Google Rebrands Data Transfer Tool to ‘Android Switch’
As a part of its efforts to streamline the method of switching from iOS to Android, Google says its Data Restore Tool is now known as ‘Android Switch’. The itemizing for the app on the App Store and Google Play store 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 Switch app can switch a person’s chats, calendars, contacts, Wi-Fi networks, Google account, and different knowledge from an iPhone to a brand new Android system. It additionally exhibits customers how one can disable iMessage when switching away from iOS — an important step that should be accomplished earlier than a one can start receiving SMS messages (or RCS messages, in supported areas) from different customers.
According to Google’s FAQ page, customers will have the ability to switch contacts, calendar occasions, and on-device images and movies utilizing a cable or the cloud. However, in the event that they need 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 telephone utilizing the Android Switch app will profit from a 40 p.c improve in switch speeds, which seems to be a substantial leap in efficiency during the last 12 months. The firm did not share any particulars on the way it managed to enhance switch speeds when utilizing a cable.
When the Pixel 9 sequence was launched, Google additionally launched the power to rapidly full an preliminary setup course of so customers can get quicker entry to their smartphone, then begin the information switch course of at a later stage. While this characteristic is presently restricted to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Google says it will likely be out there on extra Android telephones in 2025.
