Tuesday, December 27, 2016

How to Transfer Photos from iCloud to PC?

Most iPhone users would like to upload pictures to iCloud, but they have difficulty in transferring those photos from iCloud to PC. Are you still using the way that downloading the pictures from iCloud Photo library within Photos app on iPhone or iPad? This post is going to show you a direct way to move them from iCloud to a computer.

If you want to transfer photos from iPhone to Android/ iPhone, you can try Gihosoft Phone Transfer program.
iCloud.com is accessible from nearly any web browser on any OS, that means no matter you’re on a Mac or Windows PC, Android, or Linux, you’ll be able to download the pictures from iCloud this way:
  1. Open a web browser and go to iCloud.com, then log in with your Apple ID
  2. Click the “Photos” icon after you logged in
  3. Select a photo you want to download and click on the cloud-shaped icon to download the photo, if you want to download more photos from iCloud, please repeat this step to get them.
When you finish the downloading process, go to check where the photos are saved by default. The photos will be stored in the original resolution there.

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Download picture from iCloud to PC in batches
Now you may ask if there is an easy way to download all photos at a time without manually repeating downloading the photos one by one which is time-consuming. Here is a simple one most people are not in the know:
  1. When you logged in iCloud on your computer, choose the “All Photos” album.
  2. Scroll to the very bottom of the All Photos album and click the “Select Photos” button in the top of the iCloud Photos bar
  3. Hold down the Shift key and click on the very last picture in the album which will help select every photo in the All Photos album
  4. With all of the photos selected, choose the “Download” button at the top of the iCloud Photos bar
  5. Click “Download” on the pop-up message to confirm that you want to download all of the selected items
The selected photos will be finally downloaded in a folder on your PC.

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Friday, December 9, 2016

Must Known Ways to Transfer Music to Huawei Mate 9/P9 from Computer/iTunes

Huawei Mate 9 is reported to be the newest and most powerful Mate series phone equipped with the latest Kirin 960, 4000mAh battery, announced on 2016, November. State-of-the-art HUAWEI SuperCharge technology safely charges the device for a full day’s power in 20 minutes. The P9 is another accomplished smartphone from Huawei, with an innovative camera setup and plenty of power under the hood, announced in the first half year of 2016. When you get any of these two phones, I believe you won’t be disappointed. You might have some amazing songs on your computer or iTunes, and want to transfer them to the new Huawei phone. This post simply introduces two methods.

Method 1: Copy Music from Computer to Huawei Mate 9/ P9
  • Connect your Huawei cell phone to computer via USB cable
  • Double-click "Computer" on the desktop, and then double-click your phone's removal disk in the "Drivers" section.
  • Double-click the "Music" folder. Drag music from your computer to the Music folder.
  • Close the Music folder and disconnect your phone from your computer.
  • Launch the media player on your phone's home screen and select the song you want to play.

Method 2: Transfer Music from iTunes to Huawei Mate 9/ P9
iTunes, born for Apple products, is really exotic to phones with Android System. When comes to moving data like music from iTunes to Huawei phone, it will be a little hard to put the music on it for some people who are not always tinkering with mobile phones. Thus, Gihosoft Phone Transfer is highly recommended to you, which is a powerful program to support tons of smartphones.

  1. Download Gihosoft Mobile Transfer and run it, choose "From iTunes Backup" from the "Restore Data" section. 
  2. Connect the Huawei Mate phone to PC via USB and wait for the program to detect it. 
  3. Select an iTunes backup. (If you cannot find the backup file you want to transfer, you may need to sync your music to the iTunes first.)
  4. Choose the “Music” file and click “Start Copy” to export iTunes music.


After transferring, you can check out the songs on your Huawei mobile.

