OnePlus Launches 'Switch' App to Help Migrate Data from Your Old Android Phone

If you bought yourself a shiny new OnePlus smartphone this holiday season, and so hither's a neat footling app to solve your woes of migrating from your old Android.

Meet OnePlus Switch, an app that has merely one job – to help you motion your data from your old Android device to your new OnePlus smartphone.

Telephone migration apps aren't new, and a handful of OEMs already have one. Samsung has "Samsung Smart Switch Mobile," Google's Pixel phones come with "Quick Switch Adapter," and in fact, Google has been offer a bones device backup/restore tool as office of Google Play Services for years now. Also, Apple's very first awarding on the Play Store was actually Move to iOS.

The new OnePlus Switch app is available on Google Play Store, and information technology tin be installed on any Android device running Lollipop (5.0) or higher.And then, sadly if you're coming from an Apple iPhone, then y'all're out of luck. Obviously, yous volition need a OnePlus telephone at the receiving finish. At the moment, the OnePlus Switch application can transfer contacts, messages, telephone call logs, calendar, photos, videos, sound, etc. The app tin also transfer applications, simply you lot can't motility awarding data from one phone to another.

OnePlus Launches 'Switch' App to Help Migrate Data from Your Old Android Phone The application appears to be quite straightforward as well. In one case yous have it installed, the phones will connect via Wi-Fi, and you tin select the data yous desire to motility. The app will show you the elapsing of the process along with a fun little animation while the migration is in progress.

Co-ordinate to the visitor, the app is withal in beta correct now, with a stable version expected past mid-January. That being said, if you're looking to buy a new OnePlus smartphone, then we'd suggest you to wait till the company debuts the Lava Ruby-red variant in India, later this month.