Phone to Phone Data Transfer: May 2016

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.
Make sure that the old iPhone works as "Source" and the new iPhone as "Destination"; if not, please click "Flip" to change the position.
Click "Contacts" that you want to transfer, and click "Start Copy" to copy the iPhone contacts to another iPhone.

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