Transferring data from Android to iPhone

[lsavidge]

I went into a Vodafone shop the other day specifically to make use of the Redbox to get my stuff moved from my old Android phone to the iPhone. The only stuff that came across was my contacts. I now have 16,000 text messages on my old phone and none on this infernal iPhone. Why can't the text messages be brought across? Why have I lost all my contact photos? I can deal with my photos not being transferred because they're on the useful sd-card in the old phone so I can simply copy them off. How do I get my text messages copied over?

One thing I found incredibly useful on Android was the ability to create groups and being able to send a text message to a group. I don't care about replies coming back to the group. Each week I send out sport fixtures with dates and times for that week to find out if people can play and to have to manually add each name to that list each week is tedious and obviously error-prone as I may miss someone off. Does this stupid phone not have simple groups?

[jeffkinn]

There are pieces of software out there that will import texts from an Android phone. I just googled "import text messages from android to an iphone" and got lots of suggestions.

But it is specialist software and probably not something that the red box can cater for.

Your contacts should be synced to the cloud anyway in your gmail account. If you set that up on your iPhone it should pull down your contacts.

[lsavidge]

Moving Android to Android was easy. Backup contacts and text messages to the SD card and then simply reimport them when you put it in the new one. Job done. I just can't get my head around why phone manufacturers... well, Apple, deliberately make everything so difficult. What stuns me is that despite them making things difficult, locked down and closed, they are still a very popular phone.

I found plenty of suggestions but many require apps I'm not planning on using because I am not paying for something that should be available by default on the phone. Many suggest synching the data somewhere into the cloud. Call me paranoid but I do not like cloud based systems. My data is mine and I want it where I can see it.

[jeffkinn]

Apple is a law unto itself. They make it difficult to do the type of thing you want to do and they make it difficult to leave. iMessage issues are often discussed on the forum.

[AllisonWhite]

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[guoleo]

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