Transfer data from an Android phone to a Pixel

You can re-create data, similar texts, photos, music, contacts, calendars, and apps. Get tips on how to use your Pixel phone.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Footstep ane: Items y'all can re-create to your Pixel

What copies during setup

You can copy these during setup:

  • Apps and app data
  • Music, photos, and videos
  • Google Accounts
  • Contacts stored on your phone or a SIM carte du jour
  • Text messages
  • Most telephone settings (varies by phone and Android version)
  • Multimedia in text letters
  • Wallpaper
  • Telephone call history

You'll see these when you sign in to your Google Account on your Pixel phone:

  • Email
  • Contacts
  • Agenda events
  • Whatsoever other information associated with your Google Account

Of import: Contacts and calendars that yous copy to your Pixel phone sync and upload to your Google Account online. Info associated with your Google Account syncs when y'all sign in to your business relationship on your Pixel phone.

What won't copy during setup

  • Downloads, like PDF files
  • Photos, videos, and music stored in hidden folders
  • Apps that aren't from the Google Play Store
  • Information from apps that don't use Android backup
  • Accounts other than Google Accounts and their information
  • Contacts and calendars synced to services other than Google
  • Ringtones
  • Certain phone settings (varies by phone and Android version)

Pace 2: Get ready to copy

  1. Charge both phones.
  2. On your electric current phone, install all available updates. Learn how to update Android.
  3. Find what you'll need.See what comes with your Pixel phone.
    • A cablevision that works with your current telephone, like the cable you lot use to charge it.
    • Your Quick Switch Adapter, if your current phone or cable has a connectedness other than USB-C.
    • Your SIM card and SIM menu insertion tool, unless Google Fi is your mobile carrier and you're using eSIM.
  4. On your Pixel phone:
    1. Plough on your Pixel telephone.
    2. Insert your SIM card. Larn how to get a SIM card and insert it.
    3. You lot'll see a Start button. If you don't meet "Start," larn how to return to setup.

Stride iii: Re-create your data

You lot can copy information to your new Pixel phone with:

  • A deject backup
  • Your one-time phone with a cable (recommended)
  • A Wi-Fi connection (Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro merely)

Re-create data from a cloud backup

  1. On your Pixel telephone:
    • Tap First.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or your mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Re-create Apps & Data," tap Next.
  3. When asked to "Use your quondam device," tap Can't use onetime phone.
  4. Follow the on-screen steps to log in to your Google Account and access your backup.

Copy data from your onetime phone with a cable (recommended)

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap First.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Copy Apps & Data," tap Next and then Copy your data.
  3. When asked to "Use your old device", tapAdjacent.
  4. Plough on and unlock your current phone.
  5. Plug 1 cease of a cable into your current phone.
  6. Plug the cable'southward other end into your Pixel telephone or into the Quick Switch Adapter and plug the adapter into your Pixel phone.
  7. On your current telephone, tap Copy.
  8. Follow the on-screen instructions.
  9. On your Pixel phone, you lot'll see a list of your data.
    • To re-create all your information, tap Copy.
    • To re-create only some data:
      • Turn off what you lot don't want.
      • Tap Copy.
  10. When your transfer is washed, you can use your phone.

Copy data with Wi-Fi (Pixel vi & Pixel vi Pro only)

Important: You lot can only transfer data with Wi-Fi if your current device is an Android device running Android five or later on and your new device is a Pixel half-dozen or Pixel 6 Pro.

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap Kickoff.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Re-create Apps & Data," tap Adjacent and then Re-create your data.
  3. When asked to "Use your onetime device," tap Next.
  4. When asked to "Find your old phone's cable," tap No cable?.
  5. In the notification, tap Ok.
  6. Plough on and unlock your current phone.
  7. On your current phone, open the notification to set up your new telephone.
  8. On your Pixel phone, you'll get a list of your information.
    • To copy all your information, tap Copy.
    • To copy only some information:
      • Turn off what you don't want.
      • Tap Copy.
  9. When your transfer is done, you lot can apply your phone.

Troubleshoot copying your data

  • 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 lot can't use your old telephone, or don't have a cablevision that fits, acquire other ways to move your data.

Related resources

  • Can't transfer data to new Pixel phone
  • Customize your phone
  • Explore your phone

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