It will soon be easier than ever for Android apps to stay signed in on a new phone

Transferring your information from your aged Android device to a caller 1 volition soon beryllium little daunting, thanks to “Restore Credentials,” a caller developer diagnostic for Android which tin keep you logged into your apps erstwhile you marque the switch. While immoderate apps already did this, Google is making it easier for developers to see this acquisition by implementing a “restore key” that automatically transfers to the caller telephone and logs you backmost into the app.

The alteration should assistance marque going from 1 Android telephone to different much similar upgrading an iPhone. Apple users who determination from 1 iPhone to different are utilized to having everything from email accounts to app credentials transportation to the caller phone, but it hasn’t ever been truthful seamless for Android users.

Verge smartphone reviewer Allison Johnson says “This is large quality for me, personally.”

Restore Credentials requires little enactment than the erstwhile attack connected Android, and tin automatically cheque if a reconstruct cardinal is disposable and log you backmost successful astatine the archetypal app launch. A reconstruct cardinal is simply a nationalist cardinal that uses existing passkey infrastructure to determination astir your credentials.

Restore keys tin besides beryllium backed up to the cloud, though developers tin opt out. For that reason, transferring straight from instrumentality to instrumentality volition still likely beryllium much thorough than restoring from the cloud, arsenic is the lawsuit with Apple devices today. Notably, Google says reconstruct keys bash not transportation if you delete an app and reinstall it.