UPDATED 07:45 EDT / OCTOBER 22 2014

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Google’s Switch tells you exactly how to move from iOS to Android

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Google has launched Switch, a website that tells you everything you need to know about switching from Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad to an Android-based device.

The site is basically a manual that tells people how to move everything from photos, music and contacts across to Android. It explains how to set up your email and messaging and how you go about finding all your apps and downloading new ones. The comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide is obviously filled with references to Google apps and services. They recommend you use Google+ Photos to move all your pictures from your iPad and iPhone onto an Android device. They also instruct you to import your iCloud contacts into Gmail. In addition they recommend you disable iMessage in order to avoid having any issues receiving SMS and MMS messages once you have made the switch to Android.

Apple launched their own instructional guide last month. Their support site provides users all the information they need to make the switch to iPhone.

Apple and Google have been battling it out over the last several years in an attempt to gain more customers. In a report released last month by research firm ComScore, Google’s Android has 51.5 percent share of the US market, while Apple has 42.4 percent.


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