Buying a phone has always entailed a not-so-pleasant process of “moving” from an old device to a new one, but Lately In addition to the traditional transfer of contacts, the need for synchronization and other personal information. It’s good if your next smartphone is on the same platform as the previous one, but if you decide to “cross over to the enemy camp,” then the task becomes much more complicated. In this material we will look at 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 have previously chosen Gmail as your mailbox, there is nothing to worry about - just log into your account on your Android smartphone, and all your information will immediately become available on a new phone.

If you did not 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 on your phone, you need to connect your iCloud account and enable their synchronization (settings – iCloud – (log in to your account) – enable Contacts). Now they need to be “pulled out” from the cloud - to do this, open the page www.icloud.com on your computer, log in to 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 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” available, in which import does not yet work, you need to open the “More” list in a similar menu on the left, and select import, after which you will be asked to switch to the old version of this service). After this, all that remains is to enable contact synchronization in the settings of the new Android smartphone.

Calendar

Transferring events in a user calendar looks very similar - in the iCloud settings we enable calendar synchronization, on the website www.icloud.com we go to the appropriate section and in the list of available calendars we click on the Share icon to the right of its name. In the menu that appears, enable the Public Calendar option and copy the link that appears (webcal://….). We paste it into the address bar of the new page, replace webcal with http, and then press Enter - as a result, a file with a name of hundreds of characters and without an extension is downloaded to the computer. This is a regular text file, which can easily be given 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 in the drop-down menu and open the just downloaded file from your computer - after that, all the events from it will be added to your calendar on your Google account.

Mail

There shouldn’t be any problems with “moving” your mailbox - if you don’t use Gmail, but iCloud (or any other service), just search in Google Play any client that supports it - for example, Mailbox or myMail.

Bookmarks

Here we will consider the most common option - using the standard Safari browser on iOS and “moving” to Chrome and Firefox, popular on Android.

Transferring bookmarks from Safari is also carried out using iCloud (in the device settings, of course, you need to enable their synchronization), however, for this, it is not the resource website that is used, but the iCloud for Windows client.

In it you need to select “Bookmarks”, specify the browser (Chrome or Firefox) in the options, click Apply and select Merge. After this, the utility will offer to download the iCloud Bookmarks extension for one of these browsers, and as a result, your bookmarks from mobile Safari will appear in the desktop browser. If you chose Chrome, you don’t need to do anything further (provided that you are logged into your Google account). With Firefox, the task will be somewhat more complicated (especially if you have not used synchronization of user data in this browser before) - you need to set up synchronization in it, for which you need to log in to your Firefox account (or create one), do the same on your Android smartphone and enter the code received there in your desktop browser.

If you don’t want to install iCloud for Windows, you can use iTunes instead (to do this, syncing bookmarks with iCloud must be turned off in your smartphone’s settings). To do this, you need to connect your iPhone to your PC, launch iTunes, open the device page in it, go to the “Information” tab, find the “Other” item in it and select “Sync bookmarks with:” (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 need to launch it and export the bookmarks to an HTML file, and then import them in the standard way into the desktop versions of Chrome or Firefox, from where they are “sent” to Android in the manner described in the previous paragraph -smartphone.

Photo/video

To transfer photos/videos, you can use the Google+ Photos service - to do this, you need to install the official Google+ client on your iPhone, connect to your Google account and enable auto-upload for photos and videos, and then select the “Download all photos and videos” option. Once the download is complete, you will be able to see all your content in the Photos app on your 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 your iPhone to your computer via USB, open Explorer, right-click on the smartphone icon in the list of devices and drives and select “Import images and videos.” After this, an import window will appear in which you can configure the parameters of this procedure (select a folder, delete files after copying is completed, etc.). Now you just need to connect your Android smartphone to your PC and use Explorer to copy the resulting folder to its memory (or to an SD card).

Music

Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks when “moving” is, of course, if your music library is stored in iTunes, and not in the form of MP3 tracks organized into folders (in this case, the whole task comes down to simply copying files from your PC to your smartphone using any file manager).

