With practically all our life stored in our mobilesNot only can accidents make us lose all our data, but the very fact of changing phones often leads to some significant losses. However, apps like Dr.fone is a tool that allows you to manage your Android and iOS files; One of the most useful functions of the application is the transfer of data between two devices.
Even if it is devices with different operating systems, that is, if you want to transfer to a new iPhone 12 that they have given you this Christmas, you can recover all the contacts, files and settings to be able to copy them to your new device. All this with the enormous ease of working from a desktop application that, from a single interface, will allow us to back up and save the data on our devices and then transfer them to another in a really simple way.
In this way we can recover or transfer our messages, files, videos, music, contact lists, call records, and even the data and chats of our WhatsApp account. And it is an application that is not only effective, but very simple to use, requiring only three steps: connect, order and transfer.
- The first thing to do will be to download and install the application Dr.fone on our PC, and run the program.
- Next, we will select the function «Restore Social App» on the home screen, and select the option to «Transfer WhatsApp messages».
- Using both USB and Lightning cables to connect Android and iPhone devices to our computer, which will be recognized automatically, and once found, we can change the locations and order of the two smartphones by clicking the button “Flip”.
- Finally, we will click on the button “To transfer” to move all WhatsApp messages and attachments from one phone to the other.
Thus, this method can also be used in reverse, recovering our data and messages to transfer WhatsApp from Android to iPhone, following the same steps and changing the order of the devices.
As the only detail to take into account, it is worth mentioning the fact that, if we want any existing chat on the destination phone prior to the transfer, it is advisable to make a backup copy of themas all chats on the target phone will be overwritten once the dr.fone handover is done.
Dr.fone also handles your backups
In addition to transferring data between one phone and another, dr.fone has other applications, such as saving a WhatsApp backup of on your PC. To do this, we must follow some steps that are practically identical to that of cloning the phone, with a process as simple as connecting our phone to the computer, and follow the steps after selecting the option to “Create backup”.
In this way, we will also have a backup for less opportune cases such as if our phone is stolen, lost, or simply breaks down, with the ease of just having to connect the new phone to the PC to restore all our data in a matter of minutes.
