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:

Contacts
Message history
Camera photos and videos
Mail accounts
Calendars
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.

Ratings and reviews

Not sure of the very negative reviews but for transferring whatsapp chats, it worked perfectly for me at first try. Yes, it is annoying that you need to rub both screens periodically during the prep and transfer to avoid connection drop, yes it is annoying that the progress bar stays stuck at 2-3% for 5 good minutes BUT... Overall that helped me to solve the issue I was struggling with this transfer. Nice also that a lot of apps (not everyone though) got replicated along this process.

Completely broken now and does not move past the start page. UNUSABLE. I used this two times earlier today, and it refused to load many of my message threads. Those it did, it only uploaded the texts I sent. Now, after reinstalling it, it won't even move past the start page of the app. No ability to type in the pin from my iPhone.

I'm sure it's hard on the technical side to switch from Android file formats to iOS, but this app pretty completely fails at achieving this goal. The file transfer ALMOST completed the first time I did it, but my new iPhone fell asleep (quite easy to do because in setup you can't change how long it takes for the screen to sleep, meaning I had to tap it every 30 seconds for HOURS), and the transfer failed anyway. After many more attempts I just gave up on transferring most data.

What's new

This release adds support for transferring WhatsApp messages and attachments from Android to iPhone.