Sharing media between two Android devices is a breeze. Just turn on Bluetooth, search for the device, hit the send button and boom, the files are transferred. However, if it’s between Android and iOS devices, things change. While you can turn on and use Bluetooth on your iPhone, you can’t share files from iOS to a non-iOS device.
One can always use the internet as a transfer method using apps like WhatsApp or Bump, but why waste bandwidth, right? What about videos that often have huge file sizes?
So today I’m going to talk about an alternative with which you can share photos and videos between these devices over Wi-Fi, even if there’s no hotspot to connect nearby.
Share photos or videos using PhotoSync
First, we will see how we can transfer photos from one device to another when both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi connection. We will be using an app called PhotoSync, available for both iPhone and Android, for this task.
The app can also be used to sync photos to your computer and online accounts, however we already have apps like AirDroid and Google Drive Sync for this, so we don’t need to press emphasis on this particular aspect of the application. Instead, we will focus on how to use it to transfer our photos from Android to iPhone over Wi-Fi.
To get started, install the PhotoSync app on both devices. While the free Android version has ads, the iPhone version costs $2.99 as a one-time fee.
After you install the app, make sure both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network and launch it. Now select the photo or video you want to transfer on your iPhone and hit the red sync button on the top right.
Having done that, select the transfer mode. we will choose Phone/Tablet.
The application will search and automatically detect any nearby devices that have PhotoSync installed and running on it. Now all you need to do is tap the device in the list and transfer the file.
If for some reason the app can’t find the device automatically, you can configure the device’s IP manually. The IP of the phone you are sending the file from along with the port number in . can be found Receive navigation.
Files are transferred over a Wi-Fi connection and are therefore relatively faster than file transfers over Bluetooth. iPhone users will find it similar to their own Airdrop.
So that’s how to get it done when there’s a shared Wi-Fi.
When There’s No Generic Wi-Fi Connection
Chances are you need to transfer content from Android to iPhone (or vice versa) and can’t find a universal Wi-Fi to connect to is very high. You might want to do it to share or get a photo or file from a friend’s phone, in a place that may not have Wi-Fi. So how to go about it in that case then?
Most of you probably figured that we would use one of our smartphones as a mobile hotspot and then connect the second device directly to the first via a Wi-Fi connection. Fi.
On iPhone, turn on Personal hotspot settings to force your 3G connection and then connect android device to it.
Once both devices are connected, you can transfer files just like we did with the router around. I have tested this and it works perfectly without any manual configuration.
So that’s how you can transfer photos or videos between Android and iPhone (or iPad for that matter). PhotoSync makes this process pretty easy. If you know a better way, we’d love to hear about it.
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