Solution 1: The easiest way to transfer all the iPhone contacts to Android is by using an iOS to Android data transfer tool like PanFone Mobile Data Transfer. It gives you the ability to transfer all your data including photos, messages, call history, photos, videos and more from one device to another with a single click. This program is compatible with every leading Android and iPhone model. You can transfer your data from iPhone to Android and vice-versa. It supports the newest Samsung Galaxy S10, iPhone XS.
PanFone Mobile Data Transfer can offer other features as well. It can restore iTunes and iCloud data to devices conveniently as well as backup your phone data and restore later:
1. Transfer files between Android and iOS, including contacts, photos, music, SMS, and more.
2. Backup phone data and restore in lossless quality.
3. Recover iTunes/iCloud backup to iOS or Android devices.
4. Sync media files from iTunes Library to devices.
Solution 2: You can also choose to migrate your contacts from iPhone to Android without computer. You can also use your Google account to sync and transfer all your contacts from iPhone to Android phone.
Step 1: Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account under the Settings menu of your iPhone and tap on “Google”.
Step 2: Sign-in with your Google account and grant your phone the needed permissions to access your Gmail data.
Step 3: Now, you can go back to your Google account from here and turn on the sync option for “Contacts”.
Step 4: Once your contacts are synced with your Google account, you can easily access them on any Android device. You can use the Google Contacts app or simply use the same account to set up your device for auto-sync of contacts.
Just sync contacts with sim card and then move it to new Android device, it's the easiest and fastest way.
Also,you can use iCloud/iTunes/contact app to do this.
Also think a copy/clone app should suffice...
Did I hear that using the icloud.com option through pc and then later connect the android phone, do this works?
Using google contacts is probably the easiest option, especially if you want to keep your contacts in sync across multiple devices.
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Did I hear that using the icloud.com option through pc and then later connect the android phone, do this works?
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yes, that works for me.
Is there an open source software solution to export iphone contacts to a .vcf file? Getting stuck in the Apple ecosystem without using iCloud seems to be an impossible situation.
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I am well aware that none of my apps will be portable unless somebody made an Android version that I can re-download, and that I obviously cannot carry over any of my settings either.... but does anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best way to port over contacts, documents (and convert them into whatever Android uses for it's equivalent of Office, if necessary) and other such data if one wants to make the switch from Windows Mobile to android? Either re-flashing their phone to run Android or just buying a new Android phone?
Embracing the Google account is the best thing. Adding everything to the 'cloud' gives you a permanent storage solution with the benefit of being able to sync it all to your device when you need it.
Contacts to Gmail Contacts
Pictures to Picasa
Documents and random files to Google Docs
Calender to Google Calender
..and so on.
What apps are you looking for Android versions of?
Sorry for taking a while to reply.
So then how would I go the Google route? Its a shame I will lose my call and IM logs but its not like I would expect such data to work between different operating systems.
Photos aren't an issue since I store those on MicroSDHC, I mostly cared about all my contact information and switching my MS Office Mobile formatted documents to whatever Android uses in it's place, even though those are on MicroSD too. The only real data I keep on the phone itself is installed apps and contacts.
And don't worry about my apps, at this point there really isn't any Windows Mobile app I care about anymore.
Just create a Google account and sign into that account on your Android phone. If you've added your contacts through the contacts section in Gmail they will automatically be synced to your phone.
Any settings, browser bookmarks etc, on your phone will sync and be backed up to your Google account.
The contacts were all added through my phone or though backups apps, none were added through Google, will it still back them all up?
From : Google's chief
Eric’s Guide:Converting to Android from iPhone
Many of my iPhone friends are converting to Android. The latest high-end phones from Samsung (Galaxy S4), Motorola (Verizon Droid Ultra) and the Nexus 5 (for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) have better screens, are faster, and have a much more intuitive interface. They are a great Christmas present to an iPhone user!
Here are the steps I recommend to make this switch. Like the people who moved from PCs to Macs and never switched back, you will switch from iPhone to Android and never switch back as everything will be in the cloud, backed up, and there are so many choices for you. 80% of the world, in the latest surveys, agrees on Android.
