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 And for these upgrading to a brand new Android from an outdated one, there’s now an categorical setup possibility, which transfers solely the data that’s saved on the gadget and not one of the stuff you have already backed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