My wife finally convienced me to go back to an IHate, last one I had was a 5. Really the security of Apple really pushed me over the edge.

Anywho....trying to transfer years of apps and other assorted data is a major pain. I tried the Apple app and it won't stay connected so I am going to try just backing up everything to a new gmail account. The biggest thing is my contacts along with some of the apps I actually paid for.

Any suggestions on other methods/apps?

I will say the 12 Pro Max is very nice...there again it should be considering the price.

Thanks ahead of time.

Let your carrier do it.

Bob

I had trouble with the Apple app staying connected as well, so I skipped transferring the photos and it worked. I transferred the photos to my computer and then to my new iPhone.

Good luck with your new device. This was just the beginning for me of things that didn’t “just plain work” like some folks say Apple products do.

nothing i'm aware of.

i have the same apps on both android galaxy 8+/i-phone 8+.....the apps look alike but they don't function the same.

Not every app backs up its data to the cloud.

Contacts can be synced to Gmail or Microsoft 365. Files and photos can be synced to Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox. Some apps let you log in and back up your data to their own online systems. But if that's not an option you're out of luck.

My wife found a app called Transfer It or Transfer Content, or Content Transfer. She took everything off my old Galaxy 5 and put it on my Pixel 3. Worked pretty slick.

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
My wife finally convienced me to go back to an IHate, last one I had was a 5. Really the security of Apple really pushed me over the edge.

That was my initial impetus. Since then the integration between Apple devices (now have phones, tablets, and Apple TVs. I have Air Pods and an Apple Watch) results in such a nice ecosystem that has become equally as meaningful

Neither Google nor Apple makes it easy.

For photos the best way might be a Dropbox account. Move 'em into Dropbox, then from Dropbox into the new phone/cloud storage.

For Contacts and Calendar data I configured Google's into my iThings. I then moved my contacts from Google space into iSpace (I no longer recall how) and gradually transferred repeating Calendar events into my Apple calendar (all you have to do is edit the Calendar event and change the calendar name). When I was eventually certain I had it all I removed the Google Contacts and Calendar connections.

My digital keyring was easy, since I have a copy on my computer. I simply made certain that was up-to-date on my computer and manually copied it from my computer into my phone.

Notes I think I manually copy-and-pasted. There weren't many.

Pretty much everything else resulted in new apps, as many apps that are on Android aren't on Google, and vice-versa. I lost investments in a couple hundred $$$ in paid apps. I hated that, but I couldn't stay in the Alphabet/Google/Android ecosystem any longer.

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Originally posted by goose5:
My wife found a app called Transfer It or Transfer Content, or Content Transfer. She took everything off my old Galaxy 5 and put it on my Pixel 3. Worked pretty slick.

That's Android <-> Android. Android's had a configuration and cloning tool as part of its app suite for years. So has Apple. This is iOS <-> Android. Not the same thing.