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Google Rebrands Switcher App to Lure iPhone Users to Android

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Google today revamped its Switch to Android app for the iPhone and iPad, introducing a streamlined interface, a new icon, and changing the name to Android Switch as part of a rebranding effort to lure new iPhone users.

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The app is designed to make it easy for iPhone users to swap over to an Android-based device like a Google Pixel. It can transfer contacts, calendar events, photos, and videos, and it includes reminders to turn off iMessage to swap to RCS/SMS.

Google has also changed some of the wording on its Switch to Android website to reflect the new app name. The Switch to Android site walks through some of the common concerns that iPhone users might have about switching platforms, such as texting, sharing files, making video calls, and transitioning accessories.

With ‌RCS‌, Google says Android users can text iPhone users with no issues, and the company recommends Google Meet as an alternative to FaceTime. There's no Android to iPhone replacement for AirDrop, but Google says that Quick Share can be used to share files with Android, ChromeOS, and Windows PC devices.

Aside from design updates and a new look for the app, the basic functionality of the Android Switch app appears to be the same as before.

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Top Rated Comments

SanderEvers Avatar
SanderEvers
20 months ago
Why would anyone want to switch to Android?
Score: 41 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Heindijs Avatar
Heindijs
20 months ago

Why would anyone want to switch to Android?

Surely an app update will be the reason I switch to the crappy Android.
God, you people are predictable and tiring. Aren't we all adults here.
Score: 36 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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poematik13
20 months ago
Why would an iOS user downgrade to android? Insane.

The 3rd party apps are worse, their app store is full of malware, the security is worse, the update support is worse, the hardware and software are mismatched, the phones ship with tons of OEM and carrier bloatware, and the devices have zero resale value/equity. But they still charge you iphone prices for something that is not and never will be an iphone-tier product
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Ivander Avatar
Ivander
20 months ago
Surely an app update will be the reason I switch to the crappy Android.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Dr McKay
20 months ago

God, you people are predictable and tiring. Aren't we all adults here.
Every time I read an utterly inane comment like theirs, I find it much easier to remind myself that there are a lot of literal children on the internet, tell yourself that a 12-year-old wrote those comments and in 10 years time they'll look back on how they used to be as a person and physically recoil with embarrassment.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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nt5672
20 months ago

Why would anyone want to switch to Android?
So the owner actually has control of the phone. While the defaults heavily favor Google selling everything it knows about the Android phone owner, the actual Android settings can be made to make the phone more secure than Apple's walled garden.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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