I’ve never stumbled across Apple Insider before, it’s quite the apologist for the company. Here’s some tone deaf quotes from the article that made me laugh:

“It’s true that the buck stops at the CEO, but without Tim Cook, Apple would not have so many bucks.”

I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?

“If billions and trillions are hard numbers to imagine, here’s another one. Apple could, if its valuation could be converted to cash without loss, give every person living in the continental USA a free iPhone 16e — and then 13 spare ones. Each.”

I love how they chose to illustrate Apple’s obscene level of wealth with how much it could benefit people if they ever distributed that wealth through altruistic giving 😂

Sadly it doesn’t 🥲. Copying app data is the hardest part of the process without a system level backup like seedvault, neobackup or traditional google backup services.

Only if you’re currently running stock android.

NeoBackup is the only one I’ve run across that seems to really fill the role of backup and restore thoroughly. The trouble is, in order to work it needs root, so I’ve never actually been able to try it. Almost reason enough to root in my book 😅, I love a good back up system.

Seedvault is another fairly well developed option, but it needs to be hardcoded in to the OS by the ROM developer.

You’ll probably benefit from a series of different backup apps in combination. Here’s a few that I’ve used and benefited from:

SMS import/export - backs up all SMS, MMS, call logs and contacts. Does not backup RCS.

Applist backup - back up your installed app list. This includes data on where you installed the app from and where you can get it again along with other useful info. The apps still have to manually installed.

Aside from those two, most FOSS apps include a backup and restore function, such as: signal, neo launcher, fossify calendar, newpipe, metro (music player), aegis (2 factor), obtainium, etc…

I hope this helps. I tend to tinker and install various ROMs, so am well aquainted with the pain of setting up a fresh OS without a system wide backup program. Its not as bad as it seems though, and as long as you get your messages, contacts and call logs moved over it goes pretty smooth.