Google itself recommends using its Google Play Music player, which can upload your iTunes library to its “cloud”, from which you can then listen to it not only on an Android smartphone, but also in a browser on a PC. To do this, you will have to install the Google Music Manager utility on your PC and indicate in it that your music library is in the iTunes library, and then wait for the download to complete (in total, the service currently allows you to download up to 50 thousand tracks, which will be more than enough for any user ).

If streaming your own music over the Internet doesn’t appeal to you, and you don’t want to bother with downloading each album separately (or you use another audio player instead of Google Play Music), you’ll have to turn to one of the third-party utilities. Unfortunately, they usually turn out to be shareware - such as iSyncr. This procedure can also be performed using the DoubleTwist audio player, for which there is a desktop client with an interface similar to iTunes.

ANDROID → iOS

As 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 on your old phone are linked to a Google account, transferring them will be a breeze. First, you need to make sure that contact synchronization is enabled on your Android smartphone (most likely, Settings – General – Accounts & Sync), and that the smartphone itself has connected to the Internet at least once since you last edited your contacts. Now it’s enough to add a new Gmail account in the iPhone settings (Settings - Mail, addresses, calendars) and enable synchronization for all available items (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Notes) - after which everything listed will appear in the new smartphone.

If you stored contacts locally, in the phone itself, then the task becomes a little more complicated - in the standard dialer you must first export all such contacts to a separate VCF file (in internal memory or to an SD card), and then import them back, but not into the phone’s memory, but into a Google account. Further actions, as you might guess, repeat the procedure described above. If your contacts application does not support import/export of all records en masse, you will have to edit each contact individually, manually transferring it to your Google account.

If you want to finally break with the “Google past,” you should import your contacts into iCloud. To do this, we create a copy of them in a VCF file (either on the phone, as described above, or on the website 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 the Import vCard item). Note that in the first case, you may receive an error message “Unable to import vCard” without any explanation - most likely this means that your VCF file was created in 2.x format, while iCloud requires the version not lower than 3.0.

Calendar

Google Calendar automatically connects to your new iPhone along with your contacts, mail, and notes (following the same steps above), so you don't need to take any additional steps (except make sure that your Google account settings for Calendar are also set to sync in your iOS settings). .

If you plan to give up your Google account, you should import the calendar into iCloud, and this is no longer 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 “Private calendar address” section, copy the proposed URL, paste it in a new tab and press Enter - after this an ICS file will be copied to your computer, which needs to be “fed” to the system application Calendar.

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 synchronize calendars with this program. You will need to import the resulting file into Outlook, then connect your iPhone to your PC, open iTunes on your device’s tab, go to the “Information” sub-item and select the desired calendar in the “Sync calendars” section. Another option is a third-party utility - for example, Copy My Data (Android, iOS), which can transfer not only the calendar, but also contacts, and photos/videos.

Mail

Of course, the easiest way is to continue using your old Gmail account, but you can also 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 the old address, you need to enable redirection for it - in Gmail, call up the settings (gear in the upper right corner), in which, in the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, add a new iCloud address using the button “ Add forwarding address." After that, a confirmation letter will be sent to it - click on the link, return to the Gmail settings and make sure that the correct address is indicated in the line “Forward copies of incoming messages to addresses:”, then click “Save changes”.

Bookmarks

Most likely, on Android you used Chrome, but on iOS you will switch to Safari (if you plan to continue using Chrome on iOS, you don’t need to read this section further - the browser itself 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”. We import the resulting HTML file into Internet Explorer, after which we connect the iPhone to the PC, launch iTunes and select “Synchronize bookmarks with: Internet Explorer” in the device properties. Just below, in the “Add-ons” section, check the box next to bookmarks and click “Apply” - after that your bookmarks will appear in mobile Safari.

Photo/video

Everything is simple here. We connect the Android smartphone to the PC via USB, copy photo and video files to any folder on the hard drive (usually they are located on the device in the DCIM folder), then connect the iPhone, launch iTunes, go to the “Photo” tab in the device menu and turn on synchronization, after which we select the folder in which the necessary files are located. If it contains a video, additionally check the box next to “Include video in synchronization.”

If you don’t have iTunes (and don’t want to install it), you can use third-party synchronization utilities - for example, the already mentioned Copy My Data, or PhotoSync (Android, iOS).

