How to transfer data from iphone to android. Classic transfer of information. Wireless transfer via PhotoSync

So, you're sick and tired of the closed iOS ecosystem and the stranglehold Apple has on its platform. In that case, Android welcomes you with open arms, but don't forget to grab your junk as you move to the new platform.

Apple doesn't provide an easy way to transfer data from iOS to Android - the company is more interested in the reverse transition. However, with a couple of useful tools and patience, you can transfer all your data without losing a single file.

Contacts

If you've been using Apple devices for a long time, you have the advantage of syncing contacts with iCloud. This makes it easy to log into iOS and access your address book, so you can easily transfer data to your Android device.

First, you will need to make sure that all your contacts are in iCloud: go to the main iPhone settings and open the iCloud menu. Just make sure you're logged in and drag the switch next to Contacts to the on position.

Then go to the iCloud website and open your contact manager. In the lower right corner you will see a gear icon - click on it and select all your contacts, then use the same button to select "Export vCard". This file will contain all your saved contacts, so don't leave it anywhere.

From your vCard, go directly to the Google Contacts website and sign in to your Google account. If you don’t have it yet, get it, you’ll need it later. Click on the “More” tab and select “Import”. After that, you can select the vCard file and all your contacts will be saved in Google cloud.

Gmail users should check their contacts. If you already use Gmail as your main email, then you may have many contacts saved, just without phone numbers. This is where the Find Similar Contacts feature (in the left menu of Google Contacts) can come in handy, which will find duplicates in your contact list.

Photos and videos

Google recently launched a new photo and video manager for Android and iOS, so this procedure will also be easy. All you need to do is download the Google Photos app from the App Store and sign in using your Google account.

In settings you'll find a backup and sync section - just go to the menu and turn on the photo backup feature. For photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p it will be free. Google calls this “high quality,” which will compress images that are too large. If you want to keep your photos intact, then you have that option. However, this may go against your Google Drive upload limit because... Each user receives only 15 GB of free space for free. When you first launch the application, you will be prompted with this information.

Google can download your videos and photos directly from your iPhone.
Using the above procedure, all photos and videos from your phone will be saved online and available on all Android devices. But this only applies to the content available on the device. But you may also want to save files deleted from the device that are stored in the iCloud library. Make sure your iCloud library is synced to your computer using the iCloud client, then go to photos.google.com. You can upload files by dragging them from your computer into your browser window.

As for videos, this procedure will only help you when copying videos that you shot. Any video content you purchase from iTunes is protected by digital intellectual property rights management, so you won't be able to use it on third-party devices. Bummer.

Bookmarks

If you spend any time surfing the Internet, then most likely you have saved bookmarks in the mobile version of the Safari browser that you would also like to transfer to another device. As usual, Apple tried to make this procedure as difficult as possible. The easiest and fastest way is to use the iCloud client on your computer.

Make sure you have Safari sync checked in your phone's iCloud settings, then go to your computer and open iCloud. One of the synchronization points will be Bookmarks. For synchronization to take place directly through Chrome, it must be installed on your computer. If you decide that you will use the Firefox browser on your phone, you can transfer bookmarks directly into it. Both browsers have the function of synchronizing online and mobile versions.

Remember: if you've been using the Chrome browser all the time on iOS, then all the work has already been done for you: bookmarks from Chrome are automatically synchronized between different devices. The Firefox browser is not yet available on iOS, so if you want to use it on Android, you will have to go through the synchronization procedure described above.

Mail

If you used the Gmail client on your iPhone, then you can safely skip this point: all your mail will appear on the new operating system when you log into your Google account. If you use iCloud mail, you don't have to give up your address because many manufacturers have universal email apps that allow you to add different IMAP accounts (like iCloud). The Gmail app now also has this feature.

Calendar

iOS Calendar doesn't have an export feature, so you'll need to check out another iCloud trick to help you transfer your data to Google Calendar.

