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Android says that when you switch from iPhone to Android, your favorite apps, photos and chats can come too… but do they really? How easy is it to migrate your digital life from Apple to Android? CNET video producer Carly Marsh swapped her iPhone 12 Mini for a Motorola Razr 2025 to find out.

00:00 Today I switch from Apple to Android
00:17 Android’s promises
00:34 Why having an iPhone is kind of culty
00:54 Why I’m ditching my iPhone for an Android Razr phone
01:20 Telling my family I’m getting rid of my iPhone
01:28 A warning from an iPhone user married to an Android user
02:06 Transferring iCloud data to Google One
02:29 Transferring local data between iPhone 12 Mini and Motorola Razr 2025
03:08 Priority things to get set up on my new Android phone
04:20 My new life as an Android user
05:02 Switching to Android is a social nightmare
05:09 Group chats with iPhones shatter
05:53 Transferring iMessages and texts to an Android Phone
06:38 How my Apple apps migrated over to Android
06:50 Voice memos appear in Google Files without labels
07:15 Notes have to be manually copied and exported from the Apple Notes App to Google Keep
07:25 Premium app subscriptions transferred between Apple App Store and Google Play
08:00 Apple’s messy transfer of my iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos
08:57 Feeling isolated with an Android

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