Changing phone is e'er bittersweet. On the one mitt y'all have a shiny new telephone, simply on the other you accept to go through the procedure of moving all of your data over, which is never quite equally easy every bit nosotros'd similar it to be.

While moving contacts and photos can be done through Google and Gmail easily, moving text messages betwixt phones can be slightly trickier. Nosotros're here to show y'all how.

How to move letters from iPhone to iPhone:

  •  Turn on the iCloud Backup feature on your old device, which is plant by navigating into Settings, your account, then iCloud, and then Backup.

Text Message Moving

  • Ensure that your messages are being saved in the iCloud, by going to Settings, then into Messages. Turn on the option of "Letters on iCloud" by borer the slider so it shows as green.
  • Tap the "Sync now" button to upload your messages to the iCloud right away.
  • Plough on your new iPhone.
  • During the setup of your new iPhone, you will exist presented with an option to restore it from iCloud. Sign in using your ID, and select the most recent backup.

How to move letters from Android to Android, using SMS Fill-in & Restore:

  • Download SMS Backup & Restore onto both your new and old phone and ensure they're both connected to the aforementioned Wifi network.
  • Open up upward the app on both phones, and hitting "Transfer". A box will appear explaining how the procedure works. Select the desired option on each telephone, betwixt "Transport from this phone" and "Receive on this telephone".
  • The phones will and then search for each other over the network. Once the sending phone finds the receiving phone, it will appear in the available listing. Select information technology.
  • The receiving phone will go an invite from the sending phone. Accept it. You lot'll be presented with two options, choose "Transfer text messages and telephone call logs from the electric current state of your phone" for the most up to date records of your letters.

Text Messages to a new phone

  • The sending phone will then transfer the data over to the receiving phone, which will take a few moments. When this is complete, a prompt will ask you lot if you'd similar to Take and Restore. Tap this to confirm.
  • Once you've confirmed the choice, the restore will kickoff. When information technology ends, you will be presented with a pop upward informing you that you'll have to set SMS Backup & Restore as the default SMS app until the transfer is finished. Hit "Ok" and continue.
  • Y'all will and then be presented with a prompt for changing SMS backup & Restore to be your SMS app, hit "Aye".
  • The process will now offset, and this will take some time depending on how much data yous have to move. Get out it for a while, and let it run through.
  • Once this is complete, you lot volition exist presented with some other popular-upwards with details of the transfer. Dismiss this, and open upwards your messaging app – your call log and messages from your previous phone volition all be at that place.

How to move messages from an iPhone to Android:

  • Start past backing up your iPhone. Connect your iPhone to your computer, and navigate to File > Devices > Backup.
  • Once the Backup is consummate, you'll have to locate the file on your computer that contains the text messages.
  • If you're on a PC, you'll find this inside /users/(username)/AppData/Roaming/Apple Estimator/Mobile Sync. If you're in a Mac, it will be inside /(user)/Library/Awarding Back up/Mobile Sync/Backup.

  • Select the folder with the well-nigh recent timestamp, open it up and look for a file with the post-obit proper name '3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28'.
  • Once you've constitute the file, move information technology over to your Android device.
  • Download and install an app called iSMS2droid on your phone, open information technology up and striking "Select iPhone SMS Database" and find the file that you just moved onto your device. This will convert the data file into something that Android can interact with.
  • Install SMS Backup & Restore on your Android phone. Open it up, choose "Restore" and locate the file that was created past iSMS2droid.
  • Cull "Restore All Messages". In one case the update completes, you will at present take all of your iPhone letters present on your Android device.

How to move messages from Android to iPhone:

  • After your new iPhone starts upwards, you will be prompted to choose a Wifi network. You'll so be provided with a few options to drift your data. Select "Motion Data from Android".
  • On your quondam Android phone, install the "Move to iOS" app that can be constitute in the Play Store and open up it upwardly.

  • Proceed on from "Motility Information from Android", and you volition eventually meet an choice to "Find your Code". Tap next.
  • When proceeding further on your Android device, y'all will need to confirm the transfer by entering the code that is displayed on your iPhone, and then wait for the transfer window to pop up on your Android device.When the transfer window arrives, select 'Messages' and anything else yous would like to transfer over to your new telephone, and then hitting next to commencement the transfer

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