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Friday, November 25, 2016

How to Transfer Music from iPhone/iTunes to Android like HTC Bolt

HTC Bolt was rolled out by Sprint earlier this month, as an “advanced” version of HTC 10. This isn’t really the case, but to be fair the HTC Bolt does come with a few perks. Like the fact that it runs Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. Some iPhone users probably want to switch the old phone to this new HTC Bolt phone. When they get the new HTC smartphone, if they want to transfer their purchased music from iPhone to HTC Bolt mobile, how to do?

Gihosoft Mobile Data Transfer software can help you transfer music files from iPhone/iTunes to HTC Bolt phone in a click without compromising the integrity of quality. Using it, you’re also allowed to transfer other files including SMS, contacts, photos, videos and calendar in a breeze.


How to Transfer Music from iPhone to HTC Bolt?

Step 1. Connect The Two Phones to Computer via USB
Launch the tool and you’ll see an intuitive user interface. Please tap on "Phone to Phone" and connect your iPhone and HTC Bolt to computer via USB cable.

Step 2. Select Music for Transferring from iPhone to Android
Please tick on Music to make it selected. If you need to transfer more files, please select the file types according to your liking.

Step 3. Start to Transfer iPhone Music to Android Phone
Please hit “Start Copy” and then the software will do all the rest work at high speed. The duration depends on the music file quantity stored on your iPhone. A progress bar will show you that how many songs have been successfully transferred and how many files are pending.

How to Copy Music from iTunes to HTC Bolt?
Step 1. Switch to iTunes to Phone Transfer Mode
This software is powerful enough to transfer music from iTunes to Android phones, and even move music and video clips between smartphones. Currently, there are two modes. Please click “From iTunes Backup” in "Restore Data" option to go ahead.

Step 2. Choose and Check iTunes Backup Copy
Once you switched to the mode, the software will list all your iTunes backup copy, please tick the correct one.
  • If you have ever moved the iTunes backup copy from default path to other path, you’ll need to select the backup folder manually by clicking “Select” button.
  • If you have never backed up your iOS device files to this computer, please use iTunes to sync music files firstly.

Step 4. Start Transferring iTunes Music/Songs to Android

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Best Way to Backup and Transfer SMS from Android to Computer

As we all know, text messages are not easy to be moved from an Android phone to your computer. Not like photos, musics and videos which can be copied from phone to PC via USB cable, the easy way to get SMS transferred is rely on a third-party app such as Gihosoft Mobile Transfer.

Tutorial on using SMS backup & Restore to transfer messages (More details here):
  • Step 1. Go to Gihosoft official site and download SMS Backup & Restore app.
  • Step 2. Open the app and tap “Backup Your Phone” to create a backup for SMS on your Android phone.
  • Step 3. Use USB cable to connect your Android phone to the computer.
  • Step 4. When your phone is connected successfully, please mark "SMS" you need. 
  • Step 5. Click on "Start Copy" to transfer text messages from Android to computer. 

Generally, Android SMS that you transfer to PC are saved as  HTML file, which allows you easily view or print text messages on your browser. 

If you want to transfer text messages from your Android phone to a new iPhone, you can also use Gihosoft Phone Transfer program to get them moved seamlessly.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

2 Ways to Copy Music to iPhone from iTunes/Computer/Android Phone

When talking about transferring music/mp3 to iPhone, I guess the first way occurs in your mind would be using iTunes to transfer music backup to your iPhone. However, there are some downsides on moving files from iTunes to iPhone device. If you move the synced music/mp3 to your iPhone, the existing music/mp3 on the phone will be replaced by the synced ones. Thus, if you really want to import music/mp3 from iTunes to your iPhone, you’d better make a backup for your existing music/mp3 first. Below I’ll show how to transfer music/mp3 from iTunes to iPhone.

Step1. Drag songs from computer to iTunes
Download the newest iTunes version to your PC(if you have one, pls update it to the newest version), then launch it and click on the "File" on the top left corner of the interface, next choose "Add File to Library" (add music files to iTunes one by one)or "Add Folder to Library"(add all song files in a folder to iTunes at one time).

