together with the vital step of disabling iMessage, to make sure that messages from different iPhone customers are delivered as SMS on the brand new Android cellphone.

With the brand new Switch to Android app, customers will have the ability to switch contacts, calendar occasions, pictures, and movies from their iPhone to a brand new Android cellphone. Previously, customers would wish to switch their information to Google Drive from their iPhone, which might take up fairly a little bit of space for storing — or join a Lightning to USB Type-C cable on a cellphone operating on Android 12. In addition to pictures and movies that may be copies from the iPhone, the Switch to Android app can even permit customers to switch their pictures from iCloud to Google Photos.

Unlike Apple’s Move to iOS app that has been accessible on the Google Play retailer since September 2015, the Switch to Android app is presently unlisted on the App Store. Earlier this yr, Apple added support for ‘unlisted app distribution’ which permits customers to obtain apps accessible through a direct hyperlink.

Gadgets 360 was in a position to confirm that the brand new Switch to Android app was not seen when looking the App Store, however was accessible by visiting the direct link on the App Store.

The App Store itemizing for the Switch to Android reveals that customers will should be operating iOS 12 or in a while their iPhone. The description for the app additionally informs customers that the app will ask for a collection of permissions to entry information on the consumer’s iPhone, so as to full the switch to an Android system. The App Privacy part reveals location, contact data, consumer content material, utilization data, identifiers, and different information listed for assortment beneath “Data Linked to You”. Google is but to formally announce the app, and there’s no phrase when it is going to be listed on the App Store.