Switching from iPhone to Android, how to import photos and contacts

Time: 16/Nov By: kenglenn 435 Views

Have you read the Google Pixel reviews and convinced yourself to retire your old iPhone? Then you should proceed calmly: importing photos and contacts from iOS to Android is not as immediate as it might appear.Switching from iPhone to Android, how to import photos and contacts

Not that the operation is particularly complex, of course, but it will require several steps and operations that could cost you several minutes. It will therefore be necessary to arm yourself with calm and take an hour or two. If you have a lot of pictures to move from one device to another and your home ADSL connection speed isn't the best, things could take a long time: importing the pictures to the new phone, in fact, requires a line high-performance phone. However, if you don't have time problems, it will be sufficient to follow this guide step by step.

How to export contacts from iPhone to Android

There are several ways to move contacts from the iPhone address book to the Android phone address book.

If, for example, the iPhone phone's address book contains a dozen or so contacts, you can choose to send them via e-mail and import them directly into the address book of the green robot's new phone. To do this, you will need to access the Contacts application, enter each individual tab and press the Share button: choose emails from the various methods available and auto-send them to the email address you will use on your Android smartphone. Once received, you can download the email message attachment and import the contacts into your address book. A method, the one just described, very simple but equally cumbersome: not recommended, therefore, if the number of contacts exceeds fifteen or twenty.

iCloudSwitching from iPhone to Android, how to import photos and contacts

Alternatively, you can download all your contacts at once using the features of iCloud, Apple's cloud storage service. In fact, among the various elements automatically saved on the cloud, we also find the contacts from the iPhone address book: they can be downloaded in one go (even if they are several hundred) and imported as if they were a single block. From your home computer, open the iCloud home page and log in using your Apple account credentials (username and password also used on the App Store, just to be clear).

Second pass

Once inside, click on the Contacts icon to get a complete overview of the address book: by clicking on the cogwheel icon at the bottom left you can choose to download all the content in vCard format: click on Export vCard and save the file to your computer's hard drive.

Gmail

At this point there are two ways to go. The more "cumbersome" one requires you to connect your Android smartphone to your computer, move the vCard file you just created to the mobile device's memory and, from the Contacts app, import its contents. Otherwise, you can access Gmail from the browser using the credentials also used on the mobile phone, access the contact card and follow the import wizard: the address book will also be automatically synchronized on the new smartphone.Switching from iPhone to Android, how to import photos and contacts

How to move photos from iPhone to Android

This step is simpler and more immediate than what we have just seen for exporting contacts from the iPhone address book. In this case, in fact, it will be sufficient to install the same application on both devices that will carry out the "dirty work". In particular, it is advisable to install Google Photos, an application for managing photo galleries hand in hand with Google Drive, the cloud storage service created by Big G.

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Users who have a Google account (however necessary to take full advantage of all the features of Android smartphones), in fact, can save photos taken with the mobile phone camera directly within their cloud storage space. If you are "satisfied" with an 8 megapixel resolution, you will have unlimited space available; if, on the other hand, you want to archive the images at their maximum resolution, you will "gnaw" the space available on Google Drive.Switching from iPhone to Android, how to import photos and contacts

Google Photos

First of all, therefore, you need to download Google Photos from the App Store and log in with your Google account credentials. At this point the app will guide you through the configuration process, asking which folders to synchronize in the cloud and which resolution of images to upload online and you're (almost done) there. To do this, you need to start Google Photos by selecting the menu icon followed by the gear icon at the top right. From here, go to Camera and photos and select the Backup and sync option to activate it. Now you will need to be patient: depending on the number of photos to be saved and the connection speed of the home line, this operation could take from many minutes to a few hours. And the same is true when you need to import photos into your Android smartphone: the only thing you have to do is download Google Photos and log in, but downloading images from the cloud could take some time.

How to transfer music from iPhone to Android

The transition from iPhone to the new Android is almost complete. What remains to be done, after exporting the contacts and backing up the photos and images, is to bring the music and audio tracks saved in the memory of the iPhone to that of the green robot's mobile phone. Also in this case the support of a computer, some software and a good Internet connection will be necessary.

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To transfer music from iPhone to Android smartphone, first of all, connect the iPhone to the computer and make a backup using iTunes. Once all audio tracks are saved on your PC hard drive you will need to download the Google Play Music Manager client and install it on your device. After installation, the program will show the user a wizard to synchronize one or more audio folders in the cloud: thanks to Google services, you can save up to 50,000 songs for free and always have them available on any device, smartphone or tablet. computer makes little difference, whether it is connected to the Internet. As seen in the case of the photos, also on this occasion the time required to backup the iPhone songs will depend on the quality of the Internet connection: the faster the telephone line used, the faster the files can be transferred from one device to the other. other.

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