Best Way to Migrate App/Data? (Android 9 Phone to Android 10)

[consultant1027]

I'm about to do my once every 2 year phone upgrade. Been on Android last 12 years. My days of rooting my phone are long gone. Don't have time. I know Google will automatically download and install all my apps based on my Google account login. But if I recall, on non-Google apps that don't require their own account login, the past few upgrades I've had to go into a handful of apps and export the settings (if it has such a function) than import after installing on the new phone.

Old phone is Android 9 (LG V30). New phone is Android 10 (Samsung S10 5G). Is this still basically the same process these days or has Google improved or apps that don't require rooting aid in migrating to a new phone?

 

[hallux]

Kind of. Samsung has a tool called SmartSwitch, which will automate the process for you and, in some cases, bring over your app data. SmartSwitch works as long as a Samsung device is the destination (new) device. The level to which it will bring over customized settings might vary by app and how the settings are stored.

App data backup in Android as a whole is still entirely dependent upon the app developer to enable and configure it.

One thing I'm NOT thrilled with, as a result of the SmartSwitch migration, is that when I look at app info it tells me in the app store info that it was installed using SmartSwitch and won't let me tap that spot to go to the app store page for the app.