Step2. Connect your iPhone to the Computer via USB cable
When the iPhone is successfully connected with PC, the iPhone icon will show up on the top left bar.

Step3. Transfer music to iPhone
Click your iPhone icon and choose "Music” in the setting menu. Then select "Sync Music" so that you can choose either "Entire music library" or "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres".

Supposing that you choose "Entire music library" and click "Apply" in the bottom right corner, then all songs in iTunes music library will be moved to your iPhone.

If you prefer to sync some of songs in iTunes music library to iPhone, please choose "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" which will list all songs there for you to choose. After checking the songs you like, next to click "Apply" and wait a moment for the synchronization to complete.

Finally you can enjoy those songs on your iPhone.

If you don't want the existed files on your iPhone to be covered, you may try to use Gihosoft iPhone Music Transfer software, which can help export music from iTunes/one mobile phone to your iPhone.

Steps to move iTunes music to iPhone:
  • Step 1. Download the tool and run it. Click “From iTunes Backup”in the "Restore Data" section.
  • Step 2. Select your iPhone backup, and tick the “Music” file. (If you cannot find the backup file you want to transfer, you may need to sync your iPhone to iTunes first.)
  • Step 3. Connect your iPhone to the PC via USB, and then click “Start Copy” to transfer iTunes music to your iPhone.

If you wan to transfer music from one Android phone to your iPhone, you just need to click "Phone to Phone" section in the main screen and connect both the Android phone and iPhone to the PC.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Best Samsung Smart Switch Alternative for Phone Transfer

What’s Samsung Smart Switch?
As the official Samsung said: “Samsung Smart Switch makes it easy to transfer contacts, photos, messages and more from your old phone to your new Galaxy”, attention to the last few words, it only allows users to transfer data from old smartphone to new Samsung Galaxy, not yet supports the other way around. What if we users want to transfer data from Samsung to another phone like LG or iPhone?

Due to such an awkward feature, we’ll need another Mobile Phone Transfer tool to replace as a perfect Samsung Smart Switch alternative.

Why should We choose Gihosoft Phone to Phone Transfer?
Above all, Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is for free to download and get your phone data moved between phones. Most of software today charges you, while this phone transfer tool doesn’t cost you. And please rest assured, the software is reliable and efficient to help transfer phone data. Isn’t it a really good thing to know? Moreover, it’s compatible with thousands of mobile phones and many phone brands, users can use it to transfer data between any two phones. 

As one of Gihosoft’s main products, Mobile Transfer always attempts to update to a better version as to live up to users’ expectations. It’s satisfying that Mobile Phone Transfer is capable of moving almost all files without loss of original quality at present. The file likes Contacts, SMS, Call Logs, Calendar, Photos, Videos, Music, Apps or other phone files can be copied from Android to Android, Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android, iTunes to Android or iPhone to iPhone.

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3 Steps and Few Clicks to Move Data
Since the software is free to try, you can download it on PC and check it out if it works on the phone. Once started, it can enable you to transfer files from source phone to the destination phone in 3 steps: connect phones, select file types which you need to send to new smartphone, transfer specified files.

Do remember to turn on the debugging mode to authorize the PC to access to the phones.

2. Select file(s) to transfer
You may choose the exact file(s) that you want to transfer. 

3. Transfer the certain file(s)
Click “Start Copy” to get your chosen file(s) copied to the other phone.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

How to Play Pokemon Go and Get It Transferred from Phone to Phone?

The Pokemon game is already proving insanely popular. Within 24 hours of its launch, it’s reported that it has crashed company servers and caused shares in Nintendo to surge by 10 per cent.

Players can scan their surroundings while out and about and if they’re lucky, a wild Pokemon might pop up on their screen for them to grab. They can then throw a ‘Poke Ball’ at it in an attempt to capture the Pokemon and add it to their collection.