Music

Transferring music, like photos/videos, is also carried out simply, and according to the same scheme. The music library is copied from the Android smartphone to the PC, dragged into iTunes, after which synchronization is performed in the settings of the connected iPhone on the “Music” tab - either the entire library en masse, or only selected artists.

Results

As you can see, the procedure for transferring personal data, although quite troublesome, is ultimately solvable - after it all that remains is 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 article.

When you ask an iPhone owner why he hasn't bought a Nexus yet, you usually hear some vague excuses about music, photos, contacts, email and apps. The process of moving from iOS to Android seems complicated and difficult. Not really.

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

Transferring photos

• Download from App Store app Google+.

• 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, in the process of enabling autostart, the iPhone starts swearing 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 using iTunes on the 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 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 disable 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.

You can transfer your database from iOS to Android (or vice versa) using a one-time code that is created in the game. To do this, you need to have both devices (iOS and Android) at your fingertips.

To transfer the database, the account on the Apple device must be connected to Game Center, and the game on the Android device must be connected to Google+.

You can verify that your village is connected to Game Center on iOS by logging into the Game Center app and launching the game directly from there, from the Games tab.

On an Android device: open Boom Beach and connect your base to Google+ in the game settings by clicking on the “Google+” button.

To transfer the database, do the following:

• open Boom Beach on Android and iOS (old and new devices);
• On both devices, go to the game settings;
• Click the "Link Device" button on your old device;
• select "This is an old device" and then follow the instructions
• You will receive a code - write it down
• Click the "Pair Device" button on the new device
• Select "This is a new device" and enter the code that you received on your old device

IMPORTANT: When entering the code, do not use the space bar on the keyboard, as the program will freeze and you will not be able to enter any more characters.

Once you copy the transfer code from one device to another, your original base will be transferred to the second device and you will be able to play on the same account from both devices.

Not only in the market, but also in the eyes of previous users. And all because with the advent of another alternative, people strive to gain new experience and keep up with the times. One of the problems that stops iOS users from completely switching to Android may be the contents of the iPhone accumulated over the period of use. But this can be solved very simply - all content (photos, videos), contact list and even received messages can be easily transferred from one device to another.

Below are six simple steps to easily transfer contacts, calendar, notes, photos, videos, music and SMS messages (some) from your iPhone to your Android device:

Step 1: Google Account
So, the first step to work with our Android device is to register a Google Account. Select Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync > Add account > Google. If you do not have a Google account, you can create one directly through the device itself or. Follow the onscreen instructions to link your Gmail account to your new phone.
Step 2. Contacts
Now we need to transfer all contacts to the new device. To do this, connect your iPhone to your computer and launch iTunes. Click on the name of your iPhone, then head to the “Information” tab at the very top. Check "contact address book synchronization" and then check the box next to "Sync contacts with Google Contacts." Click the Setup button and enter the same account information just configured on your Android device. Hit Apply and allow iPhone to sync.
Step 3: Calendar and Notes
On your iPhone, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select Gmail and enter the data. After all the manipulations, we return to the Mail settings, click Gmail, and synchronize for calendars and notes. Within a few minutes, the calendar is synchronized with your Google Android device.
Step 4. Photos and videos
An easy way to transfer photos and videos.

• Windows: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open My Computer, right-click on your iPhone, and select File Explorer. Create a new folder on your desktop or another drive and drag all your photos and videos into it.
• Mac: Connect your iPhone to your computer and open the app called Image Capture. Set a new folder on your desktop as the destination and click Download All.

After we transfer all the necessary photos and videos to the computer, we will transfer everything to the Android device. Connect the device to the computer, a new window will appear and in it select the connection type “Disk drive” (connect as a disk). Now, on Mac or Windows, open your Android drive (shown as "Removable Disk" in Windows) and find a folder called "DCIM". Then drag the photos you want from your computer to the DCIM folder on your Android device.
P.S. It is not necessary to copy photos and videos exactly to the “DCIM” folder. You can create any folder on the memory card and copy the necessary photos and videos there.
Step 5. Music
The procedure for copying music is similar to Step No. 4. Create any folder on the memory card (for example Music or Music) and copy your favorite music compositions to this folder.
Step 6. SMS and voicemail
Bad news: doesn't exist simple way transfer your SMS and voicemail messages. If there are specific important messages and you want to save them, then go to the desired tab and click edit. Next, select the desired message in the upper right corner and click on the “forward” button at the bottom right. In the recipient field, enter your Google email address and click send.
* Some manipulations require an Internet connection

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they want to change something, including their smartphone. "Gazeta.Ru" has prepared detailed instructions on how to avoid losing all the information on it when changing the main device.

