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Even if you love your iPhone or Windows PC, you deserve the freedom to pick up your digital life and move on. Here’s how.

Whether Beeper is for you or not, we can applaud the effort to make a Switzerland for texting. You can keep your history with Apple Messages if you ditch an iPhone. You can chat with your cousin who loves Instagram DMs without using that app.

The existence of this small company with a smart idea gives me hope that we don’t have to rely on the kindness of technology giants to make it easier to move to a different phone or computer system.There are other options if you want to switch phone systems and transfer your texts. Again, they are flawed.

Years ago, I switched from an iPhone to a Google Pixel smartphone. There’s an option to connect an iPhone and a Pixel with a cable to pull in Apple Messages history. It worked for me, eventually, but I spent hours fiddling to make the message transfer work properly. I’m happy that I swapped phone systems but this hassle isn’t for everyone.Let’s acknowledge the obvious: It shouldn’t be so hard to swap your computer or phone system. More than most companies, Apple makes this difficult.

 

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