How to transfer data and photos from Windows Phone on the iPhone?
If you decide to replace your Lumia or any other Windows Phone smartphone as an iPhone operating system, then you will have to face data transfer from one device to another. In this article we will tell you how to make it most optimally and painless.
How to transfer contacts with Windows Phone on the iPhone
Unfortunately, Windows Phone's time came to an end. The latest fans of an alternative operating system change their smartphones with a tiled interface to the devices of other firms. They are not to blame for that. Just Microsoft itself refused his brainchild and completed the support of its operating system.
And if as an alternative to Windows Phone, the user chose an iPhone, then before using a new smartphone, he must transfer its contacts and photos to it. Due to the fact that the operating systems differ, do it is not as simple as it seems at first glance.
The personal data of the smartphone owner on Windows Phone is synchronized with its account in Microsoft Live. With this service, you can save contacts, mail, various notes, etc. The owners of the iPhone such a service is an Apple ID.
In order to transfer data between the smartphone on Windows Phone with the Apple Smartphone, you must first transfer them to Microsoft Live. With the standard settings, the smartphone on Windows itself synchronizes the data. After that you can download only those you need using a CSV file.
Using the iPhone go to "Settings", "Mail, addresses, calendars", "Add an account", choose "Outlook.com" and put a tick in the column "Contacts". We enter your data from the post office and are successfully tied to the Microsoft service.
Now the data must "move" to your new smartphone. Since he has not yet has its own contacts, all the data in it will be in the only option. But if you have already managed to score several numbers of phones, then with such a transfer, they are duplicated. Therefore, contacting contacts must be implemented in advance.
If account Outlook.com. You do not plan to use, you can delete it. And so that contacts are not cleared with such removal, you need to create a backup between these actions, and then restore it after the account dislocation Outlook.com..
Now contacts need to be synchronized with iCloud. All your data will always be with you. Even if you want to update your iPhone.
Alternative way: There is another option to transfer contacts with Windows Phone on the iPhone:
- Go to people.live.com. and export contacts in CSV format
- Using third-party application, we convert CSV to VCF (VCARD)
- Icloud.com go into contacts and select "VCARD exports"
- We find the VCard file with contacts on the computer and export it
How to transfer photos and other documents with Windows Phone on the iPhone
You can also transfer photos in two navigation. For example, using a computer. First you connect your smartphone to it on Windows Phone and find in it a folder with photos. In order to transfer it to a computer, you do not need to additionally install any programs. The computer will see a new "drive" itself, and you will be enough to transfer the necessary data from it to the PC hard drive.
With this method, you can save all the necessary data: photos, videos, music files, e-books, documents, etc.
Connect to computer
After the files are preserved on a desktop computer, you can transfer them to the iPhone. To do this, connect your smartphone from Apple and open the program iTunes.. Here, without special software, you can not do. In addition to the main client, it is also possible to use third-party applications to synchronize files between the computer and the iPhone:
- iFunBox is the most popular iTunes alternative client for Windows and Mac
- itools - has a smaller functionality than ifunbox, but with the transfer of music and photos to cope
- Diskaid - File File Manager, which "sees" devices on iOS
Using one of these programs, you can transfer the photos and other data to the iPhone memory that you saved on a computer from the device on Windows Phone.
Alternative way: Instead of a home computer as a "gasket", a popular cloud storage can be used for such transfer. Since the ONEDRIVE service is well developed in Microsoft, almost every owner of devices on Windows Phone synchronizes multimedia files with it from its smartphone. If you have not done this yet, now it's time.
Onedrive
After that, set the ONEDRIVE application on your iPhone and save the photos and other files to your smartphone and other files that you need daily. Or do not do it. Cloud technologies allow you to use the data stored in such a remote repository at any convenient time.