By Nathan E. Malpass, Last updated: August 27, 2019
Imagine that: you have been used iPhone for years, so you maybe know how to transfer data, like contacts, photos, music, video, application and so on, from iPhone to iPhone (Here we will take transferring photos for example). Most of you may use tools like iCloud or iTunes to do this job. But what will you do to transfer your data if you have got your new android phone, which is running a different operating system that you are quite not so familiar with? At this time, you may be anxious to find some solutions to figure it out.
Some of your friends may tell you to use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to transfer photos from iPhone to android, however, unlike transfer data between iPhone, or between android phone, transferring data from iPhone to Android is a more complicated task. Thus, if you transfer them via the 2 tools mentioned above, you may need to spend a lot of time.
In order to deal with this problem, today I’d like to introduce 2 methods for you to transfer photos from iPhone to android. One is to use an excellent third party tool—FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit, the other is a drag and drop method. But before I show you how to transfer photos between iPhone and Android, in case you don’t the third-party tool, let me give a brief introduction about it.
Method 1: How to Transfer iPhone Photos to Android With Phone TransferMethod 2: How To Transfer Photos From iPhone To Android Using Drag-And-DropIn Conclusion
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Method 1: How to Transfer iPhone Photos to Android With Phone Transfer
FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit, a powerful transfer software, can easily manage and transfer different types of data among iPhone, Android, and PC, for instance, photos, music, contacts, video and so on. You are able to use FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit to easily transfer all photos in camera roll between iPhone, Android, and computer. what’s more, you can use it to convert HEIC images to JPEG or PNG images.
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As for devices supported, it supports all iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and also supports iOS 12. Android phones which running android 2.3-9.0 are also supported, including Samsung, Google, Huawei, LG, HTC, and Xiaomi. Aside from these, it also supports the operating system like Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10( 32bit or 64 bit).
FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit is designed for data transferring among phones and computer, with which you don’t need to connect the network but just install the software on your computer and then link your iPhone and android phone with the PC. It does not cost you much time.
So after you have an idea about what FoneDog toolkit is, let’s have a close look at how to use FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit to transfer your important photos. Just follow the easy but effective guide below.
Step 1: Open your PC browser and head to FoneDog official websites, then install Phone Transfer software.
Step 2: After you installed it, launch the program on your PC. Connecting your iPhone and Android to PC with 2 USB cables. Notice that android phone is the target phone, don’t make a mistake. Then trust the phone on your computer.
Step 3: Choose the connected iDevice, then you will see all the data of your iPhone, which are organized by category shown on the left side.
Step 4: Click the Photos button, and choose the photos you want to move. Patient wait for minutes, how long the transferring process will take depending on the number of photos you are transferring. After a message“ export XX successfully shown on the screen, click the target android phone on Phone Transfer to preview the result. At this time you can also manage the photos on the android device.
Method 2: How To Transfer Photos From iPhone To Android Using Drag-And-Drop
Aside from the mentioned method, another method to move photos from iPhone to Android is to use drag and drop photos. You can drag and drop photos from iDevice’s default photo directory to android’s photo folder. But if you want to use this method, you must have a Windows PC which has installed iPhone and android device before.
If you have prepared those devices, a step by step guild is shown as followed.
Step 1: Using 2 USB cables to connect your iPhone and android device to your PC. Then enables the computer to scan your phone’s photo by pressing “ My Computer”, after that you can see the iPhone and android phone are over there.
Step 2: Open the android’s storage on a new window, then do the same with iPhone’ storage as well.
Step 3: Head to the iPhone DCIM folder, then seek out the image folders within the DCIM folder. Do the same with android’s folder as well. After that, choose the photos you want to move to android by dragging and dropping to then android device’s image folder.
Here if you want to use this method, you must take care of these points when you are moving photos from iPhone to Android. That is, when you moving photos, the process will get stuck from time to time or can hang weirdly, especially when you moving some large size files, this problem is serious. In order to solve this problem, you should not directly drag and drop, instead, you should first transfer these files to your computer and then move them to your android phone. But this may more complicated and inefficient.
In Conclusion
As you can see, there are 2 methods for you to transfer your photos between iPhone and android, both are just a few steps needed before you can see all your iDevice photos on android. But using drag and drop method may cause some problem, so that is why I recommend you to use FoneDog program to transfer photos from iPhone to android for it is more effective but easy way.
Actually, FoneDog Phone Transfer toolkit is an all-in-one data transfer and manage tool, which means that you can not only directly preview all photos(including other data, like music, video) on your phone, then select the items you want and move them to another phone, but also use it to manage and even backup data on your phone with ease. So why not give it a try right now?
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