Android to iPhone
Quick answers
- How do I move my accounts from Android to iPhone?
- Show each account's QR code on the Android phone and scan it in TOTP Authenticator on the new iPhone. It's free and works account by account. Cloud Sync doesn't help here, since it uses Google Drive on Android and iCloud on iOS separately.
The reliable free way to move from Android to iPhone is per-account QR: show each account's QR on your Android phone and scan it in TOTP Authenticator on the new iPhone. Cloud Sync can't carry accounts across on its own, because iOS uses iCloud and Android uses Google Drive.
Symptom
"How do I move my accounts from Android to iPhone?"
Why this happens
Cloud Sync uses each platform's own cloud service (iCloud on iOS, Google Drive on Android), so it only syncs within a platform, not across. You have two ways across: an offline backup file made on one platform restores on the other, or you can move accounts one at a time with each account's QR code. Both are free.
Fix
- Install TOTP Authenticator on the new iPhone.
- On the Android phone, open an account and show its QR code.
- On the iPhone, tap Add → Scan QR and scan it.
The old phone shows the account QR. The new phone scans it. - Verify the code matches on both phones, then repeat for each remaining account.
- Once every account is confirmed working on the iPhone, remove them from the Android phone.
If that didn't work
If scanning itself is the problem, see QR code won't scan.
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