Google has lastly countered Apple’s “Move to iOS” app by releasing “Switch to Android” for iOS on the App Store, confirming earlier rumors. As the identify signifies, it is designed to assist iPhone and iPad customers import contacts, photographs, calendars and video to an Android system. It additionally exhibits customers methods to flip off iMessage in favor of Android messaging and switch photographs/movies by connecting to iCloud.
Google dropped the brand new app with out a number of fanfare, as TechCrunch notes. On its Switch to Android web site, the app continues to be not talked about and might solely be discovered on the App Store with a direct hyperlink — search outcomes nonetheless flip up nothing.
The app is an enormous enchancment over the present system, which requires you to again up photographs, video, calendar and contacts utilizing the Google Drive iOS app. It was first noticed final summer time by 9to5Google in code tucked into Google’s Data Transfer Tool, and seen in a more recent release with the flexibility to import iCloud video and photographs into Google Photos.
Apple’s equal app arrived manner again in September 2015, so Google actually took its time responding. “Move to iOS” works in a lot the identical manner, serving to customers import photographs, video, messages, contacts and extra over to an iOS system. One Android system maker, Samsung, has its personal system migration app as nicely known as Smart Switch, serving to you turn from an iPhone or different Android system to a Galaxy smartphone. However, it is solely out there on Google Play or its personal Galaxy retailer and would not run on iOS.
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