We assume that you just already had a smartphone earlier than. This naturally raises the query of find out how to switch the information from one smartphone to the opposite. It is necessary that you just do not carry out a manufacturing facility reset on your previous smartphone till the very finish, as this not solely deletes your settings but in addition all of your music, footage, images, movies, system and app information in addition to all accounts, corresponding to your Google account—in brief, all of your information.

Even if you wish to resell your previous smartphone as rapidly as potential or your youngsters are already impatiently ready to inherit your cellphone—do not delete the previous cellphone till the very finish.

Observe: We used a Pixel cellphone with Android 15 for this information. Because the preliminary setup on most Android telephones comply with an ordinary Google course of, variations needs to be minimal in most different manufacturers or system variations. Nevertheless, when you’ve got any questions, please write them down within the feedback and we’ll reply them as quickly as potential.

While you unpack your cellular phone for the primary time, you’ll normally discover it with {a partially} charged battery. The battery cost is normally adequate to arrange the cellphone, however you need to examine the cost degree earlier than transferring information. Alternatively, you possibly can merely plug the cellphone into an influence socket to set it up and make sure that the battery doesn’t run down when transferring information from the previous cellphone. On the similar time, you should use the Android smartphone independently of the ability provide.

Earlier than establishing the working system, you need to insert your SIM card and have the PIN or PUK that you just obtained out of your cell phone supplier prepared. In case you look within the field of your new cellphone, you’ll normally discover a small device that you should use to insert the SIM card. Sony is the one producer we all know of that’s an exception. Right here, the SIM tray will be faraway from the cellular phone with out a device.

Search for a small gap within the cellular phone that’s surrounded by a bigger recess. Consideration! On the high and backside of the smartphone there are largely different openings behind which microphones are situated. By no means do you have to insert the device right here. Insert the SIM card device into the small gap with the sting of the SIM tray and the SIM card tray ought to come out of the system.

Now push the tray again into your smartphone and guarantee that it does so with out a lot resistance. In case you discover that the inserted SIM card is caught, it’s higher to drag the slide out of the system once more and insert it the opposite approach round. In case your smartphone “nonetheless” presents the choice of increasing the reminiscence with a microSD card, insert this into the SIM tray as effectively. That is normally situated on the again. Please discover out whether or not your smartphone presents this assist.

With a Google account (also referred to as a Gmail account) you possibly can entry the Play Retailer. This incorporates apps for obtain, i.e. packages that supply further features on your smartphone. You too can obtain updates on your put in purposes by way of the Play Retailer. You may arrange an account in your previous smartphone as follows:

• Open the Settings app.
• Choose Passwords, passkeys & accounts (or Accounts and synchronize).
• Select Add account (if a third-party account is obtainable).
• Choose Google.
• Observe the directions.

Nevertheless, there’s a far better benefit to having a Gmail account, particularly when establishing a brand new smartphone for the primary time:

Google backs up all of your apps, images and movies, SMS and MMS, name logs, system settings, contacts, calendar appointments, e-mails in addition to Docs, shows, and spreadsheets within the cloud. So if this has not already been executed on the previous smartphone, now could be a very good time to rapidly create a Google account on the previous cellphone and synchronize all this stuff with the cloud. You may provoke the backup perform and the primary synchronization as follows:

• Open the Settings app.
• Select Google.
• Choose Backup.
• Choose (or create) a Google account.
• Faucet on Again up now.

Your new smartphone is now prepared for the preliminary setup:

• Hook up with a Wi-Fi community.
• Insert a SIM card or setup an eSIM.
• Choose your language
• Choose your area
• Settle for the Google phrases and situations
• Your inserted SIM card is acknowledged

Now you possibly can import your backup from the previous smartphone—when you’ve got one—by connecting your previous and new smartphone with a USB cable. You can be requested on your password on the previous smartphone for verification and affirmation. Simply rapidly tick which information you need to switch out of your previous smartphone to the brand new one—Google purposes such because the calendar and contacts can be synchronized robotically.

Choose which varieties of information needs to be copied to the brand new cellphone:

• Apps.
• Contacts.
• Images & movies,
• Music & different audio.
• Messages (SMS, MMS, RCS).
• Machine settings (together with Wi-Fi passwords).
• Name historical past.

Since information can be copied between the 2 telephones, you will not want a mobile or Wi-Fi connection throughout this stage.

Because the file switch occurs within the background, the brand new cellphone will ask you for extra settings:

Messengers corresponding to WhatsApp, Sign, or Telegram are put in on most smartphone. In fact, you additionally need to get this information onto your new smartphone. Right here too, it’s nonetheless a high precedence that your unique messenger continues to be put in on the previous smartphone so as to create the most recent backup now.

The messenger app Sign additionally means that you can create a backup. To do that, proceed as follows:

• Go to your profile image within the app on the previous smartphone.
• Open the Settings.
• Go to Account.
• Faucet Switch account.
• Then faucet Proceed on each gadgets.

And that is it already.

Backing up with Telegram is far simpler than with WhatsApp or Sign—as a result of there is no such thing as a backup. The messenger saves all of your content material within the cloud. So in the event you log in once more in your new smartphone together with your previous quantity, all of your contacts, chats, images, movies, and recordsdata can be again.

The massive exception is the “secret chats”. In line with Telegram, these are linked to the system and can’t be transferred. It’s also potential to export information by way of the Home windows PC and the Telegram app. As beforehand talked about, this isn’t crucial, however higher secure than sorry. To do that within the PC model, go to the hamburger menu (three dashes) and choose

• Settings.
• Select Superior.
• Choose Export information.

And also you’re executed.

Your smartphone might be consistently linked to the web. This implies it’s theoretically at all times weak. Shield your self by frequently putting in the working system updates provided by your producer. Some producers—corresponding to Google or Samsung—present these on a month-to-month foundation.

This implies you’ll in all probability be confronted with updates shortly after establishing your new smartphone. Set up them proper as much as the final one to shut the most recent safety gaps. Particularly with Android smartphones which were available on the market for some time, this may take a while—take your time.

This text was revised in December 2024. Older feedback have been stored and should seem out of context.