Pics, contacts, chats: Apps for switching between iOS and Android

Google offers the Switch to Android tool in Apple's App Store, which allows you to transfer photos, videos, messages, contacts and appointments from an iPhone to a new Android device. — dpa

BERLIN: If you switch from an iPhone to an Android smartphone or vice versa you don't want to lose all your precious data such as photos and chats in the process.

Fortunately there are apps for both operating systems that help to make it a fairly seamless transfer.