Transfer messages from Android to iOS problem with timestamp

ivardo wrote:

Hi, interesting, can you describe a little bit more how you did it, step by step?

Sure.

1. First and worst of all I had to do a Factory Reset on the iPhone"Erase All Content and Settings". Because the transfer can only be done during the initial setup of the iPhone - as far as I know.
2. I also removed my SIM-card to prevent the phones from synchronising date and time from the career. I don't know if this was necessary.
3. On my Android I
   1. Installed the app Move to iOS from the Google Play Store
   2. Set the timezone to manual and language/date format to US - Los Angeles and
   3. Rebooted the Android phone.
4. When starting up the initial iPhone setup I choose English and US - Los Angeles as the country/area.
5. Then I followed the steps in the Move to iOS app and afterwords the rest of the iPhone Setup.

• After finishing the setup my messages were all there with the correct dates and time stamp - on the minute!
• I could now change the language and country to my needs on the iPhone (Denmark & Danish in my case)

Hope this will help you :-)

This worked for me!

I now have 7 years of text messages all with the correct date and time stamp. (And most images to).

mar145 wrote:

Set US date and time, both on Android and iPhone. Then transfer messages with "Move to iOS" (I also didn't allow for Localization during initial set up).

(From Google Pixel 5 --> iPhone 12 Pro Max)

Well, now I have tried transfering this way. And it worked! Thanks. And I just can't understand why this isn't fixed in the Move to iOS app. I've got no clue, but it can't be that hard to solve this problem in the app. For people moving from Android to iOS it's not a warm welcoming to the iOS universe starting with frustration regarding timestamp on the messages.

That makes no sense at all. You can’t use your phone because the timestamps on your text messages are wrong? REALLY?

Set US date and time, both on Android and iPhone. Then transfer messages with "Move to iOS" (I also didn't allow for Localization during initial set up).

phetrak, did you manage to solve this?

I experience the very same problem.

Hi, interesting, can you describe a little bit more how you did it, step by step?

Thanks for taking your time describing this step by step! This looks really helpful. I will try this soon... hope it works :-)