You may have stumbled onto this page knowing nothing about Pokemon. No problem, let’s discover something incredibly interesting on Pokemon together.

First of all, you have to name and customize your Avatar and choose the gender, skin color and other basic features. You’ll level up as a Pokemon Trainer as you progress with costumes added. Then Willow gives you a Poke ball and sends you off to catch your first Pokemon-- one of the original starter trio from the original Pokemon Red and Blue,  Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle. If you walk away from these trio to make them disappear finally, the Pikachu will show up for you. By the way the Pokemon you encounter depends on where you are in the real world. If you’re around the places with water, you will meet more water-types.

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To evolve your Pokemon, you’ll need to collect Candies and Stardust which will be gained in the process. You can walk fast or take bus to speed up the velocity to make Poke ball hatch out. You need to consider health points(HP), when the HP drop to zero, use either a Revive token or a Potion to boost their health. Due to the high battery consumption of using camera and GPS, you’d better toggle on Battery Saver mode.

In a conclusion, Pokemon is so popular, kind of sweeping the world. Pokemon is now officially out in more than 30 countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and UK. A great numbers of people are crazy about playing it, but here comes a question: what if you are changing your phone to another smartphone? If you got another phone, could you transfer all of the Pokemon data to from the old phone? Of course you can. By using Gihosoft Phone Transfer software, you are allowed to transfer pokemon app to the other mobile device. 

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Why is Snapchat So Popular (4 Reasons)?

2015 is a milestone year for Snapchat, it is reported that the average daily numbers of video visits reach 6 billion per day in the last month of 2015 which has increased by 4 billion compared to that of May. The biggest social media in the world by far is no doubt to be Facebook which scores 8 billion for such daily visits. Though more traffic leads to Facebook, the significantly increasing statistic of Snapchat cannot be ignored in some way, because people can access to Facebook through more ways like app, mobile website and desktop website while users  can only reach to Snapchat via the app itself.

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This article lists 4 reasons for why Snapchat is so popular and cannot be neglected even by the Big Facebook?

1. The number of users of Snapchat is in rapid growth
According to what CEO of Snapchat Evan Spiegel said in May 2015, the active users of Snapchat per day came close to 100 million. The users are not a big deal compared to the 600 million users of WeChat and 320 million users of Twiiter in the same period, but the advantages of Snapchat is obvious. Some researchers regard Snapchat as a social media which grows faster than others in 2014 like Instagram, Pinterest Facebook and Messenger.

2. High activity
Based on a statistic, 65% of 100 million Snapchat users prefer to share their photos while 126 in 947 million users only post a twit once a month. That’s to say, Snapchat has got a magic bean to appeal users to share their life somehow than other main social medias. In UK, 75% social media traffic of Vodafone flows to Snapchat.

3. 21st century generation are crazy about Snapchat
In USA, 60% Social media users are among 13-24 age, and 26% are among 25-34 age. And what need to pay attention to here is that 60% social media users of 13-24 age are the users of Snapchat. The popularity of Snapchat among young generation are more than the well-known Vine and Tumblr.

4. Time urgency
The crucial reason for the popularity of Snapchat undoubtedly lies to its feature of removing the sharing stuff in a period, namely the content that users post will disappear within 24 hours. This kind of novel function generates a sense of urgency which make users afraid of missing some interesting things and want to catch them in time.

Are you using Snapchat? I guess the answer is more likely to be “Yes”. Then you will confronted with a issue when you got a new phone-- how to transfer the app to your new iPhone for remaining the information stored inside. However, you don’t have to give some thoughts about it if you download Gihosoft Phone Transfer that has power to transfer your app from phone to phone.

Here is a tutorial on transferring data from iPhone to Android, you may refer to it and get your apps moved.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

3 Ways to Transfer Contacts from iPhone to Android

It’s reported that generally the market share of Android has been increased to over 70% while the share of iOS is beginning to slide. Whatever the reason is for such phenomenon, the fact is that there will be a trend of more smart phone users swaping iPhone to Android Phone.

