{"id":2323,"date":"2026-02-12T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/ios-26-3-makes-it-easier-to-switch-to-android\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:08","slug":"ios-26-3-makes-it-easier-to-switch-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/ios-26-3-makes-it-easier-to-switch-to-android\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An iPhone 17 held up showing a lock screen with notifications\" data-caption=\"iPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/257946_iPhone_17_AKrales_0063.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tiPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">On Wednesday, Apple released its latest iOS 26 update, which includes a new process for switching from an iPhone to an Android phone, as previously reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/11\/hands-on-ios-26-3-changes-and-features-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>9to5Mac<\/em><\/a>. The updated transferring tool can move over data like apps, photos, messages, and even a user&rsquo;s phone number by sitting the two phones side by side. Previously, users typically needed to either download <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&amp;hl=en_US\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/android-switch\/id6449987166\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/android-switch\/id6449987166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&rsquo;s<\/a> data transfer apps on each device or manually copy all their apps and data over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">iPhone users in the EU also now have an option for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/784477\/apple-ios-26-beta-third-party-smartwatch-notifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab\u00a0notification forwarding\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> with third-party wearables in iOS 26.3. This update allows users to view the full contents of noti \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/877587\/ios-26-3-released-transfer-to-android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}