1. Set up the Android phone
a) Power on, connect to WiFi, login with your personal Gmail account, and download in the Google Play Store all the applications you normally use (for example, Instagram).
b) Make sure the software on the Android phone is updated to the latest version (i.e. 4.3 or 4.4). You should get a notification if there are software updates.
c) If you are using AT&T, download the Visual Voicemail app from the Play Store.
d) You can add additional Gmail accounts now or later.
At this point, you should see all your Gmail, and be able to use any apps and they should work well. Be sure to verify this.
2. Update your iPhone or iPad
a) Power on, connect to WiFi, make sure your Gmail is logged in, and upgrade all of the iPhone software to the latest iPhone software release (typically iOS 7+).
b) Check that you are using iCloud to back up contacts. Go to iCloud (in Settings) and enable that for contacts (“on”). If not using iCloud, go ahead and sign up for it. (The latest Mavericks requires the use of iCloud for Mac users if you want to transfer contacts.)
c) For your personal Gmail account, in Settings/Mail, turn on sync for contacts. In the latest iOS, this should sync your Gmail contacts and iPhone contacts.
d) In Settings/Messages, turn “off” iMessage, as that messenger is an iPhone-to-iPhone messenger and if its on your iPhone friends texts won’t make it to Android. Your iPhone will still use SMS messaging to reach your friends if you use the iPhone after this change.
e) Make sure your iPhone is fully synced to the Mac iTunes. Your photos and music should all be backed up on your Mac when this is done. Go ahead and verify that on the Mac and the iPhone.
At this point you should see all your Gmail, have your apps, and have your contacts in the Android phone. If the contacts are not in the Android phone, manually download the contacts as follows on your Mac:
a) Go to apple.com/icloud, login with your Apple ID, and click on contacts
b) In the lower-left corner, click on the wheel, and “select all” the contacts and “export” the vCard into a vCard file (in Downloads).
c) In a browser, go to gmail.com, click on the Mail button and select “Contacts”. You should see a list of your Gmail contacts. Import the vCard file into Gmail/contacts using the “Import contacts” command and it should have manually added your contacts. Delete any duplicates or use the “More / Find & merge duplicates” function.
At this point you have your Gmail, apps and contacts on the new phone. Also verify this.
3. On your Mac, connect your music to Google:
Download Google Music Manager onto the Mac, and run it. Music Manager will upload your iTunes music to the cloud. The standard version is free and handles most iTunes libraries. You will need to sign up for Google Wallet and give your credit card information, but it’s free. Be sure the music is going to your personal Gmail account above. See https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075570
With the above complete, you should have your Gmail, apps, contacts, and music all moved over. Verify this on the Android phone
4. Take the SIM out of the iPhone and insert it into Android. You may need an adapter (from nano-SIM to micro-SIM), but then reboot the Android and you are all set ! For texting either use the Messenger app in earlier releases or the “Hangouts” app in Android 4.4.
Comments and additions welcome ! Eric
PS. Photos on your iPhone
If you have pictures on your iPhone, you will have to first copy them over to the Mac and then sync the iPhone with iTunes. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
It’s probably easiest to backup your iPhone photos to the Mac, but not copy the old photos to the Android phone. New photos you take on the Android phone will automatically be backed up to your photos in the Gmail account (iAuto-Upload is normally enabled) so no action is required. If the old photos are important, send them to Gmail and download into the Android phone or upload them to Google+.
PPS. Some general advice
Be sure to use Chrome, not Safari; its safer and better in so many ways. And it’s free.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Be sure to use two-factor authentication for your Gmail and Google accounts. Makes it very hard for someone to break into your Gmail. Also free.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en
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"I deleted contacts from my iPhone 5S accidentally. Is there any effective methods to recover deleted contacts on iPhone 5/4S? "--from yahoo answer.
According to this matter, here are two solutions:
Part 1:Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone 5/4S without Backup
Currently, this iPhone Data Recovery can directly scan iPhone 5 and 4S to recover lost contacts directly. Here are the steps.
Step 1.Connect your iPhone 5/4S to the software
Firstly, download the proper version of iPhone Data Recovery and install it to your computer, run it.
