We’ve got a problem. Yup indeed we do. Although they say it will be seamless to move from one provider to another they all try to make it as painful as possible to keep you with them.

Moving email from google to ProtonMail is painful. Moving photos from google to iPhoto is painful.
Moving contacts from google to iPhone is painful.

all in all not a good week so far.

No matter how many times they say they have created tools to make it easy for users to transfer from one provider to another that’s just not actually real life.

I’m now on day two of trying to get all of my contacts from google synced to my iPhone. Absolute nightmare. Getting the photos exported will take days and I expect any roadblocks along the way.

Tried to import the important emails from gmail to ProtonMail yesterday. Google blocked it because it was insecure. ProtonMail is the most secure client out there.

As I said. Never assume it’s going to be easy.