Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Ready to transfer to iOS? Download the Motility to iOS app to get help 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 you begin

  • On your Android device, make sure 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 Move Data from Android

Open up the Move to iOS app

On your Android device, open the Movement to iOS app. If y'all don't have the Move to iOS app, you tin can tap the QR code 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 announced. To keep, tap Concord.

Wait for a code

On your iOS device, tap Proceed when you see the Move from Android screen. And so wait for a ten-digit or vi-digit lawmaking to announced. If your Android device shows an alert that you have a weak internet connection, you tin ignore the alert.

Move from Android screen on iPhone showing code

Employ the code

Enter the lawmaking on your Android device.

Connect to a temporary Wi-Fi network

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

Choose your content and wait

On your Android device, select the content that you want to transfer and tap Continue. So—even if your Android device shows that the process is complete—exit both devices alone until the loading bar that appears on your iOS device finishes. Go along your devices near each other and plugged in to ability until the transfer completes. The whole transfer can have a while, depending on how much content you lot're moving.

Here'south what gets transferred: contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, photo albums, files and folders, accessibility settings, brandish settings, web bookmarks, mail service accounts, and calendars. If they're bachelor on both Google Play and the App Store, some of your free apps will also transfer. Later on the transfer completes, y'all can download whatsoever free apps that were matched from the App Store.

Prepare your iOS device

Later on the loading bar finishes on your iOS device, tap Done on your Android device. Then tap Proceed on your iOS device and follow the onscreen steps to finish setup for your iOS device.

Finish up

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

Demand to get the apps that were on your Android device? Get to the App Store on your iOS device to download them.

If you need help with the transfer

  • Make sure that you lot get out both devices alone until the transfer finishes. For case, on your Android device, the Motility to iOS app should stay onscreen the whole time. If you utilise some other app or go a telephone call on your Android before the transfer finishes, your content won't transfer.
  • On your Android device, turn off apps or settings that might affect your Wi-Fi connection, like the Sprint Connections Optimizer or the Smart Network Switch. Then find Wi-Fi in Settings, touch on and hold each known network, and forget the network. Then try the transfer again.
  • Restart both of your devices and endeavor again.
  • On your Android device, turn off your cellular data connection. Then try the transfer over again.

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