After going to this address, you will automatically download an ICS file, which you can use to import the calendar into your Google account. In Google Calendar, click on the "Other Calendars" tab in the left menu of the site and select "Import Calendar." In the menu that opens, you only need to find and select the downloaded ICS file.

Music

Google Play Music is the equivalent of iTunes for Android devices; it recognizes songs in MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC, OGG formats, and you can download up to 50,000 songs.
But because the iPhone doesn't have a fully accessible file system, you won't find it easy to export files from your device there. The fastest way to switch to Play Music is to use iTunes to sync your music library with your computer, then upload it to the Google cloud.

If you have a relatively small music collection, you can download all your songs by simply going to the Play Music website and dragging them into your browser window. To download larger collections, download the Google Music Manager desktop app. To download files, you will need to specify the required iTunes library in the downloads tab.

Apple has been selling music that isn't protected by digital intellectual property rights for years now, but if your library only contains protected files, there's no way you can transfer them to Play Music.

Applications and games

One of the reasons people stay loyal to iOS is the huge selection of apps and games, but in recent years Android has caught up with its rival. However, you won't find a way to directly transfer apps and games from iPhone to Android: the operating systems are incompatible, and there's no way yet to prove that you've already purchased an app on iOS. If you want the same content, you will need to purchase it again.

Common apps like Facebook, WhatsApp and Pandora are also available on Android. To quickly find them, go to the "Top Apps" tab. To find a specific application, you will have to do a little searching. The Play Market online store makes it easy to find both paid and free games and applications, and do it through a browser faster than from your device. In addition, you can install applications on your phone or tablet directly from the browser (to be honest, it’s not clear why Apple hasn’t gotten around to this yet).

If you can't find the app you were using on Android, then check out the AlternativeTo website. It provides alternatives to a variety of apps and games.

The biggest challenge will be setting up and sorting all of your installed apps, but either way, moving to cloud file storage on both operating systems has made the process much easier.

Using our instructions, you will do this in a matter of seconds.

After purchasing a new mobile device, you first need to transfer contacts to it. Don't worry, you won't have to copy long columns of numbers onto a piece of paper and manually enter them into your new phone. Let's look in detail at how to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android without wasting time and important information.

Apple's cloud, iCloud, will help us transfer contacts from iPhone to Android. It’s convenient to perform all basic actions in a browser (the best method works in Safari) on a computer, but you can also do it directly on a smartphone. Check in the device menu whether phone numbers are synchronized with the cloud. Open “Settings”, “iCloud” section, activate the “Contacts” sub-item. You can also transfer notes, photos and videos, songs, and calendars using this method. If you have backup disabled, synchronize.

From computer

To export data, go to https://www.icloud.com/ in your browser. For further actions you will not need your iPhone, everything is done only on your computer:

Log in to your profile with the Apple ID login and password that you entered when downloading programs from the AppStore.
Click on the "Contacts" icon.
Press CTRL+A to select everything.
Click on the gear-shaped button to open a submenu, select “Export vCard” in it.
The download of 1 VCF file with all numbers will begin.
Send the resulting file to your new smartphone. In it, open the phone book, go to “Import/Export” in the menu. Specify the source of data import - the folder in which the downloaded VCF is located.
Choose where to copy the recordings (to your phone) and click Next.

The method is perfect for Samsung smartphones and all other brands, including regular cell phones.

Without a computer

You can use the iCloud method without a PC. Let's learn how to sync iPhone contacts in the standard Safari browser directly on your smartphone:

If the menu items are not visible or there is no zooming, repeat step 2 again.

iTunes

If you have iTunes installed on your PC, use it to transfer phone numbers. Contacts will be exported according to the following algorithm:

Open
Connect your iPhone to your computer with a cable.
When the program detects your phone, open it.
On the “Information” tab, check the “Synchronize” option.
Select the copy direction: Google Contacts, Outlook, Windows Contacts, Yahoo.
Enter the login and password for the selected service, click “Apply”.
The transfer of contacts from the iPhone will begin.
Go to the settings of the second device, find the “Accounts” sub-item and select the service to which the information was copied.
Click “Synchronize”, selecting the types of data to be copied.

