After acquiring a brand new smartphone or tablet, the question always arises of transferring data from the old device to the one you just bought. Moreover, recently, the need to synchronize some other personal user information has been added to the traditional “moving” of contacts.
Serious problems will not arise if the new device works on the same operating system as the old one. Difficulties begin when you decide to “get over to the enemy camp,” that is, you were on the Android platform, but you wanted to try iOS. These two operating systems are incompatible with each other and the usual synchronizing procedures will not help here.
So, let's try to figure out how to transfer your data from Android to iOS, and make it the most painless for both gadgets and the user himself.
Contacts
If your phone book on the old device was tied to an account in Google, then the "relocation" is greatly simplified. Before you transfer data to iOS, you need to make sure that your “Android” device has the option of synchronizing with Google turned on, and that your smartphone or tablet has recently connected to the Internet.
On an iPhone, you need to add your Google Mail account (Gmail) and enable synchronization: Settings -> Mail, addresses. After the procedure is complete, the entire list of contacts should appear on the new iOS device.
In the event that your contacts were recorded locally, that is, directly to the phone, the transfer from Android to iOS is a bit more complicated. On your old phone, you need to export the phone book to an external SD card or internal drive in VCF format (selected in the settings). Then you need to import the resulting file into your Google account: Gmail -> Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Import Mail and Contacts -> .VCF file. Further transfer actions on iOS repeat the above procedure with an iPhone.
The calendar
As in the case of contacts, your event calendar is automatically connected to your Google account, that is, we turn on the already familiar synchronization on the iPhone, only with the corresponding mark ("Calendar") and the transfer to iOS is completed.
If you do not want to contact Google, then you can perform a similar procedure using third-party applications. One of these is Copy My Data. This is an intelligent program for transferring to iOS not only a calendar, but also contacts. You need to install the utility on both of your devices and run the “move” wizard on the old gadget, then follow the simple instructions to synchronize with the new iPhone. The program operates on the same principle as Gmail: export from Android to a file, transfer to iOS is ready.
post office
Like the first two cases, it’s much easier to use an existing Google account. But if you decide to make iCloud the main mailer, then you will have to delve into the settings of Gmail. To transfer mail to iOS, we need the box of the same name - your mail@icloud.com.
The main steps you need to perform in the Gmail mailer. Click on “Settings”, then go to the section “Forwarding and POP / IMAP” and open a new window with the button “Add forwarding address”. The redirection wizard will prompt you to enter the @icloud address, after which you will need to click on the link in the received letter to obtain permission to forward. Now all letters will be sent to new mail in your iCloud account.
Bookmarks
On almost all Android devices, the Chrome browser from Google is installed by default. If he completely suits you and switches to the branded Safari you don’t want, then there will be no problems with synchronization. It is enough to install “Chrome” on the iPhone, then log in to your account and all your bookmarks will be in their places. Next, consider a more complex version of the Safari.
From the Chrome browser, you must export your bookmarks. To do this, go to the “Bookmark Manager” (Menu -> Bookmarks) and click on the “Management” section. Then select "Export to HTML" in the drop-down menu: indicate the file name and place for export.
The resulting file must be imported into the built-in “Internet Explorer” or Edge if you are working on the Windows 10 operating system: “Settings” -> “Import bookmarks from file”. Next, you need to connect your iPhone to the computer and run “iTunes”. After that, in the device’s properties, select “Synchronize browser bookmarks with Internet Explorer”. Upon completion of the procedure, all new data will be in the mobile version of Safari.
Photo and video
Everything is very simple here. We connect your old “Android” gadget to the computer via the USB interface and copy the necessary photos (usually the DCIM directory) and video files (Video, Download, etc.) to any folder on your hard drive.
Then you need to connect an iPhone in the same way and launch “iTunes”. In the menu you need to find the "Photos" section and select the synchronization, and then specify the folder into which the pictures were previously copied. For video, the procedure is similar.
If laziness is associated with Aityuns, then again the entire synchronization process can be transferred to the shoulders of the aforementioned Copy My Data program. In this case, just follow the instructions of the wizard to “move” and that’s it.
Applications
As for individual programs, everything here is not as rosy as with the rest of the data. If we are talking about some kind of online games or other applications where all personal information is attached to the server, then there should be no problems.
Popular toys are written, as a rule, on both the Android platform and iOS. Therefore, the progress of the passage and other information from the account will not go anywhere. All you need to do is install the “apple” version of the product on an iPhone and log in to your account.
But with other programs, alas, nothing can be done. All information in one form or another presented on local applications for Android will not be able to get on iOS in any way, so you just have to refuse it.