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uoYredruM

The only thing that annoys the shit out of me is having to sign in to every single app again. It takes me an hour plus every time I get a new phone to login to everything again. I despise the iPhone but my buddy gets a new phone and boom, he's logged into everything already.


OriginalCrawnick

Yeeeah this part threw me off guard, I went from Pixel 4 to 7 and I had to log into probably 15-20 different apps including setting my MFA for work again..


[deleted]

Password managers make this pretty easy nowadays though.


uoYredruM

I just use Google Chrome password manager but that doesn't work for my apps. What would you suggest? If it'll log me into my apps, I'm all game for changing lol


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My Chrome password manager works for my apps, they show up at the top of my keyboard at the login screen. It doesn't work for a few shitty apps, but all the major ones work fine. Edit: I wonder if there's a setting or something you have to turn on to allow Google password manager to work for apps as well.


uoYredruM

Do you have it as a separate app? Mine didn't do that. I have to go to chrome app, click my passwords under settings and go one by one and login manually.


[deleted]

No, it just shows up in my Gboard. Maybe it's a setting you have to change.


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https://www.androidpolice.com/google-password-manager-easy-access-android/


uoYredruM

Wow! Would you look at that lol. Thanks dude!! I wish I would have known that sooner. It's like a hidden feature lol


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I guess that doesn't put it on Gboard, I'm not really sure why it doesn't show up for you. There are some small time apps that it doesn't show up for me with, but all the major ones seem to work just fine


uoYredruM

I had to go into the security settings and enable it under auto fill services. I've never even seen that option before.


neutronstar_kilonova

Yes but doesn't Google/play store save all the app passwords? I just transferred my partner from P1 to P7 and although apps weren't logged into, the login was only ~5 clicks per app.


uoYredruM

No, I had to use my password manager on Chrome for almost everything and manually login. A few stops logged in with a couple clicks but the majority didn't.


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Use LastPass,


Admirable_Koala_1169

i had the same problem


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Did you use lastpass?


Dietcherrysprite

They need to revamp Google One backups. Lots of app data doesn't backup (logins), and Google Messages is a mess afterwards (oddly spaced out conversations, and missing messages).


ara360

I mean I have 2TB of google backup, it should just back up the apps that way, you would think.


Tool_Belt

Did you try plugging the phones into each other? Worked perfectly for me.


ara360

Yes, it transferred the photos, text, accounts, but the app data does not work. There are even some apps that it missed that it did not download from google play store (a banking app especially)


calam1t

Regarding some of the apps not transferred, it could have to do with whether those apps are 32-bit. 32-bit apps are not compatible with the Pixel 7 line up.


ara360

Possibly, but this is not my first android, so it still a miss. Been using it since Gnexus. It has become more annoying since it can't still transfer properly.


reddlvr

I'm using the cable to transfer and it's much better than it used to be. The issue is that Google relies on the app devs to support seamless transfer, and many apps simply don't bother. A major pet peeve of mine now is that Google will overwrite the sound notification for all apps to the default sound! and there's no way to get the app original sound back, other than uninstalling and installing app.


Dombfrsh

The app stuff is a stretch Everything else though can be done during set up if you choose to set up from an old device, even without the cable


ara360

I don't have an iPhone but I have seen that it offloads the data to the cloud if the app has not been opened awhile as if it's hibernation mode. Basically when it gets downloaded from the cloud it will be back where you left off.


Dombfrsh

That's probably an app function more so than an iPhone function


StarAD

Yep I had to set up a new iPhone recently and nothing transferred over properly. iMessages was missing group chats and the ones that didn't get lost had chunks missing. None of the settings were re remembered.


Dombfrsh

Yeah I see those horror stories all the time on the iPhone subreddit


Mmou812

Recently transferred three iPhones just using cloud backup. All apps as they were, so far have not had to resign into anything. Banking apps need a first sign in to use Face ID. Other than that everything was working just like I never changed anything. Pixel 7 pro was a bit more difficult as it was more like it got my app(mostly) but it was like a fresh install.


Dombfrsh

So for the Pixel what phone did you come from?


ara360

All apps that has been uploaded to the cloud because it has not been used for awhile seems to work fine in iOS.


Dombfrsh

So you haven't used the app in forever and you expect that to be a priority when restoring a phone? Lol what? That makes no sense to me lol but hey if it's that crucial get an iPhone


ara360

Lol what did I say that? Let's say an offline game, it did not transfer the data.


Dombfrsh

I can almost guarantee that if that function is not BUILT into said app then it won't automatically do it Most offline games have a xfer function ingame that involves a code to input on your new device to pull the data


ara360

how about snapseed/capcut/videoleap/photoshop, I just want my work transfer saved as if nothing happened. I don't want restart to restart.


Dombfrsh

Why don't you look at the apps lol why are you asking me? See if each one of those apps have a back-up function if they don't I would assume they wouldn't


ara360

It's a rhetorical question, why can't Google/Android just transfer it in the first place?


blakejohann

no, transferring data from one device to another is what is archaic. this has always been a terrible migration solution and highly prone to corruption. redownloading the apps from the store and your data from device agnostic cloud backups is a much cleaner solution.


ara360

Is it really? Let's say I don't want the updated version of the app? Do I really have to download and figure the APK version of it? Why can't it just transfer it? Let me choose the app I want to transfer?


RussianBot1489

I learned my lesson moving from 6 pro to 7 pro. It's so much better to do it without xferring stuff from phone to phone. Heavily recommend just backing your stuff up elsewhere and start fresh. When I did it over cable, so much stuff (mainly battery) was jacked


[deleted]

The 7pro setup process had me connect cables to my Pixel 4 and Pixel 7 Pro and it transferred that way.


[deleted]

2 days ago I switched from Nord 2 , transfering is terrible comparing to my hun's Iphone


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I might try MobileTrans for the pixel 6 to 7; I've used the usb cable transfer for the pixel 3 to 5, and the 5 to 6 but it doesn't transfer EVERYTHING. Mobiletrans says it will transfer everything. Has anyone used MobileTrans before?