Gmail

To fully use Android gadgets, you need to register a profile with Google. You can then connect your iPhone to Gmail and export your contacts and other information you need. First do on iPhone:

In the settings, find the “Mail, addresses, calendars” sub-item.
Create a new account.
From the proposed list of services, select Google.
Enter your username and password for the service.
Enter the information you want to send via Gmail.

Complete the transfer of personal contacts from iPhone to Android on the second phone:

In the settings, find the “Accounts and synchronization” sub-item.
Check the "Automatic" box.
Add the Gmail account to which the numbers were copied.
The connection to Google will be completed and the phone book will be copied.

This method is suitable for both Samsung phones and any others.

Outlook

If you have not yet registered with Gmail, you can synchronize your iPhone contacts using the Outlook service. To transfer phone numbers from your iPhone using the Microsoft app, proceed as described in the section about Gmail with minor differences:

on iPhone, choose Outlook instead of Gmail;
on Android, add an Outlook.com account.

Third Party Applications

You can transfer contacts from iOS to Android through third-party utilities that are available on Google Play and the AppStore.

CardDAV-Sync

Another utility for quickly exporting personal contacts from iPhone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.carddav.sync&hl=ru. It is installed on the Android device, and we synchronize it with iCloud:

Download and open CardDav.
In the list of accounts, click on CardDav.
Enter a new server: p02-contacts.icloud.com. Enter your Apple ID login information.
Give your profile any name.
Check the box to copy information only from the server to the phone.
Click Finish.

The phone book is exported to this smartphone.

My Contacts Backup

A simple and free utility: https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/my-contacts-backup/id446784593?mt=8. How to copy contacts from iPhone:

Install the program and allow access to contacts.
Click Backup and synchronization will begin.
Click on Email, send the prepared file to your email.
Send the sent file to the second device, launch it there.

You can skip the step of sending the file by email by opening the archive with numbers from the browser of your new smartphone. To do this, on your iPhone, go to the utility settings and activate the server in the Wi-Fi Managment section. On the second smartphone, launch a browser and copy the received server address into its address bar. In this case, both phones must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Today, many people own not one, but several smartphones. Often completely different, for example, an iPhone and something based on Android. But, unfortunately, not everyone knows that data on these devices can be synchronized. We propose to fill this gap and understand how and with what help synchronization is performed, as well as the transfer of user information from iOS to Android.

Transfer contacts via Gmail

To transfer contacts from iPhone to Android, just three simple steps are required:

Create an account on the Gmail email service.
Add it to your list of accounts in the Mail app on iOS.
Enable the app's synchronization feature. The address book will be automatically copied to any Android device where you log in using this account.

How to do it:

After registering your Gmail account, launch the Mail application on your iPhone. Select Google from the list of accounts.

Tap Add Account.

Fill out a new profile: indicate your name, email address and password.

Click "Save".

Enable contact synchronization in your mail settings and disable it in iCloud (the phone book must be saved).

Set your Gmail account as a standard mail account.

After this, the selected data will be synchronized via Google servers. If you use this email as an account on Android, the address book will be copied to the device automatically. True, some addresses and numbers may be duplicated. But this, you see, is not a particularly serious problem.

The method works on both old (for example, iPhone 4) and new Apple gadgets.

Export contacts to Android via iCloud

The second way to transfer your phone and address book from iPhone to Android involves using the iCloud service. Open it in a browser on your computer or mobile device, log in with your account and go to the “Contacts” section.

Select the desired addresses (or, if desired, all of them) from the list and click on the gear icon located in the lower left corner of the page. Select the "Export vCard" option.

Save the file in any convenient place.

Next, open the Google Contacts service in your browser, log in with your Gmail account, go to the “All Contacts” and “More” menus. Select the "Import" option.

In the “Import contacts from other accounts” window, click “from vCard” and specify the path to the saved file.

