Android to iOS switch

March 31, 2017, 01:04 PM

Would've preferred to stay with Android but the iPhone makes more sense for a few reasons. How much of a pain is it to get my apps and more importantly my contacts migrated?

March 31, 2017, 01:26 PM

Spiff_P239

Should be a piece of cake as I've done it before. Download the Android app "Switch to iOS" before you set up your iPhone and it'll automate most of the process.

March 31, 2017, 01:34 PM

maladat

While you can find apps on iOS that will provide the same functionality as almost any app you can use on Android, in a lot of cases, they aren't the SAME apps. Depending on what you use, you may have to find a similar app and there may not be any way to transfer existing data or settings.

There are a few things you can do on Android that you can't do on iOS because of Apple's restrictive software design. Those tend to be pretty techy things, though.

March 31, 2017, 01:34 PM

braillediver

Here's link:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/switch-to-iphone/

March 31, 2017, 02:08 PM

bigdeal

As I tell each of the members of my family, if you keep all your contacts in Google Contacts (as opposed to just locally on the device or something proprietary) you'll never have any issues with losing or converting them.

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March 31, 2017, 04:03 PM

ensigmatic

I've thought of making the same switch, as I no longer trust Android any more than I do MS-Windows, but I have quite a number of paid apps, and apps I use that, last I looked, have no iThing analog :/

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March 31, 2017, 05:01 PM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
As I tell each of the members of my family, if you keep all your contacts in Google Contacts (as opposed to just locally on the device or something proprietary) you'll never have any issues with losing or converting them.

That's what I do - Google contacts. When I got my iphone, I downloaded microsoft outlook and the contacts were populated with my Google contacts.

Yes, I still have the google mail and calendar apps also. But it just gives me choices.

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March 31, 2017, 06:56 PM

Leemur

I used google contacts so looks like I'm in the clear.

March 31, 2017, 08:40 PM

henryaz

quote:
Originally posted by maladat:
While you can find apps on iOS that will provide the same functionality as almost any app you can use on Android, in a lot of cases, they aren't the SAME apps. Depending on what you use, you may have to find a similar app and there may not be any way to transfer existing data or settings.

And there are some apps that exist on both OS's, from the same vendor, but have different features or work differently due to the OS differences. For about a year I owned an Android phone, but I still used the iPhone as my main phone. I didn't have any problem finding apps with similar or close functionality, but as maladat says, you might have to set it up from scratch. I don't have any really specialized apps, however.