Components Migrated by the Migration Assistant for Macintosh Computers

You can migrate backed-up data of one Macintosh computer to another Macintosh computer.

User setting components

What is migrated

Appearance and personalization

Personalization

  • Desktop background

  • User account picture

Clock, language and region

Region and Language

  • Formats

  • Location

  • Keyboards and Languages

iCloud keychain

  • Authentication method

  • Credit card numbers and expiration dates

  • Wi-Fi passwords

  • Internet account data

Address book

  • Contact information of your family, friends, or anyone

Browser preferences

  • For example:

    • Default browser in General settings

    • Browser bookmarks

    • Reading List

Network settings

WLAN settings for Wi-Fi connections such as SSID, connection type, connection mode, authentication mechanism, credentials for select authentication protocols

Mapped or shared network drives

All network mapped drives for user profiles are migrated

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