Google’s ‘Transfer to Android’ app is helping iOS customers do exactly that | Engadget-MyCyberBase

Google has after all countered Apple’s “Transfer to iOS” app via freeing “Transfer to Android” for iOS at the App Retailer, confirming previous rumors. Because the title signifies, it is designed to assist iPhone and iPad customers import contacts, pictures, calendars and video to an Android tool. It additionally presentations customers learn how to flip off iMessage in choose of Android messaging and switch pictures/movies via connecting to iCloud. 

Google dropped the brand new app with out a large number of fanfare, as TechCrunch notes. On its Transfer to Android web site, the app continues to be no longer discussed and will most effective be discovered at the App Retailer with an instantaneous hyperlink — seek effects nonetheless flip up not anything.

The app is a large growth over the present gadget, which calls for you to again up pictures, video, calendar and contacts the use of the Google Pressure iOS app. It was once first noticed remaining summer time via 9to5Google in code tucked into Google’s Knowledge Switch Instrument, and observed in a newer unencumber being able to import iCloud video and pictures into Google Pictures. 

Apple’s similar app arrived long ago in September 2015, so Google surely took its time responding. “Transfer to iOS” works in a lot the similar means, serving to customers import pictures, video, messages, contacts and extra over to an iOS tool. One Android tool maker, Samsung, has its personal tool migration app as neatly known as Sensible Transfer, serving to you turn from an iPhone or different Android tool to a Galaxy smartphone. Alternatively, it is only to be had on Google Play or its personal Galaxy retailer and does not run on iOS.