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Last updated: March 8th, 2024 at 04:18 UTC+01:00

Switching between platforms is never easy, but the EU (European Union) is trying to make things easier to promote competition and stop monopolies. To comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple is making switching data from an iPhone to an Android phone easier.

This means you can easily switch your data from an iPhone to a Galaxy device in the future.

Apple is developing solutions for easier data transfer from iPhone to Android

As a part of its DMA Compliance Report, Apple has revealed in its Non-Confidential Summary that it is making changes to iOS to improve data portability between iOS and “different operating systems.” Apple plans to bring this change sometime in the fall of 2025. This document was first discovered by The Verge, revealing that Apple is making other changes to comply with the EU's DMA, which comes into effect this week.

The company won't make a tool of its own, but other operating system builders can use tools provided by Apple to extract user data and build their own tools.

Apple iOS App Store Safari Data Transfer EU DMA

Google currently offers a Switch to Android app that helps transfer data, including contacts, free apps, notes, photos, text messages, and videos. However, it doesn't support the transfer of alarms, documents, call logs, eSIMs, files, passwords, wallpapers, and web browser bookmarks. Hopefully, the upcoming iOS change will help transfer those types of user data as well.

Samsung could use those upcoming iOS improvements to improve Smart Switch

From what we understand, Apple could release a standard way (or APIs) that other brands can use to develop data transfer tools. We expect Samsung to use those improvements to improve the Smart Switch app for data transfer.

Some of Apple's solutions to improve data portability include a “browser switching solution” to transfer data between web browsers on the same device. This feature will be available in late 2024 or early 2025. By March 2025, it will also be possible to change the default navigation system for iPhones in the EU.

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