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Monday 3 August 2015

iPhone to Android - Contacts and Calendar

iPhone to Android - Contacts and Calendar
Jump from one mobile platform to another is not easy. And it's not that have to learn a new interface, and look for a replacement favorite programs. Often, we stop by the transition to the new platform the difficulty of transferring personal information. Photos, contacts, calendar, and applications - all this will have to carry alone. But if you're determined to that are ripe for migration to Android, it is useful to you this series of articles. In the first part we will talk about how to transfer your contacts and calendar events to your new device.

Contacts

With the transfer of contacts, you will not have to mess around for a long time, because the developers have provided a convenient opportunity to export the entire address book. First you need to go to the website iCloud.com and go with your Apple ID. Now go to the tab "Contacts" and click on the gear in the lower-left corner.

Here we press "Select All" and then "Export vCard ...». All contacts (unlimited number) is loaded into a single file format «vcard». Now you need to import those contacts into Google. To do this, go to the address gmail.com and enter your login. If you have not created an email account Google, you it's time to do it.

Click on the inscription «Gmail» in the upper left corner and in the dropdown menu, select "Contacts". Now located on the top toolbar, click "Advanced" and hit "Import". All that's left to do - is to specify the path to the file Gmail «vcard», which you saved from iCloud.

Calendar

iCloud allows you to share your calendars with other users. That we will use this function when you transfer calendar events on Android. In short, this method works as follows: we have been exporting your calendar from iCloud in a separate file, and then import the file into Google Calendar.
If you have multiple calendars iCloud, will have to perform the operation described below, separately for each calendar.

To transfer the calendars we need: devices on iOS and Android, iCloud account with calendar, computer, and Google account and internet connection, as without it.

Open iCloud.com. Then click on the icon "Calendar".
As you remember, we have to use the calendar "Share." To do this, click on the icon next to the name of the calendar. We have a window with two ways of access: personal calendar and open calendar. We need the last. There will be shown a link - highlight and copy it.
Now open a new tab in your browser and paste the link into the address bar. Do not rush to press «Enter». First you need to go to the top of the links and to replace the word «webcal» on «http». After replacing the press «Enter» and wait until the download files from the calendars. It only takes a couple of seconds.

Congratulations! Your calendars are already exported to iCloud, and now we need to import them into Google Calendar. Open Google Calendar and enter it under your account, if you have not done so. In the left pane, locate the tab "Other Calendars" and click on the arrow to the right of it. Here we are concerned with the button "Import Calendar."
We're almost done. It remains only to specify the file we downloaded earlier and click "Import." Depending on the number of events, the calendar will be imported from several seconds to a minute. And then all of your events will appear in the tab "Other Calendars" in Google Calendar.
That's all. We ended with the transfer of contacts and calendars. In the next article we will talk about how to transfer your music, pictures and video.
And you had to move from iOS to Android? Share your experiences and tips with everyone in the comments!