How to Transfer SMS from iPhone to Android like Samung Galaxy Note 4

iOS and Android are the most two popular mobile operating system in the world for a few years now, and it has a bright future in the near future. Through there are many other mobile operating systems such as Windows, Blackberry, Symbian and etc., but they still have a market share of less than 35%. So it’s without saying that most of the people on the world are using iPhone or Android phones, some people even have several phones. There’s a large number of people change mobile phones every day.

For friends who have just switched from iPhone to Android phones like Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, HTC One M9 or etc, transferring SMS from iPhone to Android phone would be a tricky thing as iOS and Android SMS app are different. So how can you transfer text messages from iPhone to Android smartphones quickly and easily? Let me show you 2 solutions here.

The following two ways are all helpful, please choose either way for migrating your SMS messages:

In order to transfer text messages, you will need to install iTunes and Smart Switch on your computer. You can directly go to Apple store and Samsung official site to download the correct version for your computer.

1. Back up your iPhone data to computer via iTunes. You will need to connect iPhone to PC via USB, then back data now. It will take a short while.

2. Run Smart Switch on computer, connect Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to computer with USB.

3. Go to Restore -> Change data to restore -> Non-Samsung device -> find the iTunes backup copy for your iPhone.

4. Mark messages and other files what you need to transfer from iPhone to Samsung Note4, then click OK button to start transferring data.

Pros: both iTune and Smart Switch are all free.

Cons: Smart Switch can only support transferring data from other phone to Samsung(Android 4.0 or above version), not works for HTC, LG, Sony, Google and etc.

Another way is transferring SMS from iPhone to Android phones via professional phone to phone transfer tools such as this mobile phone transfer.

1. Download and install the software on computer.

2. Connect iPhone and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 on computer via USB cable.

3. Select contacts, SMS, photos and more what you need to migrate

4. Copying selected data from iPhone to Samsung.

Pros: support transferring data such as sms, contacts, calendar, photos, videos, music and more from iOS, iTunes backup, Android devices to any smartphone model powered by Android. One-click sulution to transfer all data at a time.

Cons: Gihosoft mobile transfer is a shareware pricing at $49.95 per license, not free.

Besides, you can also transfer SMS from iPhone to Android manually step by step by managing database files, but it’s a little complicated. You can check the detailed guide from the article.