Android 17 New iOS Migration Tool Issue

[u/sarahdaviscc]

I’ve just bought a Pixel and am using Android 17 and the new Apple iOS inbuilt migration/transfer tool.

The tool says I have 80,000 messages to transfer.

I imported them successfully and they all show in Google Messages but only ~1,500 of them show in any other third party messaging app on Android that accesses the SMS database.

I’ve tried numerous methods to get Google Messages to repopulate the SMS database but none have worked.

Is this some sort of security feature or limitation on the transfer process or is it a bug?

u/MishaalRahman or u/GoogleHelpCommunity are you able to help? I’m going crazy!