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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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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