What's the Best Way to Set up iPhone 8?

So if you get the chance to have a new iPhone 8, you will need to think about how to set up the new iPhone before you could experience the great fun it would offer. It's not difficult to set up iPhone 8 as Apple and many other forums offer tips for you. The most difficult part of the setup lies in how to transfer the data and files from your old phone to your new iPhone 8, especially if your old phone is not an iPhone.


If you are going to take up an iPhone 8, you need to set up iPhone 8. You may find tips and tricks on the setup, but you could having difficulties in the starting phase. On one hand, if you are an iPhone user upgrading to iPhone 8, you can start from scratch or restore from iTunes or iCloud backup. If you choose to start from scratch, you will need to set up preferences for everything, download apps from Apple store, purchase music and video collections, etc. And this may require a jailbreak for the old iPhone because of the Apple's boundary. On the other hand, it will take you a lot of time to make backup and restore from iTunes or iCloud backup for the new iPhone 8. And the process is always coming with unstability due to the network condition.


And it is more complicated If you are moving from Android or Symbian to iOS. You know the differences and difficulties between different platforms. And as the biggest rival to each, Apple would not be willing to witness you to jump over to Android but it does make it easy for you to switch over from Android to iOS. You can go to Google Play and download the "Move to iOS" app and install it on your Android phone, but it takes pain to setup and transfer data.


So you may wondering if there is an easy way to set up iPhone 8. Congratulations! You've just landed on the right place. With a cross-platform phone to phone data transfer app like Phone to Phone Transfer, everything becomes so easy and direct. Within 3 steps, you can complete the transfer between any two smartphones despite of operating system: iOS, Android or Symbian. Here is how:

Step 1: Launch Phone to Phone Transfer

First you need to download and install the iPhone data transfer app on your computer. And then you can launch the program to enter the user interface where you can choose "Phone to Phone Transfer".

Step 2: Connect Smartphones & PC

In the next screen, you will need to connect your smartphones respectively to the computer via USB data cable. Once connected, Phone to Phone Transfer will detect your mobile devices and display the phone models on the position of either source phone or destination phone. If the position is reversed, you can click "Flip" to change the position.

               Transfer from iPhone to iPhone 8

              Transfer from Android to iPhone 8

           Transfer from iPhone 8 to Android

Step 3: Select & Transfer Data

After things are set up, you will need to select which data types to transfer. After you finish selecting, click the "Start Copy" icon and Phone to Phone Transfer will start to transfer data from the source phone to the destination phone. Once the transfer process is done, you can set up iPhone 8 using the data and files you've that transferred.