Switching phones is often a hassle for many people. While emails and contacts can follow users between ecosystems, SMSes really only transfer between devices running the same software – and then sometimes not even then.

For Windows phone users switching to Android phones, this means anything between 1 and 6 years of text messages chronicling interactions with friends and family members potentially lost.

Fortunately, there are ways to rescue your precious texts and move them to your new device with relatively little fuss.

You’ll need an Android phone (duh), a Windows 10 PC, and access to the Microsoft account associated with the Windows phone.

How to transfer SMS from Windows phones to Android