Here is a neat trick to hurry up your migration to the Google Pixel 9

One of the crucial annoying issues about getting a new Android cellphone has historically been transferring knowledge from an outdated machine. This may take a very long time, but it surely seems the Pixel 9 telephones pace issues up with a nifty strategy.

Analyst Max Weinbach famous on X you can concurrently use Wi-Fi and a cable when transferring knowledge from an outdated cellphone to the Pixel 9 collection. He additionally noticed you can plug within the cable “at any level” and the telephones will make the most of the wired connection.

That is excellent news because it ought to ship a big pace increase on paper for knowledge migration. That is additionally an enchancment over the earlier technique of utilizing a wired connection, which required you to first faucet the picture on the “copy apps and knowledge” display 5 instances.

It’s not the primary time we’ve heard Google was engaged on simultaneous wired/wi-fi knowledge migration, both. We first found proof of this function through an APK teardown in Could, so this has clearly been within the works for some time.

This isn’t the one knowledge migration enchancment out there on the Pixel 9 collection. Now you can select to revive knowledge out of your outdated cellphone to the Pixel 9 collection at any time. In contrast, earlier Pixels solely allow you to restore knowledge in the course of the preliminary setup course of.