Copying contacts from iPhone to Android might be the very first thing to do when you got a brand new Android phone. The process is not too complicated to do, but it requires a few steps and a little time which actually depend on the method you choose, and this blog will show you three ways to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android more easily.

Transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

This is supposed to be the most convenient way among the four solutions which are going to be explained below.

Step 1. Download and install Gihosoft Phone Transfer

A free trial version is available on the phone transfer official website, which can only allow you to transfer 10 contacts from iPhone to Android phone for free. If you buy the software, you are refrained from exporting contacts within a limited amount. Once you registered the software, feel free to move any files such as contacts, SMS, calendar, photos, videos, music and even apps, from iPhone to other Android smartphones.

Step 2. Connect iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S7/S8 to PC

When you open Gihosoft mobile phone transfer software, please tap "Phone to Phone" and then connect both iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S6/S7 edge/S8 to your PC via USB cable. If your Samsung Galaxy phone or iPhone fails to be recognized, you may unplug it and retry again.

Step 3. Select the file you want to transfer from iPhone to Android 

What you need to do is to tick “Contacts” on the middle of interface screen. If you need to transfer other files, you should select the files that you need to transfer from iPhone to new Android phone.

Step 4. Start transferring contacts from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S7/S8

Once you click “Start Copy” button, the software will immediately begin transferring the iPhone contacts to the Samsung Galaxy. All information related to the contacts such as profile, name, title, company and email address will be completely copied to the Android phone.

An Alternative way to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android

iTunes is Apple’s powerful software that is able to backup loads of data from iPhone and sync the data to other smartphones. When moving phone data like contacts to other phones, the latest version of iTunes would be highly recommended.

iPhone:
1. Launch the latest iTunes and plug your iPhone to the PC via USB cable.
2. Navigate to the device settings and go to “Info” tab.
3. Tick “Sync Contacts with” under the tab, and select “Google Contacts” from the drop-down list.
4. Enter your Gmail username and password on the pop-up prompt as an admission of syncing contacts.

Samsung Galaxy:
1. Navigate to Settings > Accounts (and Sync)
2. Add “Google account” and tick “Sync Contacts” to allow google to sync contacts to your new phone

Last but not least method to move contacts from iPhone to Android

iCloud, another service provided by Apple, is created to backup iPhone files with limited storage space, if you need more space, you have to pay for it. However, it is fairly useful to transfer small files like contacts from iPhone to Android.

1. Navigate to Settings> iCloud> enter iCloud username and password to sign in.
2. Tab “Contacts” to sync iPhone contacts with iCloud server under network.
3. Export contacts stored in a VCF file from iCloud, then copy the VCF file to the Android phone via USB or other third party tools.
4. Open Android phone, go to “Contacts”> “More”> “Import/Export contacts”> Import from VCF file.

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Monday, June 13, 2016

iOS to Android: Transfer Data from iPhone to Android Devices

iOS system and Android system stand at the opposite position since they were born, and there are pros and cons in these two systems. Some may be into iOS system, so they get iPhone, while some may be big fans of Android system, then they will go to Samsung, LG or HTC. No matter what kind of phone you own now, you are bound to switch to another phone one day which may be iPhone or Android phone. At that time, an issue would occur-- transferring your precious data from iPhone to Android or Android to iPhone. But how?

This article is structured to give some ideas how to transfer data from iPhone to your new Android phone.

There exits many ways to transfer data from an iPhone to a new Android phone, and here comes a common simple method-- transferring data from iPhone to Android by using USB cable.
  1. Plug your iPhone to PC via a USB cable, and then choose “Import Pictures and Videos” for an automatic transfer (or open the device and individually select the files that you want to move)
  2. After completely backed up your phone files on the PC, please connect the Android phone to the PC
  3. Drag and Drop the back-up files to your Android phone

This way should be wildly known by every smartphone user, but the flaw of adopting it to transfer phone data is that using USB cable cannot move contents like contacts and call log. Therefore, another way to copy iPhone data to Android would be necessary.  