Step 2.Scan the iPhone
After your iPhone is connected to the software, hit Start Scan to scan the lost contacts on your iPhone.
Step 3.Preview and recover deleted contacts from iPhone 5/4S
After the scanning is completed, you will see all data found on your iPhone are categoried in the left panel.
Part 2: Restore iPhone Contacts by Extractring from iTunes Backup
A:Select recovery mode
First, select Recover From iTunes Backup File mode after you ran this iPhone Contacts Recovery software.
Breview and recover lost contacts from iTunes backup
After the scan, all data found in the backup will be listed in the left panel. Go to the Contacts folder to preview the detailed contacts, and mark the ones you need, hit Recover button at last to save the contacts to your computer.
Lingdong001 said:
"I deleted contacts from my iPhone 5S accidentally. Is there any effective methods to recover deleted contacts on iPhone 5/4S? "--from yahoo answer.
According to this matter, here are two solutions:
Part 1:Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone 5/4S without Backup
Currently, this iPhone Data Recovery can directly scan iPhone 5 and 4S to recover lost contacts directly. Here are the steps.
Step 1.Connect your iPhone 5/4S to the software
Firstly, download the proper version of iPhone Data Recovery and install it to your computer, run it.
Step 2.Scan the iPhone
After your iPhone is connected to the software, hit Start Scan to scan the lost contacts on your iPhone.
Step 3.Preview and recover deleted contacts from iPhone 5/4S
After the scanning is completed, you will see all data found on your iPhone are categoried in the left panel.
Part 2: Restore iPhone Contacts by Extractring from iTunes Backup
A:Select recovery mode
First, select Recover From iTunes Backup File mode after you ran this iPhone Contacts Recovery software.
Breview and recover lost contacts from iTunes backup
After the scan, all data found in the backup will be listed in the left panel. Go to the Contacts folder to preview the detailed contacts, and mark the ones you need, hit Recover button at last to save the contacts to your computer.
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To restore deleted iPhone contacts without itunes backup, you can directly scan and recover contacts from iPhone in a simple way.
The steps of directly scan and recover contacts from iPhone:
a) Connect your iPhone to the computer
b) Enter DFU mode and scan iPhone
c) Preview and recover iPhone contacts
If you still can't get your photos back, you should consider to use a 3 party tool such as FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery to recover deleted contacts from iPhone.
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It would be easy to restore the deleted contacts in iTunes or iCloud backup if you deleted them by mistake. But in this way, you are not allowed to recover the specific one you need but to restore the whole backup file. However, there is another better way to recover those deleted contacts, which is using the iPhone Data Recovery tool from FORecovery for help. It can assist you selectively recover the lost files even without any backup. Detailed introductions can be found in how to recover deleted contacts from iPhone.
Recover Deleted Contacts from iPhone
Find deleted contacts with iCloud if you have ever backed up before:
1. Go to iCloud official site and log in your iCloud account.
2. Click Contacts and see whether the contacts you need are visible here.
Restore iPhone contacts from iCloud:
1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone. Tap on "iCloud" and see whether Contacts is turned on. If it's already on, turn it off.
2. Tap "Keep on My iPhone" when your iPhone asks what would you like to do with the previously synced iCloud contacts on your iPhone.
3. Then turn on Contacts again and tap "Merge". iPhone will take a little while to download your iCloud contacts.
For users who are not used to backing up iPhone with iCloud, to find a special tool to directly recover from iPhone may be a better choice, what I know about this type of tool is imyfone d-back, but I have not tried with this tool yet.
Can you do this in android?
There is no way I've found that works without spending 20$ for a software. Please tell me there's a free and easy way to do this
all i can tell you from my recent experience is this seems impossible. The stupid ios doe not allow you to pull from any other place then android cloud, and the stupid android version can only pull from google cloud
the special softwares seem unable to this properly either, i tried and only got partial contacts and conversations
at the end i got tired of wasting time and money and went ahead with clean slate, as this seems to be done on purpose just to make the users slaves to the chosen system
what you can do on android at least is to export the chats to text, so it does not get totally lost
I think you could backup your chats. Go to Whatsapp>Settings>Chats>Chat Backup. Then when you sign in whatsapp on your iphone, you’ll get the option to restore backup.This might be worth a try. Hope this helps.
