You can copy your iPhone data, like texts, photos, music, contacts, apps, and calendars to a Pixel phone. Get tips on how to use your phone.
Step 1: Items you can copy to your Pixel
What copies during setup- Texts and iMessages
- Phone and iCloud contacts and calendars
- Photos and videos saved on your iPhone
- Apps
Tip: Many free iPhone apps have Android versions. You automatically get the Android versions from Google Play (where available) when you set up your Pixel. - Photos, videos, and other media on iMessages
- Most music
Important: Music with iTunes Digital Rights Management protection won't transfer. Music downloaded from Google Play doesn’t transfer either.
Learn how to download your Google Play music again after setup. - Wallpaper
- Call history
Important: Contacts and calendars that you copy to your Pixel phone sync and upload to your Google Account online. Info associated with your Google Account syncs when you sign in to your account on your Pixel phone.
- App data
- Paid apps
- Free apps not matched on Google Play
- In-app purchases
- Photos where an original isn’t stored on your iPhone
Tip: When you turn on Optimize Storage, original photos are in iCloud and not on your iPhone. Lower resolution versions of your photos won't copy, even if they're stored on your iPhone. - Photos, videos, documents, and other files stored in iCloud. Learn how to request a transfer of iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos.
- Phone settings, like Wi-Fi passwords
- Music with iTunes Digital Rights Management protection
- Accounts other than Google Accounts and their data
- Contacts and calendars synced to services other than Google or iCloud
- Bookmarks from Safari
- Some third-party chat app data, like your WhatsApp history
Step 2: Get ready to copy
- Charge both of your phones.
- Find what you need. Learn what comes with your phone.
- The Quick Switch Adapter
- A cable that works with your iPhone, like the one you use to charge
- Your SIM card and SIM card insertion tool, unless Google Fi is your mobile carrier and you have an eSIM
- On your iPhone:
- Turn off iMessage and Facetime. Learn how to turn off iMessage.
- If an organization, like a business or school, manages your iPhone, it can limit your transfer. Learn what you can do.
- On your Pixel phone:
- Turn on your Pixel.
- Insert your SIM card into your phone. Learn how to get a SIM card and insert it.
- A “Start” button appears on screen. If you don't see "Start," learn how to return to setup.
Step 3: Copy your data
- On your Pixel phone:
- Turn on and unlock your iPhone.
- Plug one end of a cable into your iPhone, and the other into the Quick Switch Adapter. Plug the Quick Switch Adapter into your Pixel phone.
- On your iPhone, tap Trust.
- On your Pixel phone, sign in to your Google Account.
- To check whether you have an account, enter your email address.
- If you don't have an account, make an account.
- On your Pixel screen, review a list of your data.
- To copy all your data, tap Copy.
- To copy only some data, first turn off what you don't want. Then, tap Copy.
- If you don't want some apps, tap Apps. Turn off the apps you don't want.
Tip: You can get the Android versions of many iPhone apps. You don't copy the iPhone apps.
- When the transfer is done, you get a summary of data copied.
Copy data from your iPhone | Pixel
Fix issues with data transfer
If you want to transfer data or think you’re missing data, follow the troubleshooting steps below.
- If you didn't transfer your data when you first turned on your phone, learn how to return to setup.
- If something goes wrong with copying during setup, learn what to check.
- If you don't have your iPhone or a cable that fits, learn how to move your data after setup.
- Learn how to request a transfer of iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos.
- View an interactive tutorial on how to copy data after initial setup.