Movement from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

Ready to transfer to iOS? Download the Move to iOS app to become aid switching from your Android device to your new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

screens showing the Move to iOS app on iPhone and Android

Before y'all brainstorm

  • On your Android device, make certain that Wi-Fi is turned on.
  • Plug your new iOS device and your Android device into power.
  • Make sure that the content you're moving, including what's on your external Micro SD card, will fit on your new iOS device
  • If you desire to transfer your Chrome bookmarks, update to the latest version of Chrome on your Android device.

Tap Motion Data from Android

Open up the Movement to iOS app

On your Android device, open up the Move to iOS app. If you don't have the Motility to iOS app, you tin tap the QR lawmaking push on your new iOS device and scan the QR code using the camera on your Android device to open up the Google Play Store. Tap Continue, and read the terms and conditions that appear. To continue, tap Agree.

Expect for a code

On your iOS device, tap Continue when you lot see the Move from Android screen. Then wait for a ten-digit or six-digit code to appear. If your Android device shows an alert that you have a weak cyberspace connection, you can ignore the alert.

Move from Android screen on iPhone showing code

Use the code

Enter the code on your Android device.

Connect to a temporary Wi-Fi network

Your iOS device will create a temporary Wi-Fi network. When asked, tap Connect to join that network on your Android device. Then wait for the Transfer Data screen to appear.

Cull your content and wait

On your Android device, select the content that you lot want to transfer and tap Keep. Then—even if your Android device shows that the process is complete—leave both devices alone until the loading bar that appears on your iOS device finishes. The whole transfer can take a while, depending on how much content you're moving.

Here's what gets transferred: contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, photo albums, files and folders, accessibility settings, brandish settings, spider web bookmarks, post accounts, and calendars. If they're available on both Google Play and the App Store, some of your free apps volition also transfer. Later on the transfer completes, you lot tin can download any free apps that were matched from the App Store.

Set up up your iOS device

After the loading bar finishes on your iOS device, tap Done on your Android device. And then tap Keep on your iOS device and follow the onscreen steps to finish setup for your iOS device.

Stop up

Make sure that all of your content transferred. Music, books, and PDFs need to exist moved over manually.

Need to go the apps that were on your Android device? Go to the App Shop on your iOS device to download them.

If y'all need help with the transfer

  • Make sure that you leave both devices alone until the transfer finishes. For example, on your Android device, the Movement to iOS app should stay onscreen the whole time. If you use another app or get a phone call on your Android before the transfer finishes, your content won't transfer.
  • On your Android device, turn off apps or settings that might bear upon your Wi-Fi connection, like the Sprint Connections Optimizer or the Smart Network Switch. Then find Wi-Fi in Settings, bear on and hold each known network, and forget the network. So try the transfer again.
  • Restart both of your devices and effort again.
  • On your Android device, plough off your cellular data connexion. Then try the transfer again.

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