Google and Apple are collaborating on making switching between their ecosystems easier

According to a new report, Google and Apple are collaborating on making switching between their respective mobile operating systems easier than ever before. The first fruit of this labor is to be found in the latest Android Canary build, which went live today.

This is intended for developers only, and it will take a while until the improved switching functionality arrives in an Android Beta, not to mention a stable version, but the work is now being done, so it's on the way.

For its part, Apple will incorporate the feature in a future iOS 26 release. We should apparently expect more data types than ever to be transferable from Android to iOS and vice versa. More functionality will be added too.

So far, to move from iOS to Android you used the Android Switch app, while to go from Android to iOS you got the Move to iOS app. But this new functionality that will be baked into both operating systems will make things much smoother. Here's hoping it doesn't take too long to launch.

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