Now log in using the same account on Android and make sure that the data saved in the vCard database has been successfully transferred. By the way, vCard files can be transferred from one mobile gadget to another if you connect them, for example, via Bluetooth.

This option is also suitable for use on devices of different generations.

Importing contacts into Gmail from other email services using the example of Yandex

If you did not use Gmail on your iPhone, but some other email service, for example, Yandex, to transfer contacts to Android you will first have to export your Yandex address book to Google mail.

For this:

Go to the “Contacts” section of your Yandex mailbox.
The required option is located in the “More” menu and is called “Save contacts to file”.

When saving, select the vCard format from the “Mail Client” list.

Next, import this file into Google Contacts according to the instructions above.

Exporting contacts in other email services is done in approximately the same way. The differences are extremely minor.

Transfer Contacts via iTunes

To transfer your address book from an Apple gadget to Gmail, you can also use iTunes, after first connecting the device to the service.

Once your iPhone or iPad is connected to iTunes, open the “Information” section in the latter’s menu. Check the “Sync contacts with” checkbox and select “Google Contacts” from the drop-down list. After that, check their availability on Android.

Import music

To transfer music stored in your iTunes profile to your Android device, synchronize it with the Google Music cloud service.

To do this, install the Google Play Music mobile application on Android and log in to it using your Gmail account. In the “Where do you store your music collection” box, select iTunes. Once you upload albums to the Google Music cloud, you can listen to them on your Android smartphone.

Unfortunately, the service can be used for free for only 4 months; for a further subscription you will have to shell out $9.99 monthly.

Importing photo albums

It is also very convenient to use Google to transfer photos from iPhone to Android. More precisely, Google Photos cloud storage and social network Google+

Google Photos

To use Google Photos, open the service page in a web browser or install the Google Photos application from the Appstore on your iPhone. Upload photos into it (drag onto the window or click the “Upload” button and select the desired files from the catalog).

After this, the photos will be available to you on any Android smartphone or tablet. To get quick access to them, install a similar program from . The browser version for a mobile gadget is not very convenient.

Google+

Those who have a Google+ account (and everyone who has registered a Gmail mailbox) can use this social network to share multimedia data between all their devices.

If you use the browser version of Google+, it is more convenient to switch it to the classic view for uploading photos (the button is at the bottom of the side menu). In it, unlike the new one, the function of downloading multimedia files is in plain sight.

Click on the camera icon shown in the screenshot below.

In the “For whom” field, specify the users who will be able to view your photos, and click on the camera icon again.

For convenience, you can install the Google+ mobile application on both devices - iPhone and Android. It is available for free download on both the App Store and Google Play.

Is it possible to transfer applications from iOS to Andriod?

One can only dream of directly transferring programs from one device to another, since, alas, it is impossible to do this in practice. iOS and Android are too different platforms for the same version of an app to run on both. However, you can get out of this situation without losses.

Many mobile software developers release their products for both platforms. This means that the likelihood that you will find familiar applications on Google Play is very high. Some of them (usually paid) have their own cloud services that allow you to synchronize files and settings on different gadgets. Others are local and will have to be configured from scratch. But files created in such a program on one device will be opened on another, so there is essentially nothing to worry about, because the main thing is that you will not lose anything.

Today, in continuation of the topic, we will look at the opposite situation - how to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone, as well as using which applications and Appe services are most convenient to do this.

The Move to iOS app is the easiest and most universal way

As you already know, many methods and tricks are used to transfer contacts and other information from an iPhone to a smartphone or tablet for Android: some for contacts, others for files, etc. In the opposite situation, everything is much simpler: most users prefer to get by one single application that makes it possible to transfer everything at once. Well, or almost everything, namely:

telephone and address book;
message history;
Chrome web browser bookmarks;
photographs and videos from the camera;
accounts on postal services;
notes and calendar.

The application is called "Move to iOS". Download it from Google Play and install it on your Android gadget, which stores information intended for transfer to iOS. But before that, make sure that both devices support it.

