HOW TO TRANSFER ANY DATA FROM ANDROID TO IPHONE: EASY TRICKS
Nowadays more and more people would like to get and use an iPhone because of its functionality, compatibility with Macintosh, trendy look and excellent camera quality. People who used Android earlier face a question of transferring their photos, contacts, favorite apps and music to their new iPhone gadget. Therefore, here you can find easy steps to make your data be available on an iPhone.
THE EASIEST WAY: USE THE APP
The easiest and the most common way to transfer music, contacts, calendar, photos from Android phone to iPhone is to back up to the cloud or to the desktop and then sync to iPhone. Moreover it is possible to be guided in this process with a special Android app recently designed by Apple for this purpose.
Actually it’s enough to have an iPhone with iOS 9 and the Internet connection to be able to use “Move to iOS” app on the Android.
Using “Move to iOS” app makes it possible to transfer contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, web bookmarks, mail accounts, calendars, free apps.
Here you can find more information how to use this application: http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/switch-to-iphone/
So, basically this is the much simple way to transfer data if you decided to switch from Android to iPhone.
ANOTHER WAY: GOOGLE HELPS
Well, if you don’t like this way or experience any difficulties with it, there is another method - using Google.
If you have being using your Android phone for a long time, it’s pretty possible that all of your contacts are associated with your Google account (Gmail, Google Play). So. first of all make sure that you have backed up your Android phone. In order to do this you should go to Settings on your Android phone, click “Accounts and Sync”. Then enter your Gmail account menu and enable synchronisation.
After the synchronisation finishes, go to Settings on your iPhone, choose “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” and add your Gmail account. Check if the Contacts are enabled for the account. After this you will find all your Google contacts on your iPhone.
TRANSFER CONTACTS BY INSERTING THE SIM CARD
- Save your contacts on your Android SIM card.
- Insert this SIM into your iPhone (if the size of SIM is not fitted to your iPhone you can cut it down. But note, that you should do this very carefully in order not to lose your contacts at all. Better to ask a specialist).
- Go to Settings on your iPhone, choose “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” and “Import SIM Contacts”.
- After the contacts have been copied to your iPhone device you can replace the SIM card into any other.
TRANSFER THE APPLICATION
The point is that you are not to transfer the app physically but save and transfer your account and data for the app. So once you have install the app on your iPhone, just log in it and you get all the information and content appear on a new gadget.
TRANSFER PHOTOS, VIDEOS AND MUSIC
All you need is an iTunes installed on your computer. Just move your photos and videos from Android phone to the computer, sync them to iTunes. After that sync your new iPhone to iTunes. You can do the same trick with music.
To make the process more simple, you can just connect your Android phone to any computer whether PC or Mac, choose the photos and videos you would like to transfer and drag them to a folder on your computer. Then, plug in your iPhone to that computer, open iTunes and click your iPhone. Click Photos, select “Sync Photos from” checkbox and choose the folder into which you saved your photos. Then click Apply and you will get your photos synced to your iPhone.
DETAILS CONCERNING MUSIC TRANSFER
The process is similar to transferring photos and videos. You need to get music files from Android to a computer first. Then get them to iTunes and sync to iPhone. Then go to Library and Music. Open the folder in which you put your music files and drag them to the Music view in iTunes.
Finally, hook up your iPhone, click iPhone and click Music. You can choose to sync your entire library or select only the songs you just added. Then click Sync and the songs will be added to your iPhone.
Enjoy your new Apple gadget with your old stuff.