If the OS remains the same when changing the device, then there are no problems with data transfer in this case. For Android, it is enough to have a Google account, which stores everything from contacts to programs. With iOS, the story is similar: the first time you enter your Apple ID, the iPhone will immediately begin to restore all data from the previous phone.

However, when switching from one OS to another, the user is faced with the problem of transferring all photos, contacts, audio recordings, and other things. Knowing a few secrets, you can forever forget not only about this problem, but also about the possibility of losing all your data.

From iOS to Android

Some manufacturers, like Sony, produce their own solutions for transferring data from iPhone to Android smartphone, but they only work with a limited number of devices. In addition, there are universal ways to migrate from iOS to Android without losing information.

The first thing that needs to be transferred is contacts.

Before the transfer, you should check which account they are stored in in the “Mail, Addresses, Calendars” settings menu on your iOS device, and then in the “Default account” section of the “Contacts” section, check which account is standard. If Gmail is selected, then when you set up this account on Android, the contacts will slowly begin to download themselves.

In the case of iCloud, the process is somewhat more complicated. First of all, you need to upload contacts from the device to the Apple cloud, unless, of course, synchronization is already configured. This can be done in the same “Mail, Addresses, Calendars” menu by turning on the “Contacts” item in iCloud settings. Next, you will be asked to combine contacts from the cloud with those that are already on the device.

Now on your PC you need to go to the icloud.com website in your browser and log in with your Apple ID. In the "Contacts" section, select "Select All" by clicking on the gear in the lower left corner or using the combination Ctrl+A (CMD+A for Mac). After that, use the gear again to select the “Export vCard” item.

After that, on the Gmail website in "Contacts" In the “More” section you need to select “Import”. In the window that opens, add the saved vCard file. After this, all contacts will be saved in your Gmail account, so you can transfer them to your phone.

If you are using an email service other than iCloud and Gmail, then you need to use iTunes to your PC to transfer contacts. After connecting the device to iTunes, in the “Information” tab, select “Sync contacts with” and “Google contacts”. Next, you need to enter your Google account information and wait for the synchronization to complete.

Next in line are photos, which are much easier to transfer than contacts. To do this, you can use the Google Photos service, as it allows you to store an unlimited number of photos with a resolution below 16 megapixels and videos in FullHD. 15 GB is available to save content in original resolution.

First of all, you need to set up synchronization on your iOS device. After downloading the Google Photos app from App Store Log into the application from your Google account, give it access to photos and turn on the “Synchronization and auto-upload” item in the settings. Now all photos are stored in the cloud and can be accessed not only on the iPhone, but also on any other device with your account, including the web version of the service.

Purchased tracks from iTunes can also be downloaded using the standard Google Play Music app. To do this, you need to install the “Google Play Download Manager” on your computer, which will automatically download your media library from iTunes, Windows Media and folders on your computer to the “cloud” (with a limit of up to 50 thousand audio recordings). Access to the media library will be available both on Android and iOS devices through the Play Music application and in the browser.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to transfer applications. To do this, you need to manually search for each one in the Play Store application store.

From Android to iOS

With the release of iOS 9, the Cupertino team released its first Android application on the Play Store. The Android to iOS migration app has received a lot of haters and currently has a rating of 2.2/5. However, it performs its task perfectly, making the transition from Android to iOS using the Move to iOS app as convenient as possible.

When you start your iPhone for the first time, you will be prompted to transfer data from Android using Move to iOS. In this case, on an Android device version no lower than 4.0, launch the application and follow the instructions on the screen. You will be prompted to select the data you want to transfer. After selection, data transfer will begin, during which you cannot close the application or disconnect from the network.

The app can transfer your Google account, message history, contacts, calendar data, and music library. You will again have to download the applications yourself, including those for which you gave your hard-earned money.

However, you should still not neglect installing Google Photos and using other cloud services, since you will always have access to your photos and other information, regardless of the device and its operating system.