While the process has improved over the years, you must manually fetch apps, music, books, and PDFs. (This isn’t unique to Apple and Google, of course — just ask anyone attempting to migrate from the ever-increasingly expensive Microsoft 365 suite to Google Workspace for fresh tales of woe.)
Now being tested
What’s new, or seems to be, is that Apple and Google have collaborated to develop a far more seamless switching experience. This should facilitate moving photos, videos, bookmarks, and other core information. We must hope that the system will also shift passwords and passkeys between both platforms, though I imagine there are significant security obstacles that must be overcome to achieve that.
Google has begun testing the migration tool in a new Android Canary build for its Pixel devices. Apple reportedly intends to introduce support for the tools on iPhones in a future iOS 26 point upgrade, though it isn’t visible in the current testing builds.
