Apple built the app, which is called “Move to iOS“, and made it available for free in Google Play where it’s getting hammered by user reviews.
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Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, joked at Apple’s event last week the creation of the app was just the “neighborly thing to do”. The app purports to make it a cinch to transfer contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, web bookmarks, mail accounts, and calendars over to iOS.
Two can of course play that game.
“And the one app on the Android side that did some sort of encryption, embedded the keys to the encryption in the source code, so you could go ahead and decrypt the data anyway”, he said. Cook also didn’t concede any promotional motivations for forcing the presence of certain apps, denying that the key motivator is to “suck up real estate; we’re not motivated to do that”.
Cook also talked about iOS 9, which will feature a voice-activated Siri, during his Buzzfeed interview.
Dubbed move to iOS it’s designed to bring Android users into Apple’s walled garden of delights and hope that they will be trapped by the reality distortion field. Apple has already grown in the first-time user market; however, its decision to target switchers and make it easier for users to switch via an application will undoubtedly fuel further growth.
On your device, open the Settings app, select iCloud, and tap Backup.
Hilarity aside, the new iOS 9 is suppose to extend battery life and it also added a power saving mode to conserve battery when you’re about to run out. Older iPads haven’t gotten such features; the guess is that new models, such as the larger iPad Pro, will.
The operating system update for Apple Watch was supposed to be released at the same time as the new iOS update, according to The Irish Times.
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iOS 8 came with a file size of 4.58 gigabytes and many users who have devices with 16GB of internal memory complained that the update took up too much memory.
