Google’s ‘Switch to Android’ app helps iOS users do just that

Google has lastly countered Apple’s “Transfer to iOS” app by releasing “Change to Android” for iOS on the App Retailer, confirming earlier rumors. Because the title signifies, it is designed to assist iPhone and iPad customers import contacts, photographs, calendars and video to an Android machine. It additionally exhibits customers easy 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 plenty of fanfare, as TechCrunch notes. On its Change to Android web site, the app remains to be not talked about and might solely be discovered on the App Retailer with a direct hyperlink — search outcomes nonetheless flip up nothing.

The app is a giant 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 Knowledge Switch Device, and seen in a more moderen launch with the power to import iCloud video and photographs into Google Images. 

Apple’s equal app arrived manner again in September 2015, so Google definitely took its time responding. “Transfer to iOS” works in a lot the identical manner, serving to customers import photographs, video, messages, contacts and extra over to an iOS machine. One Android machine maker, Samsung, has its personal machine migration app as nicely referred to as Good Change, serving to you turn from an iPhone or different Android machine to a Galaxy smartphone. Nevertheless, it is solely accessible on Google Play or its personal Galaxy retailer and would not run on iOS.