So, for Move to iOS to work correctly, the following conditions must be met:

The data carrier - a smartphone or tablet - must have an Android version no older than 4.0.
The receiver - iPhone or iPad - must belong to the new generation. Supported iPhone models: 5, 5s, 6, 6s and 7. Supported iPad models: 4, iPad Air, iPad Air 2. Supported iPad mini models: 2, 3 and 4.
Your Apple device must be running iOS 9 or 10.
If you are going to transfer bookmarks from the Google Chrome browser, it must also be updated to the latest version.

During the transfer, both devices (sending and receiving) must be connected to a power source (to avoid damage to the content due to an unexpectedly dead battery) and to a private Wi-Fi network. In addition, there must be enough free space on the receiving gadget.

Transfer order:

On an Apple device: go to Programs and Data and select Transfer Data from Android.

On an Android device: Launch Move to iOS, tap Continue, and accept the license agreement.

When the message “Find your code” appears on the screen, click “Next” and pick up your iPhone.

While in the “Transfer data from Android” section, tap the “Continue” button. After this, a code will be generated on the device, which you must enter into the Android application.

After checking the correctness of the code and synchronizing the devices, you will see the message “Transfer Data” on the screen of the Android gadget. Mark in the list what you are going to transfer to the iPhone: camera roll (photo and video recordings), messages - messages, Google Account - Gmail account data (calendar and notes), Google contacts - telephone and email contacts and bookmarks - Google Chrome browser bookmarks .

When all data has been successfully transferred, the message “Transfer Complete” will appear on the Android display. To exit the program, click “Done”.

Next, pick up your iPhone or iPad again and complete the setup by following the instructions on the screen. This is where it all ends.

Transfer data from Android to iPhone manually

Move to iOS helps you transfer most of what you need from Android to iOS, but, unfortunately, not everything. So, with its help it is impossible to transfer music recordings, user files, e-books, documents, contacts of other accounts (for example, Yandex) and applications. All of this, with the exception of the last one, can be transferred manually using the capabilities of iTunes and the iCloud service.

Multimedia data

To transfer multimedia files (music, video and photos) in any available way, connect your Android gadget to your PC and copy the necessary information to your computer’s hard drive. Next, connect your iPhone to the same computer and authorize it in iTunes.

After connecting, synchronize graphic content and music in iTunes:

Open the "Photos" section. At the top right of the window, check the “Synk Photos” checkbox. From the “Copy photos from” list, select the folder in which the photos transferred from Android are saved. Below, indicate the content you want to sync: all photos and albums or just selected ones. Of these - only favorites, only those containing videos, etc. When you have finished selecting, click the “Synk” button at the bottom of the window.

While in iTunes, go to the Music section of your library. Open the folder in which you saved music from Android, select the desired audio tracks and drag them into the program window. Then open the "Music" section of your device and repeat the synchronization operation described above.

E-books in PDF and ePub formats

Connect your Android device to your PC again and copy the e-books to your hard drive. We perform further actions in iTunes.

Authorize your iPhone in the application.
Open the “iBooks” - “List” tab in iTunes (in the Windows version - the “Books” section) and use the mouse to drag the selected books onto it.
Go to the settings section of the connected iOS device and expand the “iBooks” section. Synchronize books according to the instructions above.

Documentation

To synchronize documents, another Apple service is used - the iCloud Drive cloud. To synchronize files with your device, open the iCloud settings on the latter and in the “iCloud Drive” section, move the activation slider to the “On” position.

Transfer the necessary files and document folders to iCloud Drive storage. After that, you will be able to view them on your iPhone and iPad.

The accessibility of documents does not guarantee that they will be opened on your Apple device, because many of them require special programs for this. There is no point in transferring applications from Android, since iOS does not support them, but, fortunately, in the vast majority of cases you will find an analogue of such programs on the App Store.

Contacts from other email accounts

In the article about transferring information from iPhone to Android, we talked about how to export phone and address books from iCloud in vCard format. However, vCard files can not only be exported, but also imported into iCloud from any email account, for example, Yandex, Mail or Gmail.

