Google’s Pixel 9 household got here with one distinctive characteristic within the Android world – the power to repeat knowledge from one other machine at any level, even previous the preliminary setup.
This may lastly make it to different Android gadgets in 2025, Google has introduced immediately. It is going to be a part of a set of enhancements that Google is brining to the Android Swap expertise.
Google says it will assist you to “try your new telephone first and switch your knowledge later”, so you possibly can “shortly full your preliminary setup and get your knowledge if you’re prepared”.
Everytime you do really feel such as you’re prepared, you possibly can provoke the post-setup knowledge copy from Settings or the just lately renamed Android Swap app which you’ll seize from the Play Retailer. And for these upgrading to a brand new Android from an previous one, there’s now an categorical setup choice, which transfers solely the information that’s saved on the machine and not one of the stuff you have already backed as much as the cloud.
The brand new Android Swap expertise “walks you thru clear steps to get arrange and to be taught concerning the options in your new machine”, Google says, because it is aware of “it’s necessary to have the ability to get your chats, calendars, contacts and extra in your new machine, together with the nitty-gritty info like your Wi-Fi, display screen lock and Google account”.
When you’re utilizing a cable to go from an iPhone to an Android machine, it is now 40% quicker to switch your knowledge in comparison with 2023, in a transfer that “saves hours for individuals who have loads of knowledge to maneuver from telephone to telephone”.