Samsung Smart Switch plays a fantastic role in migrating data from a smartphone to a Samsung Galaxy, such as Galaxy S8/S8+/S7/S7 edge, S6/S6 edge, S5 and other Samsung models. If you are planning on moving to a shiny new Samsung Galaxy, you probably want to familiarize yourself with this tool. With that in mind, let’s take a quick tour through Samsung Smart Switch.

Smart Switch are designed for three versions-- Windows version, Mac version and phone application. In the eventuality that you are transferring data from iPhone to Galaxy S6/S7 via Smart Switch app, the very first thing that you should do is to plug your iPhone to PC and using the desktop version of Smart Switch to pull data from iTunes or iCloud for later copying them to Galaxy S6/S7; the next step is to turn your Galaxy phone on and tap “yes” when prompted to use Smart Switch to receive data from iPhone; finally you are allowed to move contents to the Galaxy.

Admittedly Smart Switch is not bad for Samsung Phone transferring, but for other smartphones--iPhone, LG, HTC, Sony, Nexus and other models, it is still kind of a hassle. That’s why Gihosoft Phone Transfer software comes out, the supported devices of this software has prodigiously expanded to thousands of smartphones.  

Only few steps enable you to copy data from iPhone to Android or Android to iPhone in one click, please follow the below tutorial to transfer.
  1. Download and install it on your desktop, then tap on "Phone to Phone" section.
  2. Connect your iPhone and the new Android Phone to your PC, make the iPhone as “Source” Phone and the Android Phone as “Destination”
  3. Select data that you want to migrate, then click “Start Copy” to transfer the data

After the transferring process is completed, you are able to find them on your Android phone.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to iPhone (or an iPad)

Getting thousands of photos on your old iPhone but have no idea how to easily transfer photos from the old iPhone to your new iPhone? Usually the AirDrop on the iPhone may be a better option of transferring pictures from iPhone to iPhone, nevertheless, when it comes to transferring large photos, it would fall into failure. You may say iTunes can also do this work, it can definitely work if you don’t mind losing the existed photos on your iPhone.


Someone may ask: Is there a way that can transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone or iPad fast and meanwhile keep the existed photos?

The answer is one hundred percent Yes”, Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer would be a great alternative for iPhone users or smart phone users.

You can transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone/iPad in just a click via using Gihosoft Phone Transfer software. The software enables you to transfer pictures from an iPhone to a new iPhone/iPad in an efficient and safe way. Moreover, pictures synced from iTunes in PC can also be copied to iPhone/iPad. Generally speaking, Gihosoft Mobile Transfer is a technological implementation of seamless data sharing,  which helps  you to transfer video, music, contacts, apps and other files from iPhone to iPhone or other smartphones.

PLEASE follow the steps below to transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone via Gihosoft Phone Transfer:

1. Download and run Gihosoft phone to phone transfer software on your PC,  tap "Phone to Phone" and plug both of your old iPhone and a new iPhone to PC;
2. Make sure that the old iPhone connects as “Source” and the new iPhone as “Destination”; if not, please click “Flip” to change the position;
3. Click “Photos”, and then click “Start Copy” to transfer pictures from iPhone to iPhone.

Do you know any other ways to transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone or iPad? Any comments on this topic are welcome here.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

How to Transfer iTunes Music to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6

Samsung and Apple are widely reckoned as two major giant smart phone manufacturers in the word. At present, they are reported to be respectively representative of Android phones and iOS phones. Every time either Samsung or Apple is about to release a new mobile phone, especially Samsung Galaxy series and new version of iPhone, it will be analyzed by phone lovers with the newest phone of the other brand. Therefore, it is no wonder that some people have Samsung phone and iPhone both.

