Transfer data from an Android phone to a Pixel

You lot can copy data, like texts, photos, music, contacts, calendars, and apps. Go tips on how to use your Pixel telephone.

Tap here to see an interactive tutorial

Step 1: Items you lot 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 card
  • Text messages
  • Most phone settings (varies by phone and Android version)
  • Multimedia in text messages
  • Wallpaper
  • Phone call history

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

  • Email
  • Contacts
  • Calendar events
  • Any other information associated with your Google Account

Important: Contacts and calendars that you copy to your Pixel phone sync and upload to your Google Account online. Info associated with your Google Account syncs when you lot sign in to your account on your Pixel phone.

What won't re-create 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 telephone settings (varies past phone and Android version)

Footstep ii: Get ready to copy

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

Step three: Re-create your data

You can copy data to your new Pixel phone with:

  • A cloud backup
  • Your one-time telephone with a cable (recommended)
  • A Wi-Fi connectedness (Pixel 6 & Pixel six Pro merely)

Copy data from a cloud backup

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap Start.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or your mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Copy Apps & Data," tap Side by side.
  3. When asked to "Utilize your old device," tap Can't use old telephone.
  4. Follow the on-screen steps to log in to your Google Account and access your fill-in.

Copy information from your old phone with a cable (recommended)

  1. On your Pixel phone:
    • Tap Offset.
    • Connect to a Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier.
  2. When asked to "Copy Apps & Information," tap Next and then Copy your data.
  3. When asked to "Utilize your former device", tapAdjacent.
  4. Turn on and unlock your current telephone.
  5. Plug one finish of a cable into your current telephone.
  6. Plug the cablevision'due south other end into your Pixel phone 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 telephone, you'll encounter a list of your information.
    • To copy all your data, tap Copy.
    • To re-create only some information:
      • Turn off what you don't want.
      • Tap Copy.
  10. When your transfer is washed, you can utilize your telephone.

Copy data with Wi-Fi (Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro only)

Of import: You tin can only transfer data with Wi-Fi if your electric current device is an Android device running Android five or later and your new device is a Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Pro.

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

Troubleshoot copying your data

  • If y'all didn't transfer your information when y'all showtime turned on your phone, larn how to return to setup.
  • If something goes incorrect with copying during setup, learn what to cheque.
  • If you lot tin can't use your old phone, or don't have a cable that fits, learn other ways to motion your information.

Related resource

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

Was this helpful?

How can nosotros improve information technology?