We all love changing phones, although not so much the fact of setting it up from scratch and transferring all the photos from our old phone to the new one so as not to lose anything. But this is because you did not know the tricks that we explain below to speed up the process and take less than 5 minutes to have your entire gallery safe.
It is a fact that no one wants to lose the photos they have with their friends, partner or family, as well as the trips they take. However, many end up giving up on this option because it would take a long time to transfer the photos from one mobile phone to another, making a serious mistake that will prevent you from having access to all of them whenever and wherever you want. Today you will learn how to save all your images locked so that you can consult them at all times with complete ease.
Transfer mobile photos with Google Photos
There is a trick to transfer all your photos and videos from your old phone to the new one without having to worry about doing it again in the future, since the settings will be maintained automatically. The method consists of use Google Photos as your main gallery and store everything there.
This way, you can access the app from your new phone and have the entire content at hand without having to download anything. The only thing you have to do is activate backup from Google Photos and thus transfer your photos from one mobile phone to another whenever you want by simply downloading the copy to the other device.
A very positive aspect of using Google Photos is that you do not have to look for an alternative in the case of have an iPhone. The application is available at Apple App Store and this is not the case with other Google services. The drawback of this option for transferring photos between mobile phones is that the account storage is limited to 15 GB, which may be insufficient in the case of taking photos with the best resolution in most cases and also saving the photos that are sent to you via WhatsApp. You can always choose to pay for the monthly Google One subscription to increase storage or opt for the following.
Transfer your photos from iPhone to Android
He manual process It may take a little longer, but it’s still an easy way so as not to lose your photos. In this case, just create and compress a folder with all the images, something very simple for both Android and iPhone. If you have the latter, you must follow the following instructions:
- Download Zip & RAR File Extractor app from App Store.
- Access the app and select all the photos you want to transfer to your other phone.
- Select the ‘Create archive archive’ option (you can enter a password if you want).
- Connect your iPhone to the computer and the other mobile phone, whether Android or another iPhone.
- Transfer the file from one device to another.
Or from Android to iPhone
Transferring your photos from one Android to another and even to an iPhone is a procedure quite similar to the previous one. The only difference in this regard is the application that is used for it. For this occasion we are going to use the RAR app that you can install from the Google Play Store completely free of charge. The program interface is the only thing that changes, but the steps are practically identical:
- Open RAR on your phone.
- Mark all the photos you want to transfer to the other device.
- Click on the top button with the ‘+’ symbol.
- Select the file type RAR and choose a destination location for the file.
- Once the process is complete, connect both phones to the computer and transfer the folder from one to the other.