Transferring Information From Iphone To Android
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Buying a phone has always entailed not the most pleasant procedure of “moving” from an old device to a new one, but recently, the need to synchronize and other personal information has added to the traditional transfer of contacts. It’s good if your next smartphone will be on the same platform as the previous one, but if you decide to “move to an enemy camp”, then the task will be much more complicated. In this article, we will consider two options for transferring data. from iOS to Android and in the opposite direction.
IOS → ANDROID
iOS can synchronize contacts, calendar and mail with a Google account, and if you once selected Gmail as your mailbox, there’s nothing to worry about. just log in to your account on your Android smartphone and all your information will immediately be available on the new phone.
If you didn’t expect to “move” from iOS in the future, then most likely this data is tied to iCloud, in which case the procedure will be somewhat more complicated.
Contacts
To transfer contacts to your phone, you need to connect an iCloud account and enable their synchronization (settings. iCloud. (log in to your account). enable Contacts). Now they need to be “pulled out” of the cloud. for this, open the page www.icloud.com on your computer, enter your account, then go to the Contacts item and select the necessary contacts.
After that, in the menu called up by pressing the gear button, select Export vCard, and a VCF file with a list of contacts will be downloaded to your computer. Now we open the page www.google.com/contacts, in the left menu select the “Import contacts” item and open the downloaded VCF file (if you already have a preliminary version of the updated “Contacts” in which import does not work yet, you need to use the similar menu open the “” list on the left, select the import in it, after which you will be asked to switch to the old version of this service). After that, it remains only to enable contact synchronization in the settings of the new Android smartphone.
The calendar
The event transfer in the user calendar looks very similar. in the iCloud settings we enable calendar synchronization, go to the corresponding section on the website www.icloud.com and click on the Share icon to the right of its name in the list of available calendars. In the menu that appears, enable the Public Calendar option and copy the link that appears (webcal: //.). We insert it into the address bar of the new page, replace webcal with http, then press Enter. as a result, a file with a name of hundreds of characters and without extension is downloaded to the computer. This is a regular text file, which can be easily assigned a more decent name. To connect it to Google Calendar, open the page www.google.com/calendar, find the Other Calendars item, select Import calendar from the drop-down menu and open the file you just downloaded from the computer. after that all the events from it will be added to your calendar on Google- account.
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There shouldn’t be any problems with moving your mailbox. if you use not Gmail, but iCloud (or any other service), just search on Google Play any client with its support. for example, Mailbox or myMail.
Bookmarks
Here we will consider the most common option. using the standard Safari browser on iOS and moving to popular ones on Android Chrome and Firefox.
Transferring bookmarks from Safari is also carried out using iCloud (in the device’s settings, of course, you need to enable their synchronization), but this is not done using the resource’s website, but the iCloud for Windows client.
It should be noted “Bookmarks”, specify the browser in the options (Chrome or Firefox), click Apply and select Merge. After that, the utility will offer to download the iCloud Bookmarks extension for one of these browsers, and as a result, your bookmarks from the mobile Safari will appear in the desktop browser. If you choose Chrome, you don’t need to do anything further (provided that you log into it in your Google account). With Firefox, the task will be a bit more complicated (especially if you have not used user data synchronization in this browser before). you need to configure synchronization in it, for which you need to log in to your Firefox account (or create one), do the same on an Android smartphone and enter the code received there in the desktop browser.
If you don’t want to install iCloud for Windows, you can use iTunes instead (to do this, bookmark synchronization with iCloud should be turned off in your smartphone’s settings). To do this, you need to connect the iPhone to the PC, launch iTunes, open the device’s page in it, go to the “Information” tab, find the “Other” item in it and select the “Synchronize bookmarks with:” item (where there may be Internet Explorer and Safari options) , then click “Apply.” Now the bookmarks from the iPhone are combined with the bookmarks of one of these desktop browsers. you just have to start it and export the bookmarks to an HTML file, and then import them in the standard way into desktop versions of Chrome or Firefox, from where they are “sent” to Android using the method described in the previous paragraph.smartphone.
Photo /
To transfer photos /s, you can use the Google Photos service. for this you need to install the official Google client on the iPhone, connect to your Google account in it and enable autoload for photos ands, and then select “Download all photos ands”. After the download is complete, you can see all your materials in the Photos application on the new Android smartphone. If you do not want to use the Google service, you can perform this procedure without connecting to the Internet at all. To do this, you need to connect the iPhone to the computer via USB, open Explorer, right-click on the smartphone icon in the list of devices and drives and select “Import Images and”. After that, an import window will appear in which you can configure the parameters of this procedure (select a folder, delete files after copying, etc.). Now it’s enough to connect the Android smartphone to the PC and use the Explorer to copy the resulting folder to its memory (or to the SD card).
Music
Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks when “moving” is if, of course, your music library is stored in iTunes, and not in the form of MP3-ordered folders in folders (in this case, the whole task comes down to simply copying files from a PC to a smartphone using any file manager).
