January 01, 2015
Want an iPhone but without its iOS? No, problem! You’re understandable, because even though Apple has great sales when they launch every device, more than 84 percent from the smartphone users all around the world are using as operating system Android. Many are switching to the mentioned OS from the original iOS so here are the steps you should make to ensure a secure transition from one system to the other, without losing any valuable personal data.
Recover your music and photos
Music files aren’t hard to be transferred because all you need is the Google Play Music Manager which helps you tacking your music from iTunes. Once the program installed, open it and choose what do you want to select from iTunes and after push the upload button, after which you can access the songs with Google Play Music. Like in this case, the photo transfer is pretty much the same. Download the Google+ Photos application on your iPhone, sign in with a Google account, and select "Auto Backup" from the settings in the iPhone application. At the end, the photos are synced to the cloud, after which they can be seen using Google+ Photos on any Android smartphone.
How to transfer your contacts in seven steps
Last, but not least, let us speak about your contacts transfer because, of course, they are the most important for every user. At least this is what we think! You will have to sync contacts using iCloud so this is why we present to you all steps:
1. Ensure that contacts are synced to iCloud from the iPhone. To do this enter "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" from the "Settings" menu, then go to "Accounts"
2. Select the iCloud option and ensure that the toggle switch for Contacts is switched on
3. Login to your iCloud account from a computer, click on "Contacts" then click on "Select All" from the little wheel in the lower left-hand corner
4. Click on that wheel again and select "Export vCard”
5. You will then need to login to your Gmail account and select "Contacts" from the "Gmail" dropdown menu in the top left corner
6. The select the "More" button and choose "Import"
7. Find the saved vCard that was downloaded from iCloud, and Gmail should display all your contacts, which are automatically synced to your Android