With increasing space of phone storage, a great amount of phone users take their smart phone as a mobile Music phone. For those persons not in the know, they really need an efficient tool to transfer their loads of iTunes Music to the Samsung phone when they got a new Samsung galaxy phone like S8/S8+. How to do it?

The editor summarizes two easy-to-follow methods to put their music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy phone.


Way 1: Using Samsung Smart Switch to Sync iTunes Music to Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Smart Switch  developed by Samsung can connect your Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/S8 to PC. It's useful and easy for you to move your music from iTunes to your phone, and it's available to download on the Samsung official website, the following introduction on transferring music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6 by using Smart Switch on your Windows PC or Mac.

  • Step 1. Download the Samsung Smart Switch of Windows version from Samsung website, then install and run it.
  • Step2. Plug your Samsung Galaxy phone to the PC via USB. As your Galaxy phone is connected, click “Restore”> “Select a different backup”, then choose “iTunes backup data”.
  • Step3. Select proper iTunes backup file, and tick “Music”, lastly click “OK” > “Restore now” to start the transferring.

Way2: Using Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer to move music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy

To some users, Samsung Smart Switch may be a not bad tool to transfer music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S6/S7/S8, but it is a pity that Smart Switch cannot cover some older Samsung series such as Galaxy S2. What if you have a smartphone which it cannot support? No worries,  Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is highly recommended to you, it is a powerful tool to support almost all of smartphones released in the world.

  • Step 1.  Download Gihosoft Phone to Phone Transfer and run it. Then click “From iTunes Backup” from "Restore Data" section.
  • Step 2. Select your iPhone backup, and tick the “Music” file. If you fail to find the backup file, you may sync your music to the iTunes first.
  • Step 3. Plug  the Samsung Galaxy phone to the PC via USB,  then click “Start Copy” to transfer the music to your Samsung Galaxy.

YouTube Demo on How to Transfer Music from iTunes to Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6


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Monday, May 16, 2016

How to Transfer Contacts from Old iPhone to New iPhone 7/7 Plus

In reference to moving contacts from an iPhone to another iPhone, most people are inclined to count on iTunes or iCloud to move the data. However, actually there are some limitations to use these two tools to transfer data to another iPhone.

Let’s analyze the limitations on using iTunes and iCloud to transfer data like contacts, apps, videos and photos from iPhone to iPhone.

The features of using iTunes to backup:

1. Perfect for the users who always use PC, NB and Mac
2. No limitation for the storage space
3. Many large files like photos and apps can be backup in your iPhone
4. Fast to backup

The features of using iCloud to backup:

1. Perfect for the users who can reach Wi-Fi and 3G/4G network all the time
2. Only 5G storage space for free to backup
3. Few large files can be backup in your phone
4. Convenient to use without relying on PC

Note: The two tools only can backup the files downloaded from iPhone, that is to say, the files downloaded from PC and put in the iPhone cannot be backup.

Taking these features of iTune and iCloud into consideration, Gihosoft Phone to Phone Transfer is perfectly designed to transfer phone data, such as contacts, photos, apps and videos, from iPhone to iPhone or Android to iPhone. It is able to move the phone contacts under no Wi-fi circumstance, moreover, you don’t need to worry the “space” issue. If many persons at home use the same iTunes to back up iPhone files, or you are not using your own PC outside, there will be a problem to use iTunes to back up your personal files. Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is considered to be a better tool to copy contacts from iPhone to iPhone, because it can be used everywhere and anytime.

  1. Download and run Gihosoft Phone Transfer software on your PC, tap on "Phone to Phone" and connect both of your old iPhone and new iPhone with the PC.
  2. Make sure that the old iPhone works as "Source" and the new iPhone as "Destination"; if not, please click "Flip" to change the position.
  3. Click "Contacts" that you want to transfer, and click "Start Copy" to copy the iPhone contacts to another iPhone.


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