How to Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone with/without iCloud/iTunes

Honestly, transferring data from one iPhone to another can happen often in the daily life. When you plan to share the lovely photos taken by your iPhone and saved in your Camera Roll, to your iPhone friends, you need to work on it; Or when your old iPhone is shy on its storage, and you get another iPhone with much bigger storage, but the old one contains lots of your important and precious text messages, you need to work on it; Or when the Apple release the newest generation of iPhone, fascinating with so many funny features, and you cannot wait to upgrade your old iPhone to it, you need to work on it; ETC. See, there are so many situations where iPhone users need to transfer data from iPhone to iPhone. But the real question is how can you do it.

Often, or calling it always, iPhone users tend to ask for help from Apple official tools, like iTunes and iCloud. Truly, they can fix the issue of transferring data from one iPhone to another. But here we also need to tell you that neither of the two ways is perfect, with some annoying problems. Guess some of you, who usually use iTunes and iClooud, or are pretty familiar with them, must realize what it means. To begin with, iTunes and iCloud can’t back up all data, not to mention transferring all data from iPhone to iPhone. Besides, you can’t just selectively transfer messages, photos, files from iPhone to another via iTunes/iCloud. Moreover, it is quite hard to use iTunes and iCloud to transfer data from iPhone to iPhone.

However, even though iTunes and iCloud have so many shortcomings, mentioned above, we will still show your the detailed steps about how to use iTunes/iCloud transferring data from iPhone to iPhone, for the newbies; Besides, a perfect method is also going to list with detailed steps, to help you transfer data from iPhone to iPhone easily and smoothly.

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Part 1. How to Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone with AnyTrans for iOS

Best way always goes first. To avoid iTunes/iCloud shortcomings, we would like to firstly show you an iTunes/iCloud alternative – AnyTrans for iOS, to help you with transferring data from one iPhone to another, since it is fitted with the following top features, like:

• Allow you to transfer 24+ types of iOS data from iPhone to iPhone, including Photos, Videos, Music, Contacts, Messages, Voice Memos, Voice Mails, Notes, even some data that are not supported to be backed up via iTunes/iCloud, such as non-purchased music, ringtones, movies, etc.
• Support transferring data from iPhone to iPhone directly without iTunes or iCloud. You don’t need to back up one iPhone, and then restore the whole backup to another iPhone via iTunes/iCloud, saving you from many troubles.
• Enable you to transfer everything from one iPhone to another in one click or selectively transfer data from one iPhone to another. A preview of all the iPhone files and data is allowed on the computer.
• Super fast transferring speed. For example, it only takes you 5 minutes to transfer over 3000 photos and songs.
• Guarantees you 100% Safe & Security. During this process, all the contents on both of your iPhones will be kept safe. You won’t lose any data or file.
• If you have already made an iTunes or iCloud backup, it can help you extract data from the previous backups without performing full restoration on your iPhone. Moreover, no existing data on your iPhone will be erased.

What’s more, AnyTrans for iOS supports both of Windows and Mac operating system. And it is also compatible with all the models of iPhone, like iPhone 6/6s/7/8/X and the latest iPhone XS (Max) and iPhone XR. Follow steps below to transfer everything from one iPhone to another wholly or selectively.

Now Free Download AnyTrans for iOS and install it on your computer (Mac or PC), follow the steps below, you can easily transfer data from one iPhone to another.

Method 1. Transfer All Data from iPhone to iPhone without iCloud/iTunes

Step 1Open AnyTrans for iOS and connect with your iPhones > Select your old iPhone. And Clone and Merge allows you to transfer data between two iPhones quickly. (But notice that Clone feature will wipe the selected files on your target iPhone).

Step 2Confirm the transferring direction and click the “>” button, select all types of data, AnyTrans for iOS will transfer the data from iPhone to iPhone.

Method 2. Transfer Selected Data from iPhone to iPhone without iCloud/iTunes

Click the  button to choose a specific category like Photos, Notes, Messages, etc. Here we will take transferring photos from Camera Roll for example.

Step 1. Connect your two iPhones to the computer. Click on Device Manager.

Step 2. Select Photos >choose one album.

Step 3. Select the photos you want to transfer and then click on To Device button.

Part 2: Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone Using iTunes Backup (Unstable & Data Loss Risk)

Transfer data from one iPhone to another isn’t a mystery with iTunes. That’s because before iCloud featured on iOS 5, iTunes was the only way to transfer data from iPhone to iPhone. But the story changed as many products and services offer more straightforward and convenient iPhone to iPhone data transfer solutions, which may turn this tedious job into a simple process. But if you still prefer this iTunes way to transfer everything from one iPhone to another, you can make it with the following steps:

1. Backup your old iPhone with iTunes firstly, if you haven’t: Open iTunes > Connect your old iPhone to the computer > Click Device tab > Click Summary > Click This Computer in Backups column > Click Back Up Now:

2. Connect your another iPhone to the computer that you have backed up your old device in Step 1.

3. Open iTunes on your computer and select the device tab.

4. Select Restore Backup. Then choose a backup. Please make sure it’s the correct one by looking at the date and size of each, if you have more than one iTunes backup.

5. If the backup file was encrypted, enter your password and unlock it when asked.

7. Wait for the restore process to finish, then complete the rest of the setup steps on your iOS device. Dozens of minutes probably will be needed. If possible, keep your device connected to an available Wi-Fi and in charge after setup, which allows photos, music, apps, and other contents stored in iCloud to automatically download back to your iPhone.

Part 3: Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone Using iCloud (Slow & Blind Full Restore)

Method 1. Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone with iCloud Backup

Method 2. Transfer Data from iPhone to iPhone with iCloud Syncing

Before transferring everything from one iPhone to another with iCloud syncing, there are three things you need to know firstly:

1) Both of your iPhones can be connected to Wi-Fi network.

2) You need to log in the same Apple ID on both of your devices.

3) You need to repeat the steps on both of your iPhones.

Then follow the steps below to transfer data to iPhone with iCloud syncing.

Step 1: On your iPhone, tap on Settings apps > Click your Apple ID’s profile > Select iCloud.

Step 2: Select the categories you want to transfer like, Photos, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Notes, etc., and then tap on it to turn it on one by one. And then wait for the process to finish. How long this process will last depends on the size of the data you want to transfer to iPhone 6/6s/7/8/X/XS (Max)/XR and the speed of your network.

Part 4: Best iPhone to iPhone Transfer Solution – Comparison Chart

	AnyTrans for iOS	iTunes	iCloud Sync	iCloud Backup
Transfer Media Files
1-Click Transfer
Selectively Transfer
No Data Loss
Transfer Speed	Fast	Fast	Slow	Slow
No Internet Needed
No Apple ID limit
Availability	Free Trail

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