Get your phone number out of the iMessage system or forever wonder if Apple is snatching your messages. If you want to keep all of your existing text messages and bring them over to your new phone, an app called iSMS2droid can get the job done. The process is a bit gnarly and involves manually backing up your iPhone to a computer, then finding specific files and transferring them onto your Android phone — but if you really need to save all your old messages, it's about the best option you have.
The silver lining is that once you're on Android, keeping your messages synced and available on any device can be thought-free. Just be sure to pick a messaging app that automatically backs up and restores data from the get-go, and you'll be fine as wine. So long, iCloud Drive — hello, Google Drive. The most direct way to get all your data off of Apple's cloud storage service and onto Google's is to install the desktop apps for both iCloud Drive and Google Drive on your Mac or Windows PC.
Wait for the transfer to finish, and that's it: Every one of your precious files is now available via Google Drive on Android as well as on iOS and the web. The bad news: Any apps you've installed on your iPhone won't automatically transfer over to Android, and any apps you've paid for on iOS will likely have to be purchased again.
The good news: These days, most major productivity apps are readily available on both platforms. And once you're all set up with Android, all of your apps and app data will automatically sync with Google's servers and follow you to any future Android devices. Take a few minutes to go through Google's Play Store — either on your Android phone or via a web browser on any computer — and search for the apps you want. If you install an app onto your phone and it asks you to sign in when you first open it, make sure to use the same username or email address you used on your iPhone so that any data tied to your account will carry over.
After you've settled in, you may want to explore a bit further beyond the apps you already know. Unlike iOS, Android allows all sorts of clever tools for customizing and controlling the core user interface, and some of them can enhance your efficiency in pretty interesting ways. Thank your lucky stars, because bringing music over from iOS to Android is no longer the absolute nightmare it once was. There's nothing to it if you use a streaming service like Spotify , Pandora , Google Play Music , or even — amazingly — Apple Music ; just download the equivalent app from the Google Play Store, sign in, and your entire collection will be at your fingertips in seconds.
If you have your own personal music collection, your best bet is to download the Mac- or Windows-based Music Manager app for Google Play Music. Google has said this personal music storage feature will eventually be brought over to the newer YouTube Music service — which is expected to replace Google Play Music at some point in the foreseeable future — but we've seen no signs of that happening just yet.
The one lingering exception is any music purchased from iTunes prior to , as such songs were encoded into a proprietary and DRM-protected version of the AAC format. Those files, by design, won't be compatible with any other music service. Otherwise, your only real option is to employ the old-school workaround of burning those tracks to a CD assuming your computer still has a CD burner, of course , then putting the CD back into the computer and ripping the songs into a standard unlocked format.
That'll result in lower-quality audio than you'd get purchasing the tunes directly from almost any music service nowadays, but it is what it is. Well, wouldya look at that? You've done it! All your important info is now off your iPhone and on your new Android device, and you're ready to start anew as a card-carrying Android phone owner. Before we bid adieu and send you scampering off on your new adventure, let's take a moment to go over a few things of note as you learn your way around this wild new world.
First, the getting-around basics: No matter where you are in Android, you can always swipe down once from the top of the screen to see any pending notifications and swipe down a second time to see the full Quick Settings panel. And speaking of notifications, Android makes them exceptionally easy to control — so learn the ins and outs of notification management and don't let your phone's alerts control you.
Android's notifications panel left and Quick Settings panel right are never more than a swipe away. Their exact appearance may vary from one phone to the next. If your device shipped with Android 10, you'll find what's sure to be a somewhat familiar-seeming gesture-driven system for getting around your phone: From anywhere in the operating system, you can flick your finger upward from the bottom of the screen to return to your home screen, swipe upward about an inch from the bottom of the screen and then stop to open the system Overview interface and browse through your recently used apps, and swipe toward the right on the bottom of the screen to flip back quickly through those same recently used apps.
Then copy that file to your Android phone put in internal storage or SD card. Note : The quickest way to find that file is by copying the file name into your file system search bar.
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