To do this, log in to the source service, go to the contacts storage section and save them as a vCard file. Next, open a similar section in iCloud, go to “Options” (they are hidden behind the gear icon) and select “Import vCard”.

All that remains is to specify the path to the file that you just saved. After this, the address book from another device will be opened on the iPhone.

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Below you will find one comprehensive guide to switching from iOS to Android from Google.

Transferring photos

Download the Google+ application from the App Store.

Open the Google+ application and log in with your Google account (that is, simply enter your Gmail address and password).
Tap on the menu icon, then click on the gear icon in the upper right corner and select “Camera and Photos”.
Select “Startup” and set the switch to the “ON” position.

Ready. Photos have already begun to be uploaded to the Google cloud. After some time, your entire photo gallery will be available in the Photos application on your Android smartphone, in which you are logged in with your Google account.

If, during the startup process, the iPhone starts complaining about privacy:

Go to the device settings, select “Privacy”, then “Photos”.
Set the Google+ switch to the “ON” position.

Transfer Music from iTunes

You can transfer tracks from iTunes to the Google Music cloud for free.

Make sure your iPhone or iPad is fully synced with iTunes on your computer. In this case, all the music from iTunes will also be saved on the computer.
Download Google Music Download Manager.
We log in to the manager with our Google account, after which we transfer our entire music library from iTunes to Google in one click. The procedure is so simple that it fits into a 20-second video:

The standard version of Google Music is free, but you'll be asked to create your Google Wallet to complete setup. In the future, you will need it to make purchases on Google services.

Transfer Gmail Contacts

No additional action is required. All your Gmail mail and contacts will be automatically downloaded to the Android device you sign in with your Google account.

Transfer iCloud contacts

Go to the device settings, then “Mail, contacts, calendars”, then “Accounts”. Here you need to find iCloud.
Open iCloud and turn on the “Contacts” item.
In the browser, go to apple.com/icloud, log in with your Apple ID and select “Contacts”. In the lower left corner, click on the wheel, “Select all”, click on the wheel again and select “Export vCard”.
In the browser, go to the address gmail.com, in the upper left corner click on the “Mail” item and select “Contacts”.
At the top of the interface we find the “Advanced” button and select “Import”. Click on “Select file” and specify the path to the saved vCard file.

Ready. Now all your iCloud contacts have been transferred to Gmail, and you can get rid of duplicate contacts in the same “Advanced” menu using the “Find and merge matching contacts” option.

Transferring other contacts

If you store contacts locally on your iPhone or use a service other than iCloud or Gmail, you can transfer contacts to your Android device using iTunes on your computer.

We connect the iPhone to the computer.
Open iTunes and select the connected device in the upper right corner.
Open the “Information” tab and check the “Synchronize contacts with...” item.
Select “Google Contacts” and indicate your Google account.

Ready. Also, as alternative methods of transferring contacts, you can use specialized third-party applications that you trust, or a SIM card.

Setting up Gmail

No additional action is required. As soon as you log into your Android device with your Google account, your Gmail mail will immediately be available in the application of the same name.

Current advice: Your Google account is the key to all Google services. Be sure to strengthen his defense two-factor authentication.

Setting up other mailers

The Google app store has clients for all current email services, for example:

If you want to continue using iCloud mail, then any mail application that supports IMAP, POP3 and Exchange will suit you.

IMPORTANT! Don't forget to turn off iMessage

If iMessage is not disabled, messages will continue to arrive on the old iOS device and not on the new Android.

You need to disable iMessage before you remove the SIM card from your iPhone or iPad. Go to settings, then “Messages”. Here we turn off iMessage.

Transferring applications

There are over 1.3 million apps on Google Play. 99.9% of developers release applications for both iOS and Android. This means that you will have all the same applications, but now they are even more functional and convenient.

This is a success!

Congratulations! Now you are a happy Android user. Finally, you can forget iOS like a bad dream and start enjoying working with mobile devices.