Move to iOS

Apple

About this app

Everything about iOS is designed to be easy. That includes switching to it. With just a few steps, you can migrate your content automatically and securely from your Android device with the Move to iOS app. No need to save your stuff elsewhere before switching from Android. The Move to iOS app securely transfers all kinds of content data for you:

Apps
Calendars
Call logs
Contacts
Camera photos and videos
Mail accounts
Message history
Voice memos
WhatsApp content

Make sure to keep your devices nearby and connected to power until the transfer is complete. When you choose to migrate your data, your new iPhone or iPad will create a private Wi-Fi network and find your nearby Android device running Move to iOS. After you enter a security code, it will begin transferring your content and put it in the right places. Just like that. Once your content has been transferred, you’re ready to get going. That’s it — you can start using your new iPhone or iPad and experiencing its endless possibilities. Enjoy.

Required App Permission

Location: To establish a Wi-Fi connection between the Android device and the iPhone or iPad, which is needed to migrate the data.

Optional App Permission

- SMS: To migrate your text messages, including multi-media messages and group chats, on iPhone or iPad.
- Photos and Videos: To migrate your photos, videos, and related metadata to iPhone or iPad.
- Notifications: To allow local Android notifications about the status of your migration to iPhone or iPad.
- Contacts: To migrate your contacts to iPhone or iPad.
- Music and Audio: To migrate your downloaded media, audio recordings, and voice memos to iPhone or iPad.
- Phone: To migrate your SIM and carrier information so you can make and manage phone calls on iPhone or iPad.
- Calendar: To migrate your calendar events to iPhone or iPad.
- Call Logs: To migrate your call history to iPhone or iPad.

You can use Move to iOS even without providing consent to any of the above optional app permissions. However, some features of the service may not be available.

Ratings and reviews

It did a lot of things right, but with messaging, Apple needs to make this application request the user to make it the default message app until the transfer is complete so that it can properly transfer the RCS messages. I spent hours finding a work around, and almost returned the iPhone because of the hassle. If they can fix that issue, I would give it 5 stars.

I had negative expectations after reading all the bad reviews, but, it worked flawlessly using the wired connection method. I think what made my transfer under 20 mins was the fact that I culled my contacts, media, and also messages beforehand so there would be less b.s. to transfer. Also, I don't take a lot of photos or videos with my phone. If you're culling, get ready to get all nostalgic as you review your past content.

What an awful, awful app. As much as Apple may hate Android, you would think they might put a modicum of effort into an app that is meant to switch people to their own platform. And yet, here we are. Seriously, this must've been made by the bottom of the barrel of their software team. There was no thought (limited thought at the most) put into the data transfer process. Why in the hell can data only be transferred over Wi-Fi? Was the reasoning supposed to be security? Because nothing is more secure than a direct cable connection, and it also happens to be faster. Perhaps their thought was that a user might accidentally yank out the cable in the middle of the transfer and have to start the process over again - which might be fine IF their Wi-Fi transferring worked. As you might be able to tell from the plethora of other reviews, it almost never works. When you do manage to connect, the estimated time is absurdly long, and often drops connection or runs into an error during the middle of the transfer. It's awful, and I hate that this is the only free way to transfer text messages from an Android phone. But seriously, it's 2022. Almost every Android phone from the past 5 years has been using USB-C, and the cable you get in the box for new iPhones is USB-C to Lightning. You'd think that a data transfer using the cable included in the box (that conveniently has both connections most people would need) would be a no-brainer. But I guess it's a tiny-amount-of-brainer, because the no-brains who design and update this app still manage to miss the mark. Hope they fix the Wi-Fi issues and add a cable transfer method, because this is an awful way to introduce people to the iPhone ecosystem, and I imagine it'll drive away many people who can't figure out alternate ways to transfer data.

What’s new

• Faster data migration using a cabled connection between your iPhone and your Android phone (USB-C or USB-C to Lightning)
• Connect over WiFi or Personal Hotspot
• iOS tips are now displayed during migration
• Call history and Dual SIM labels are now migrated
• Voice recordings are now migrated to the Voice Memos app or the Files app depending on the file format
• New languages supported: Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu