You've moved from an iPhone to a Pixel or a Galaxy. Your messages and apps make the jump — but the private vault you kept your sensitive photos and documents in? With most tools, that's where the migration stalls.
Why it's usually painful
Most photo vaults are single-OS, or they don't share a container format. So moving means decrypting everything, shuttling the raw files across, and re-encrypting on the new phone — losing organization along the way — or simply abandoning the old vault. An iOS-only app can't follow you to Android at all.
How Kistvault handles it
- Export on the iPhone. Produce the encrypted container — opaque ciphertext — while the vault is locked.
- Move it across. Transfer the container to the Android phone by whatever means you like.
- Open on Android. Install Kistvault, import the container, and unlock with your password, pattern or Recovery Kit. Same bytes, same vault.
Because both platforms run one crypto core pinned to the same test vectors, the vault is read identically on either — portability is a tested guarantee, not a hope.
This walkthrough covers the iPhone-to-Android direction; for the broader picture — both directions, and every phone upgrade after — see switching phones without losing your vault.