Apple Releases iPhone Transition Guide for Former Android Users

It's commonly thought that a significant number of people use Android-powered devices over iPhones on account of the larger screens on handsets made by Samsung and other companies; Apple hopes it can win them back with the release of the iPhone 6. To that end (and a day ahead of the public release of iOS 8), the company today released a guide for former Android users that teaches them how to migrate their data to their new, larger iPhones.

Some of the information is rather straightforward, such as the way it describes adding existing e-mail accounts to an iPhone. Somewhat surprisingly, the guide recommends a third-party app like Copy My Data for help in migrating information such as photos, calendars, and contacts.

Apple also takes the opportunity to play up its iCloud suite of apps, suggesting that users can open various documents and spreadsheets from other programs via its own Pages, Keynote, and Numbers apps (and via their iCloud counterparts). In addition, the document contains information on how to transfer photos, videos, books, and music to a new iPhone with the help of iTunes and Android File Transfer on either a Mac or PC.

Apple CEO Tim Cook certainly thinks the upcoming iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will see massive adoption rates from former Android users; indeed, in a recent Wall Street Journal interview, he called upcoming iPhone 6 "the mother of all upgrades." The phones themselves will start arriving in stores this Friday, September 19.

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