App Intro: Apple’s “Move to iOS” App For Android

A new app to enable Android users to transfer their data securely from Android to iPhone or iPad

Apple just introduced a new app in the Google Play Store called Move to iOS, along with the iOS 9 announcements this year.

Prior to this launch, Apple was spotted working on Android Music for Google’s very own OS, Android. Although Apple is still working on the same, in the meanwhile it is trying to pull away the users from Android.

“Move to iOS transfers your data securely from Android to iPhone or iPad”, is the app description in the Play Store.

The initiative taken by Apple covers all the essentials: Contacts, Email accounts, Photos and Videos, Web Bookmarks, Message History, and Calendars.

Given that personal data has become an integral part in the life of every smartphone user, and is an important factor that prevents the impatient users from switching their devices across different OS, this strategy might enable Apple draw a lot of Android users to their side of the fence, and boost their ever growing market share.

Apple has used a different technology for transferring all the data from an Android phone to iPhone, where, instead of simply syncing all the data over the cloud, it uses a private Wi-Fi network for the exchange. The user needs to set up a private Wi-Fi network on their iPhone and find the Android device, then request for a security code which when correctly entered, moves all the data and organizes it in the specific places on the iOS device.

The Move to iOS app was unveiled in advance of the launch of two new flagship phones by Apple. The app is compatible with the previous versions of the iPhone, which could mean that the team at Apple are aiming for Android users to move to their flagship introductions or even their erstwhile models.

In spite of the other alternatives available for data transfer across the two devices, this is a pretty simple and no fuss way adopted by Apple to avoid conflict between the different ecosystems and while we were writing this article, they have updated the app to version 1.59.1.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.