If you've decided to switch your smartphone
from one running Android to an iPhone, you're making a great choice. But if
you've been using Android long enough to accumulate a decent number of apps and
a good-sized music library, to say nothing of videos, contacts, and calendars,
you may have questions about what you can bring to your new phone. Luckily, the
answer is that you can bring most of your content and data, with a few notable
exceptions. Once you know which model you're going to buy, read on to learn
what you'll be able to move to your new iPhone.
One of the most important things you'll need
on your computer for using your iPhone is iTunes. It's possible that you've
been using iTunes to manage your music, podcasts, and movies, but many Android
users use other software. When you switch to iPhone, iTunes isn't optional:
iTunes is how you control what content—including contacts, calendars, and
apps—gets synced to your phone. ITunes is free from Apple, so you'll just need
to download and install it.
Depending on how you've used your Android
phone, you may have downloaded a lot of content, especially music, directly to
it. It's crucial that, before you switch to iPhone, you sync all of that music
to your computer. If the music is on your computer as well as your phone, the
likelihood that you can move it to your new iPhone is much higher (more on that
in a minute). But if your music only lives on your Android phone, there's a
good chance you'll lose all those downloads when you switch. If you get your
music through a streaming service like Spotify, you won't have to worry about
losing music (though any songs you saved for offline listening will have to be
re-downloaded on your iPhone). Just download the iPhone apps for those services
and sign into your account. In fact, you want to make sure that everything on
your Android phone is synced to your computer before you switch to iPhone—not
just your music, but also calendars, address books, videos, etc. If you use a
web-based calendar or address book, this probably isn't necessary, but better
safe than sorry. Sync as much data to your computer as you can before starting
your switch.
Probably the most important part of moving
from one smartphone platform to the other is to make sure that all of your data
comes with you when you change. Here's some guidance on what data can and can't
transfer, and how to do it. The other thing that's most important to many
people is their photos. You definitely don't want to lose hundreds or thousands
of priceless memories just because you changed phones. This, again, is where
syncing the content of your phone to your computer is key. If you sync the
photos from your Android phone to a photo management program on your computer,
you should be able to move it to your new iPhone. If you've got a Mac, just
sync the photos to iPhoto (or copy them to your computer and then import them
to iPhoto) and you'll be fine. On Windows, there are a number of
photo-management programs available. It's best to look for one that advertises
itself as being able to sync with the iPhone or iTunes.
Here's a big difference between the two types
of phones: Android apps do not work on the iPhone (and vice versa). So, any
apps you've got on Android can't come with you when you move to iPhone.
Luckily, many Android apps have iPhone versions or replacements that do
basically the same thing. Even if there are iPhone versions of the apps you
need, your app data may not come with them. If the app requires that you create
an account or otherwise stores your data in the cloud, you should be able to
download the data to your iPhone, but some apps store your data on your phone.
You may lose that data, so check with the developer of the app.
Now that you know the ins and outs of
transferring your data from your Android phone to your new iPhone, it's time to
get started setting up and using your iPhone. The switchover process is
relatively painless once you decide to switch to an iPhone. If you have enough
budget, then you can have whatever model you like and basically the newest
model will be advanced, but if you have a low budget, then you can get a refurbished unlocked iPhone of an older model. And a
lot people will still want to keep the numerable and may concern about the
compatibility of the network, then you can just go to the carriers and they
will handle the problem for you or you can just buy an unlocked refurbished
iPhone.
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