Motion from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Ready to transfer to iOS? Download the Motion to iOS app to go help switching from your Android device to your new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on.

screens showing the Move to iOS app on iPhone and Android

Before you brainstorm

  • On your Android device, make sure that Wi-Fi is turned on.
  • Plug your new iOS device and your Android device into power.
  • Brand sure that the content you're moving, including what'south on your external Micro SD carte, will fit on your new iOS device
  • If yous want to transfer your Chrome bookmarks, update to the latest version of Chrome on your Android device.

Tap Movement Data from Android

Open the Move to iOS app

On your Android device, open the Move to iOS app. If you don't have the Move to iOS app, you lot can tap the QR code button on your new iOS device and scan the QR code using the photographic camera on your Android device to open up the Google Play Store. Tap Proceed, and read the terms and weather that announced. To go on, tap Hold.

Wait for a lawmaking

On your iOS device, tap Continue when you see the Move from Android screen. Then wait for a ten-digit or vi-digit code to announced. If your Android device shows an alert that you have a weak internet connection, you can ignore the warning.

Move from Android screen on iPhone showing code

Use the code

Enter the code on your Android device.

Connect to a temporary Wi-Fi network

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

Cull your content and wait

On your Android device, select the content that you want to transfer and tap Keep. Then—even if your Android device shows that the process is complete—leave both devices solitary until the loading bar that appears on your iOS device finishes. Proceed your devices about each other and plugged in to ability until the transfer completes. The whole transfer tin can take a while, depending on how much content you're moving.

Here's what gets transferred: contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, photograph albums, files and folders, accessibility settings, display settings, web bookmarks, mail accounts, and calendars. If they're available on both Google Play and the App Shop, some of your free apps volition also transfer. Later on the transfer completes, you tin download any gratis apps that were matched from the App Store.

Gear up your iOS device

After the loading bar finishes on your iOS device, tap Washed on your Android device. Then tap Continue on your iOS device and follow the onscreen steps to finish setup for your iOS device.

Finish upward

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

Need to become the apps that were on your Android device? Go to the App Store on your iOS device to download them.

If you lot need help with the transfer

  • Brand sure that you leave both devices lonely until the transfer finishes. For instance, on your Android device, the Move to iOS app should stay onscreen the whole time. If you use another app or get a phone phone call on your Android before the transfer finishes, your content won't transfer.
  • On your Android device, turn off apps or settings that might bear upon your Wi-Fi connectedness, similar the Dart Connections Optimizer or the Smart Network Switch. Then find Wi-Fi in Settings, touch on and hold each known network, and forget the network. So try the transfer once again.
  • Restart both of your devices and try once again.
  • On your Android device, turn off your cellular data connexion. Then try the transfer again.

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