Transfer data from an iPhone to a Pixel

Y'all can re-create your iPhone information, similar texts, photos, music, contacts, apps, and calendars to a Pixel telephone. Become tips on how to employ your phone.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Step 1: Items you lot can copy to your Pixel

What copies during setup

  • Texts, iMessages, and all iMessage content, similar photos, videos, and other media
  • WhatsApp chat history
  • Telephone and iCloud contacts and calendars
  • Photos and videos saved on your iPhone
  • Apps
    Tip: Many unpaid iPhone apps take Android versions. You automatically get the Android versions from Google Play (where available) when you set upward your Pixel.
  • Photos, videos, and other media on iMessages
  • Well-nigh music
    Important: Music with iTunes Digital Rights Management protection won't transfer. Music downloaded from Google Play or YouTube Music doesn't transfer either. Learn how to download music to mind to offline.
  • Some wallpapers, similar photos
  • Call history
  • Domicile screen layout

Important: Contacts and calendars that you lot copy to your Pixel telephone sync and upload to your Google Account online. Info associated with your Google Business relationship syncs when you lot sign in to your business relationship on your Pixel phone.

What won't copy during setup

  • App data
  • Paid apps
  • Unpaid apps not matched on the Play Store
  • In-app purchases
  • Photos where an original isn't stored on your iPhone
    Tip: When you lot plow on Optimize Storage, original photos are in iCloud and non on your iPhone. Lower resolution versions of your photos won't copy, even if they're stored on your iPhone.
  • Photos, videos, documents, and other files stored in iCloud. Learn how to request a transfer of iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos.
  • Phone settings, like Wi-Fi passwords
  • Music with iTunes Digital Rights Management protection
  • Accounts other than Google Accounts and their data
  • Contacts and calendars synced to services other than Google or iCloud
  • Bookmarks from Safari
  • Some 3rd-political party chat app data

Learn how to transfer some of this data after setup.

Step two: Get ready to copy

  1. Charge both of your phones.
  2. Discover what you need. Acquire what comes with your phone.
    • The Quick Switch Adapter
    • A cable that works with your iPhone, similar the one y'all utilize to charge
    • Your SIM card and SIM carte du jour insertion tool, unless you accept an eSIM
  3. On your iPhone:
    • Plough off iMessage and Facetime. Acquire how to turn off iMessage.
    • If an organization, like a business or school, manages your iPhone, information technology can limit your transfer. Acquire what you tin can do.
  4. On your Pixel phone:
    1. Plow on your Pixel.
    2. Insert your SIM card into your phone. Learn how to get a SIM card and insert it.
    3. A "Start" push button appears on screen. If you don't run across "Start," acquire how to render to setup.

Footstep 3: Copy your data

Re-create data from your old phone with a cable (recommended)

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap Offset.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Copy Apps & Data," tap Next and then Copy your data.
  3. When asked to "Use your old device", tapNext.
  4. Turn on and unlock your current phone.
  5. Plug one cease of a cable into your current phone.
  6. Plug the cable'south other terminate into your Pixel phone or into the Quick Switch Adapter and plug the adapter into your Pixel phone.
  7. On your electric current telephone, tap Copy.
  8. Follow the on-screen instructions.
  9. On your Pixel phone, you'll come across a list of your information.
    • To copy all your data, tap Copy.
    • To re-create just some data:
      • Plow off what you don't desire.
      • Tap Copy.
  10. When your transfer is washed, you can use your telephone.

Copy information from a cloud backup

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap Start.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or your mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Copy Apps & Data," tap Next.
  3. When asked to "Utilise your old device," tap Tin can't utilize old phone.
  4. Follow the on-screen steps to log in to your Google Account and access your backup.

Re-create data from your iPhone | Pixel

Fix issues with information transfer

Related resource

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  • Explore your phone

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