Sunday, September 28, 2014

Learn to take the contents from your old to your new Android … – Washington Post

The iPhone 6 already available in Spain and is likely to be Android users who have decided to switch to the latest from Apple. In such cases, we review some interesting tools and features to help users to take your data and the contents of their computers Android to their new iOS terminals.

It was the very Apple have been encouraged to report on the migration process in an attempt to show users the change of operating system means not losing content. The company is adding and reasons in its favor in its competition with Android, the operating system of most of its rivals.

Apple stressed that the data migration to Android iOS may include content ranging from mail to contacts, calendar and even music. In the case of mail, users have it easy. iOS is compatible with Gmail and with most email providers. Therefore, users only have to enter and set up your account to have all their emails on iOS, the same way that Android.

For contacts and calendar, Apple mentioned the possibility of transferring information through applications. The suggestion of the company is Copy My Data , available for both iOS and Android. This is a quick and easy way to get the contacts and calendar information to pass from one system to another.

In a simple way, can also be transferring pictures and videos stored on an Android computer a new iOS device. Copy My Data is an option and PhotoSync is another alternative. As a prominent aspect photosync Android is free, but it costs 2.99 euros in iOS. Those unwilling to pay and not to rely on an application, may also transfer your pictures and videos between Android and iOS through a computer with iTunes .

Music , books and documents

The music on Android devices has not lost if you have to migrate to a new iPhone 6 or other iOS device. In this case, iTunes is again the key tool. Users simply connect the Android device source and move your music to iTunes. Then the new iOS device is connected and synchronized music library iTunes for songs you have.

As for the books and PDF files, the procedure is very similar. Alternatively, users can also take advantage of cloud services in this case. PDF books and are stored in services like Dropbox and then access them from the web terminal with the iOS version of the service or application. It is another alternative for those not wanting to make the transfer process with the computer as an intermediary.

text documents, spreadsheets and presentations , the proposed Apple passes to use Pages, Numbers, Keynote combined with iCloud. The first would be to download these applications in the new iOS devices. Then you have to send the documents stored in the old Android device to a computer to upload them to iCloud. Once in iCloud, users can access those documents in the applications mentioned above.

Finally, the only thing left would be to transfer installed applications. In this case there is a way to make it past enter the Apple App Store and search one by one the applications installed in the previous device. Catalogs Android and iOS are quite similar, so that in most cases users will have no trouble finding the same applications. Nevertheless, it may happen that some content was exclusive to Android. If so, you can search for alternatives that can fill the role played by the Android application.

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