Google’s been Working on Simplifying Account Restoration on Android

If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of having to manually sign-in to different apps to access all of your different user accounts when setting up a new device, then you’re not alone. Google says that countless users face this issue often, and it’s been working on a way to address the matter at hand.

In the latest Android developers blog, Google unveiled its new “Restore Credentials” feature, which allows apps to onboard users into their accounts in a more efficient manner, after they restore their data from an older device. Google adds that there’s no need for developers when transferring restore keys between devices, as the whole process works via Android’s back and restore tool.

Once a user decides to transfer their data between their smartphones, restore keys on the old device are stored locally and then backed up online, and apps can opt-out from cloud backups as well. Meanwhile, users can also choose to locally transfer their data to their new device, or transfer it via the cloud.

This new feature should ideally make data transfers between old and new Android phones more seamless, something that iOS users (by comparison) have been enjoying for many years now.

Source: Android Developers