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How To Do iPhone to Android Transfer and Android to iPhone Transfer
Jun 30, 2025
In this video, I show how you can easily transfer files and data from Android to iPhone, as well as Android to iPhone transfer. Share photos, videos, documents, and more from iPhone to Android and vice versa. This works for all kinds of Android phones - Samsung, Google Pixel, Motorola, OnePlus, and others. #sharefiles #transferfiles #transferdata #iphonetoandroid
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[Music]
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iOS and Android are two separate
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platforms that have had compatibility
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issues since forever.
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Sending files from an iPhone to an
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Android phone or from an Android phone
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to an iPhone has always been problematic
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because of this compatibility issues.
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For example, you can't send a file from
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the iPhone or iOS via Bluetooth, which
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would have made it easy. If you could
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send via Bluetooth, you'd be able to
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send a file across to Android without
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any issues. Airrop works on the iPhone.
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It is not available here on Android. But
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there is a solution. There are third
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party apps that allow you to send files
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over a local network across these two
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devices. So, I'm going to show you how
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to go about this. What you need to do
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first, go to the Apple App Store. You
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type local send, one word, no space in
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between, local send. Search for it, and
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then when the results are out, here is
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what the icon looks like. local send,
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right? Install it and then you tap open.
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Of course, you have to do something
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similar in the Android phone that you
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want to send to. You need to install the
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local send app. And once you have done
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that, here's what it looks like on
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Android. And when I open it on iOS, this
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is what it looks like.
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Let's say you want to send a file from
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the iPhone to the Android device. You go
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to media.
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Let's pick this guy.
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And
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you tap that.
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I have opted not to give the app full
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access to my photos. So, I'm continuing
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with limited access. Of course, you can
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give it full access if you want. This is
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the file we're sending.
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confirm down here.
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And then so it's already found this
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phone. This phone is named Fantastic
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Strawberry in the app. Here it is. So I
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tap that.
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Waiting for response. And here is the
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file coming in on the Android phone.
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That's it. Open file.
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with the gallery, the file that we just
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sent over from the iPhone.
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Let's say we want to send something from
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the Android phone to the iPhone. Local
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send and I come to send.
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It has already identified the iPhone as
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solid mango. I go to media limited
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access.
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Let's take this file. Done.
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Here it is. Select. Confirm.
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And solid mango.
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It's sent. Done. On the iPhone. You see
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it's it's coming. So, we're going to
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our photos app and we're going to look
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for Yep, that's it.
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That's the file I just sent over from my
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Android phone to this. How does it work?
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The two devices need to be on the same
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Wi-Fi network. They need to be connected
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to the same Wi-Fi network. As long as
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they're connected to the same Wi-Fi
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network, they will recognize one another
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during the sending process. And all you
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have to do is tap like I showed you. You
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click tap it send, it goes across.
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Transferring files between your iPhone
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and your Android phone has become
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extremely easy thanks to third party
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apps. It would be nice though for Apple
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and Google to collaborate in a way to
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make this possible without us needing to
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install a third party app. Of course,
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Local Send is not the only such app.
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There are several others that exist and
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all you have to do is search in your app
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store. we say send files
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from
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iPhone to Android or iOS to Android and
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then you you scroll through the results.
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But the pattern is that whatever app you
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install on one device has to be
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installed on the other for for it to
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work. Let me know if you have any
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questions. I wish you all the best. Take
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care.