We have been discussing the plans you have for some time now. Google to launch an app for the change from iOS to Android It is done more easily in the same way that Apple has already launched its app for the opposite process. New information about the app that would be called “Switch to Android”, reveals Google's intention that your iCloud data be migrated (in case each user wanted it that way) to Google Photos.
In the middle of last year the news was already echoed that Google was working on an exclusive application for iOS that would make it much easier to change all the information from an iOS device (either iPhone or iPad) to an Android device (smartphone or tablet) to favor and facilitate the change of terminals in the users. In this way, it would face the app launched by Apple to "Go to iOS" on Android terminals.
The app will connect your old iOS device and your new Android device via Wi-Fi connectivity of both to copy data directly. In this way, it will be easier than having to make a copy of your data in Google Drive and restore it on the Android device (Current change method). It would work something like when we change iOS devices, we place them next to each other and all the data is directly transferred, but between two different ecosystems.
The "Switch to Android" or "Switch to Android" app will be able to, according to the latest information, not only copy our contacts, messages and even apps between both devices but it could also copy the information from iCloud. Until now, the copy of contacts, messages, etc. it would be made only from the information saved locally on the iOS devices. In this way, «Switch to Android» would allow us to copy all the photos and videos that we have stored in iCloud to Google Photos. However, it's not yet clear if the app will be able to speed up this migration to Google Photos by working directly with your iCloud data, or if the traditional transfer that takes several days will continue.
This is undoubtedly good news for those users who want to switch to Android from iOS since it will be able to greatly facilitate their switching experience as well as creating a "common" ecosystem in which we would already have information transfer between iOS and Android in a simple way and that would allow each one to use the device that best suits them at all times.
