Transfer large files

What would you do with a zip or rar file on an iPhone? There are no apps that could open it.

If your computer is a Mac you can use Airdrop.

You can email them to yourself using Mail Drop—>Mail Drop limits - Apple Support. While it uses iCloud it doesn’t count against your data limit.

Beyond that, if there is some reason you don’t want to use iCloud there are myriad 3rd party apps. All of these are supported on iOS:

• dropbox.com
• box.com
• Google Drive
• Microsoft OneDrive
• LiveDrive

There are others, but these are the first that come to mind.

Copying through iCloud is not in the slightest time consuming. Install iCloud for Windows on your PC. On your PC drag the photos to iCloud for Windows. Or log in to https://icloud.com , click on Photos, and import the photos from your PC.

On your phone go to Settings/{your name}/iCloud and turn on iCloud Photos. The photos will automagically sync from iCloud to the phone, untouched by human hands. Just leave the phone connected to Wi-Fi for a couple of hours.

If you have more than 5 GB of photos you can expand the iCloud capacity to 50 GB for 99¢ a month. Or to more storage for additional monthly cost.

Since you are coming from Android maybe Google Photos is a better solution for you. There is a Google Photos app for the iPhone that syncs in real time.

You can do the same thing using any of the other cloud services I mentioned.

If you do not want to use iCloud the best option for you would be --> Sync your photos manually with iTunes. Each time that you sync your iOS device with iTunes, the photos and videos on your iOS device update to match the albums on your computer.

If you have any of the Cloud Drives (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox, Flickr, box, AmazonDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud etc)

Then upload the files to any of these drives.

Get Files app an Apple product on App store.

Access and organize your files no matter where they’re located — on your device, in the cloud, on an external drive or file server— with Files. The Recents view displays the files you’ve been working on lately in high-resolution thumbnails. Use the powerful Browse view to navigate folders, organize your files with tags, move files between folders, and search. Files also makes it easy to access iCloud Drive and third-party cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive.

Access and organize your files no matter where they’re located — on your device, in the cloud, on an external drive or file server— with Files. The Recents view displays the files you’ve been working on lately in high-resolution thumbnails. Use the powerful Browse view to navigate folders, organize your files with tags, move files between folders, and search. Files also makes it easy to access iCloud Drive and third-party cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive.

Features

• Press the Files icon in the Dock or Home screen to quickly open a file from anywhere

• Connect an external drive or SD card to your device to access the files

• Connect to a file server at work or a home PC using SMB from Files

• Use tags to organize files stored with different cloud providers and across different apps.

• Pin your favorite folders in Browse view for quick access to the ones you use most.

• Give people access to any file stored in iCloud Drive by sharing a link from the Files app

• Drag and drop to select files and organize them into folders

This is the best and easiest option. Sync your photos manually with iTunes.

What sort of files? What format? Define large please (Approx Size).