How to Transfer My Data to Switching from Android to an iPhone 5s or 5c

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If you are switching from an Android to the iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c, then you might be worried about transferring data from your old handset that the new phone. In the following section steps for transferring your data safely from Android device to the new iPhoneis discussed.

How to Transfer My Data to Switching from Android to an iPhone 5s or 5c

You can transfer data in two different ways. One method is using cloud services in which your files are stored in a different location and you can access it from all devices whenever you need it. In another method, you just pull your data off from your old phone and manually transfer it to your new phone using your computer as the conduit between the two phones. To transfer data using cloud services, you must have a cloud account.

Use Cloud services like Google, Dropbox and more

Android devices ties up well with Google’s suite of cloud services and you can access your contacts, calendar and emails stored in your online Google account by just connecting your iPhone to your google account. For getting calendar information, you can use Caldav, for contacts CardDav and for accessing email, you can use gmail app or IMAP. In a similar way, you can also pull downcontact information from Twitter and Facebook by setting up accounts on your phone. You need to turn on the “Contacts” toggle.

It is difficult to retrieve images from Google + cloud account. The best way is make use of Dropbox as the intermediary. Android and iOS both can connect to the images folder and upload or download images from it. You can set up Dropbox for photos easily. You just install the Dropbox app and enable the feature for the automatic photo uploads. There are many free iOS apps available on Google such as Google search, Gmail, Google Drive, Chrome, You Tube etc. that lets you access online accounts.

Manual Methods

If you want to transfer your data manually using your computer to transfer data, you need a USB sync cable and software that allows you to do so.

transfer data On your Android phone

To transfer Contacts: You have to move .VLC from your phone to the hard disk of a computer first. To transfer contacts from Android phone,

On your Android phone, 

  1. Go to your Contacts on the phone.
  2. Tap the menu button and then tap Import/Export.
  3. Tap Export to storage.
  4. Select the contact data you have to transfer and then Tap OK.
An Android device is connected to a PCusing either the USB cable or the SD card. A Mac user needs to install the Android File Transfer app. To move images, you can also use iTunes.

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