Google itself recommends using its Google Play Music player, which can upload your iTunes library to your “cloud”, from which you can then listen to it not only on your Android smartphone, but also in your browser on your PC. To do this, you will have to install the Google Music Manager utility on your PC and indicate that your music library is in the iTunes library, and then wait for the download to finish (in total, the service currently allows you to download up to 50 thousand tracks, which will be more than enough for any user )
If the streaming “broadcasting” of your own music via the Internet does not appeal to you, and you do not want to bother with downloading each album individually (or you use a different audio player instead of Google Play Music), you will have to turn to one of the third-party utilities. Unfortunately, they usually turn out to be shareware. like, for example, iSyncr. You can also perform this procedure using the DoubleTwist audio player, for which there is a desktop client with an interface similar to iTunes.
ANDROID → IOS
As already noted at the beginning of the article, iOS can synchronize contacts, calendar and mail with a Google account, so if you used it on an Android smartphone, the task of “moving” from Android to iOS will be much easier than in the opposite direction.
Contacts
If your contacts in your old phone are tied to your Google account, transferring them will be an elementary task. First you need to make sure that the synchronization of contacts is enabled on the Android smartphone (most likely Settings. General. Accounts Sync), and the smartphone itself has connected to the Internet at least once after you last edited the contacts for the last time. Now in the iPhone settings (Settings. Mail, Addresses, Calendars) it’s enough to add a new Gmail account and enable synchronization for all available items (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Notes) in it. after which all of the above will appear in the new smartphone.
If you stored contacts locally, on the phone itself, the task becomes a little complicated. in a regular “dialer” you must first export all such contacts to a separate VCF file (to internal memory or to an SD card), and then import them back, but not in the phone’s memory, but in your Google account. Further actions, as you might guess, repeat the procedure described above. If your contact application does not support the import / export of all records in bulk, you will have to edit each contact individually, manually transferring it to a Google account.
If you want to finally break with the Google past, contacts should be imported into iCloud. To do this, create a copy of it in a VCF file (either on the phone, as described above, or on contacts.google.com, where you need to select the vCard format), and then import it on the page www.icloud.com/#contacts (menu call settings using the gear button and Import vCard). Note that in the first case, you may receive a “Unable to import vCard” error message without any explanation. most likely, this means that your VCF file was created in 2.x format, while iCloud requires a version not lower than 3.0.
The calendar
Google Calendar automatically connects to your new iPhone along with contacts, mail and notes (according to the procedure described above), so no additional steps need to be taken (unless you make sure that synchronization is also enabled in the settings of your Google Google account for the calendar).
If you plan to cancel your Google account, you should import the calendar into iCloud, and this is not such a trivial task. Of course, if you have a Mac, everything is simple. on the page www.google.com/calendar you need to select the desired calendar, in its settings click on the ical button in the “Closed Calendar Address” section, copy the suggested URL, paste in a new tab and click Enter. after that, an ICS file will be copied to your computer, which you need to “feed” to the Calendar system application.
For owners of Windows-based PCs, everything is more complicated. they will have to use iTunes and Microsoft Outlook for this purpose, since iTunes can only sync calendars with this program. You will need to import the received file into Outlook, then connect the iPhone to the PC, open iTunes on the tab of your device, go to the “Details” sub-item and select the desired calendar in the “Synchronize Calendars” section. Another option is a third-party utility. for example, Copy My Data (Android, iOS), which can transfer not only a calendar, but also contacts, and photos /s.
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Of course, it’s easiest to continue using your old Gmail inbox, but you can create a new @ icloud.com account. To do this, in the iOS settings, select the iCloud section and turn on the Mail application in it. after that you will be prompted to register a new mailbox. And in order to receive correspondence sent to him at the old address, you need to enable redirection for him. in Gmail we call the settings (gear in the upper right corner), in which we add a new iCloud address using the ” Add Forwarding Address. ” After that, a confirmation message will come to it. click on the link, return to Gmail settings and make sure that the line “Send copies of incoming messages to addresses:” shows the correct address, then click “Save changes”.
Bookmarks
Most likely, on Android you used Chrome, on iOS you will switch to Safari (if you plan to continue using Chrome on iOS, you can skip this section further. the browser will synchronize your bookmarks on the new device).
So, in Chrome, select the bookmark manager (Ctrl-Shift-O), click on the gear in the upper right corner and select “Export bookmarks”. The resulting HTML file is imported into Internet Explorer, after which we connect the iPhone to the PC, launch iTunes and select “Sync bookmarks with: Internet Explorer” in the device’s properties. A little lower, in the “Add-ons” section, put a checkmark next to the bookmarks and click “Apply”. after that your bookmarks will appear in the mobile Safari.
Photo /
Everything is simple here. We connect the Android smartphone to the PC via USB, copy the photo and files to any folder on the hard drive (usually they are on the device in the DCIM folder), then connect the iPhone, launch iTunes, go to the Photos tab in the device menu and turn it on synchronization, after which we select the folder in which the necessary files are located. If there is in it, additionally put a tick in front of “Include in synchronization”.
If you do not have iTunes (and do not want to install it), you can use third-party synchronization utilities. for example, the already mentioned Copy My Data, or PhotoSync (Android, iOS).
Music
The transfer of music, like photo /, is also carried out elementarily, and in the same way. The music library is copied from the Android smartphone to the PC, dragged into iTunes, and then synchronization is performed in the settings of the connected iPhone on the “Music” tab. either the entire music library in bulk or only selected artists.
Summary
As you can see, the procedure for transferring personal data, although quite troublesome, is, in the end, solvable. after it remains only to “transfer” your favorite applications, or rather, install their versions for the new platform or find the most suitable analogues. However, this is a topic for a separate material.
