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.

Related: Top 3 ways to transfer contacts from Android to Android

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.

1. Connect Two Phones to PC

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.

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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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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