Android: how to transfer your apps and settings to a new smartphone

you wonder how transfer your data to your new Android smartphone ? In this tutorial, we suggest doing it this way: tools are already at hand, without installing anything. Your Google account, if configured correctly, will normally sync all your apps, contacts and other data.

Some smartphones also have the ability to transfer everything quickly with the NFC Tap & Go feature. The only problem with this method is that both smartphones must be compatible with NFC technology.

How to transfer your apps and settings between two NFC Tap & Go enabled smartphones?

On your “old” smartphone:

1. Unlock the phone and check the settings. NFC enabled
2. When setting up the new smartphone, select . Tap and Go
3. Get closer to two smartphones
4. Verify data transfer on old smartphone

A message will appear when the data transfer is complete. This is the fastest method in this tutorial. It is enough that both terminals are equipped with NFC. Such is the case with the latest Android smartphones on the market.

How to transfer your apps and settings with Google Drive?

On your old Android smartphone:

1. Check if the smartphone is connected to a network. google account and connected via WiFi
2. enter inside Settings > System > Backup and Sync
3. enable Backup to Google Drive if not already done
4. Check that everything in the list, especially people, is checked.
5. Upload your photos to: Google Photos if they are not already there
6. Copy your personal files to: google drive

Warning : depending on the amount of data and the speed of your internet connection, transfer to the cloud can take up to several hours. Before starting a transfer, we invite you to connect to a WiFi network. Better to avoid emptying your 4G data envelope.

On your new smartphone:

1. your link google account to your new smartphone during installation.
2. Follow the onscreen instructions to restore your backup, contacts, settings and apps.
3. You can access your photos from the app. Google Photos and the rest of your personal files google drive

How to transfer SMS, MMS and other useful tutorials

If the above methods don’t work, here are a few other tutorials that can help you transfer the data:

• How to transfer your SMS and MMS to a new Android smartphone: to find your SMS and MMS like on your old smartphone
• How to install or uninstall a .APK app on Android: to transfer certain installed apps from Play Store
• How to delete all data on your smartphone: If you want to resell your old smartphone
• Data Transfer Best Practices
• How to recover accidentally deleted data on Android

You can also check out our more detailed method to backup all files on your Android smartphone. did you succeed? Are you facing difficulties? Feel free to share your feedback in the comments. We will update this tutorial to improve it.