This is so stupid from WhatsApp. Apps like Telegram and Messenger have a way to store the chat in their servers and you can add whatever device you like. However, WhatsApp only works through iCloud storage or Google drive!! So its basically separated from Android to IOS or the opposite
You can try WhatsApp Backup to help you transfer whatsapp chat from Android to iOS like below:
Step 1: On your Android phone, go to: Settings > Chats > Chat backup > Backup to Google Drive > Backup.
Step 2: Once the backup is complete, you can back to: Settings > Chat settings > Backup conversations to check last backup. Then, Uninstall WhatsApp application from your Android phone.
Step 3: Download and install WhatsApp on your iPhone, and sign in with the same WhatsApp account on your iPhone.
Step 4: Choose Restore when a pop-up window reads "Message Backup Found".
Step 5: Wait until all backup messages of WhatsApp move from Android to iPhone.
Hope this will be your help.
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You can try WhatsApp Backup to help you transfer whatsapp chat from Android to iOS like below:
Step 1: On your Android phone, go to: Settings > Chats > Chat backup > Backup to Google Drive > Backup.
Step 2: Once the backup is complete, you can back to: Settings > Chat settings > Backup conversations to check last backup. Then, Uninstall WhatsApp application from your Android phone.
Step 3: Download and install WhatsApp on your iPhone, and sign in with the same WhatsApp account on your iPhone.
Step 4: Choose Restore when a pop-up window reads "Message Backup Found".
Step 5: Wait until all backup messages of WhatsApp move from Android to iPhone.
Hope this will be your help.
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This only works between android phones. It does not work between android and IPhone
It is still frustrating as hell. I wish there was a way to just manually replace the folder on IPhone storage
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There is no way I've found that works without spending 20$ for a software. Please tell me there's a free and easy way to do this
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You can directly download WhatsApp on your iOS device and signing with your old Whatsapp number. It's simple.
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You can directly download WhatsApp on your iOS device and signing with your old Whatsapp number. It's simple.
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Unfortunately, you are correct. People posting here are promoting paid software
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So you are saying you can't transfer from IOS to Android but you CAN transfer from Android to IOS? - how (without paid app)?
Why do you comment if you don't have any clue about the topic? It takes a really time to read all tose bs. FYI:
1. WhatsApp Android backs up data ONLY to -> Google Drive (and restores backup ONLY from Google Drive)
2. WhatsApp iOS backs up data ONLY to -> iCloud (and restores backup ONLY from iCloud)
3. There are no other options to do this unnecessary/excessive Backup-Restore in WhatsApp other than points above.
4. There is no connection between iCloud and Google Drive in regards to switching backups..
5. Some crooks in WhatsApp are connected to paid software companies (corruption) and more than 6 years they delay this development, it stuck somewhere.
6. All those paid software have the same business process and similar prices.
7. There is only free way until now (except paid software) - it is a small app "Move to iOS:, which is introduced just recently. But it requires to factory reset iPhone before transferring data.
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Why do you comment if you don't have any clue about the topic? It takes a really time to read all tose bs. FYI dummies:
1. WhatsApp Android backs up data ONLY to -> Google Drive (and restores backup ONLY from Google Drive)
2. WhatsApp iOS backs up data ONLY to -> iCloud (and restores backup ONLY from iCloud)
3. There are no other options to do this Backup-Restore in WhatsApp other than points above.
4. There is no connection between iCloud and Google Drive in regards to switching backups..
5. Some crooks in WhatsApp are connected to paid software companies (corruption) and more than 6 years they delay this development, it stuck somewhere.
6. All those paid software have the same business process and similar prices.
7. There is only free way until now (except paid software) - it is a small app "Move to iOS:, which is introduced just recently. But it requires to factory reset iPhone before transferring data.
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You are wrong.
