Wired or Bluetooth SMART SWITCH?

[kide#WN]

Decided to go with wireless transfer. Took less than 50 minutes for full transfer and apps updates.

 

[kokonuts]

Make sure you Plugged them into their chargers.
and make the phones close to each other.

 

[STARGATE]

In my experience; wired has been faster than wireless, especially when transferring from an older phone or from another brand to Samsung.

Sent From the TARDIS

 

[Laura Knotek]

I've always done Smartswitch PC rather than wireless.

 

[waqqas31]

I wanted to get up and running "quickly" so I started off by transferring my essential data like accounts, apps, home screen (~70GB) via wireless and it took about an hour. Then I did my much larger photos, videos, docs, audio, downloads (~250GB) using a Thunderbolt 3 cable and it took 39 minutes. The wireless estimated transfer time for part 2 was 4 hours and 43 minutes.

Even if via cable is less reliable (doubt it is, unless your cable is low-quality), multiple attempts can still save you a lot of time, as long as it's minimum 5Gbps-capable.