WhatsApp now officially supports cross-platform chat transfers between iOS and Android
You no longer have to leave WhatsApp chats behind when switching ecosystems. WhatsApp had been testing transferring chat history between Android and iOS...
www.gsmarena.com
How to migrate your WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone | WhatsApp Help Center
faq.whatsapp.com
Dayuser said:
You are wrong.
WhatsApp now officially supports cross-platform chat transfers between iOS and Android
You no longer have to leave WhatsApp chats behind when switching ecosystems. WhatsApp had been testing transferring chat history between Android and iOS...
www.gsmarena.com
How to migrate your WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone | WhatsApp Help Center
faq.whatsapp.com
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Did you read those articles? Just please read and be sure before writing anything. Waiting for your apologizes.
Anar4 said:
Waiting for your apologizes.
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I'm not gonna apologise anything but maybe i misunderstand something here.
Anar4 said:
Did you read those articles? Just please read and be sure before writing anything. Waiting for your apologizes.
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I did, and it seems to suggest that the site does now support importing of messages between the iOS and Android versions of the software. I don't believe that Dayuser needs to apologize (I assume that this is what you meant instead of "apologizes," which doesn't make any sense in this context, and certainly doesn't help your credibility) for pointing out your inaccuracy.
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Why do you comment if you don't have any clue about the topic? It takes a really time to read all tose bs. FYI dummies:
1. WhatsApp Android backs up data ONLY to -> Google Drive (and restores backup ONLY from Google Drive)
2. WhatsApp iOS backs up data ONLY to -> iCloud (and restores backup ONLY from iCloud)
3. There are no other options to do this Backup-Restore in WhatsApp other than points above.
4. There is no connection between iCloud and Google Drive in regards to switching backups..
5. Some crooks in WhatsApp are connected to paid software companies (corruption) and more than 6 years they delay this development, it stuck somewhere.
6. All those paid software have the same business process and similar prices.
7. There is only free way until now (except paid software) - it is a small app "Move to iOS:, which is introduced just recently. But it requires to factory reset iPhone before transferring data.
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Let's try to avoid the name-calling, going forward.
Scenario: My Galaxy S8 died completely about a month ago, I got an iPhone - still getting used to it, spent incredible amount of time tuning and tweaking the settings.
Today I've noticed I still have the backup from my Galaxy S8 in my Google Drive account and it seems I still should be able to import that data to my new phone. There are some valuable information for me, especially contacts (in call history, not synced with Google), text messages, whatsapp messages etc.
I however don't have another Android phone to sync it and then somehow export it, also I probably won't be able to do it on my iPhone - I am logged in to that account but somehow can't find a way to import such data. (All of my Google synced contacts for example got imported automatically, but not the rest).
Is there a way to somehow manually download that backup data from Google Drive to PC and "unpack" it?
Thanks.
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Scenario: My Galaxy S8 died completely about a month ago, I got an iPhone - still getting used to it, spent incredible amount of time tuning and tweaking the settings.
Today I've noticed I still have the backup from my Galaxy S8 in my Google Drive account and it seems I still should be able to import that data to my new phone. There are some valuable information for me, especially contacts (in call history, not synced with Google), text messages, whatsapp messages etc.
I however don't have another Android phone to sync it and then somehow export it, also I probably won't be able to do it on my iPhone - I am logged in to that account but somehow can't find a way to import such data. (All of my Google synced contacts for example got imported automatically, but not the rest).
Is there a way to somehow manually download that backup data from Google Drive to PC and "unpack" it?
Thanks.
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This might help if you can use the import option to import your backup directly from Google drive then transfer it to iOS. Or maybe you can transfer the backup from Google drive then use 7zip or similar software to extract the backup into its separate parts and import/transfer them from your PC to iOS.
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The various tools in that software may help you but you may not be able to do it all in with "one shot", you may have to attack from different angles using more than one option, function or tool provided by this software.
Or, another possible option is to install an android emulator on your PC, install Android in it, then sign into your Google account in the android running in the emulator, restore the backup from Google drive in the Android running in the emulator then see if you can transfer the data from the emulated android to iOS
@TinoArts
take note that whenever you backup Android phone to Google, all your data is safely stored in an encrypted backup file over your Google Drive account.