How to Transfer Files from iPad to Android

Solution 1. Switch from iPad to Android with Dr.Fone - Phone Transfer

Got tired of spending a whole day in front of the computer on searching and trying the free solution and want to find an easier and convenient one? The professional phone transfer tool - Dr.Fone - Phone Transfer is all you need. With just one click, all contacts, photos, iMessages, calendar, video, and music will be switched from iPad to Android. The whole process just takes you a few minutes, which really saves your life.

Step 1. Connect your iPad and Android device to the computer

iTunes should be installed to ensure that Dr.Fone connects your iPad properly.

Tips: Want to transfer files from iPad to Android without a computer? Dr.Fone also provides an Android Switch app, which allows you to transfer files from iPad to Android directly, and get iCloud files on Android wirelessly.

Step 2. Copy music/photos/videos/iMessages/calendars/contacts from iPad to Android

As you see, both your Android device and iPad are shown in the primary window. All the contents you can copy are checked. Thus, click Start Transfer to begin the transfer.

Solution 2. Transfer files from iPad to Android Freely

1. Transfer photos from iPad to Android phone or tablet

Among all the files, photos in the iPad Camera Roll are easier to transfer. Here go the steps.

1. Mount your iPad on the computer as an external hard drive by plugging in a USB cable. Open it and find the DCIM folder. All photos you take and download are there.
2. Connect your Android phone or tablet to the computer with the USB cable. Likewise, navigate to its hard drive.
3. Open the Android hard drive and find or create a photo folder.
4. Copy the photos from the iPad DCIM folder to your Android photo folder.

2. Transfer music and videos from iPad to Android

It's clear that iTunes allows you to transfer the purchased music and videos from iPad to it. Thus, you can follow the way when you have multiple music and videos to be transferred.

1. Use the USB cable to connect your iPad to the computer and run iTunes.
2. Click Store > Authorize This Computer and input the apple id and password which is used to purchase the music and videos.
3. When your iPad is detected and shown in the left sidebar, right-click your iPad to show the drop-down list. Then, choose Transfer Purchased….

1. Go to the iTunes media folder on the computer. By default, it's saved at C:Users/Administrator/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media.
2. Mount your Android phone or tablet as a USB hard drive and paste the music and videos from the iTunes media folder.

You may find that some music and videos play well on your iPad, but can't play on your Android phone or tablet, like MOV, M4P, M4R, M4B. In this case, you have to find some audio and video converter to convert them first.

3. Transfer contacts from iPad to Android

To transfer iPad contacts to an Android phone or tablet, Google Sync is a good choice. No matter whether your iPad is running iOS 10/9/8/7 or iOS 5/6, it can do that for you.

When your iPad is running iOS 7, please follow the steps below:

1. On your iPad, tap Settings > Mails, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > Google.
2. Fill in your Google account info: name, user name, password, and description
3. Tap Next and ensure the Contacts icon is turned on.
4. Tap Save and the contact sync.
5. Go to your Android phone or tablet and tap Setting.
6. Choose Account & sync and fill in the account info and then tap Sync Contacts.
7. Tap Sync Now to sync Google contacts to your Android phone or tablet.

When your iPad is with iOS 5 or iOS 6, try the following:

1. Tap Settings on your iPad.
2. Tap Mails, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.
3. Choose Other > Add CardDAV Account.
4. Enter your account info: Service, user name, password, and description.
5. Tap Next on the top right corner and turn on Contacts.
6. On your Android phone or tablet, tap Setting > Accounts & sync.
7. Enter your Google account and tap Sync Contacts > Sync Now.

Note: Here are more details about syncing your iPad with the Google account.

However, what may disappoint you is that not all Android phones and tablet allows you to sync Google accounts. That is to say, you may can't use Google sync.

4. Transfer apps from iPad to Android

Don't want to lose your favorite apps after switching from iPad to Android? Don't worry. Google Play comes for you. It's the biggest Android app download center, which lets you quickly find what you want.

As for the apps you have paid for, you can try to get in touch with the app developer or the app store to see whether you can change the .ipa, .pxl, etc version to .apk version at a small cost.

Comparison of different iPad to Android transfer solutions

	Free Solution	Paid Solution - Dr.Fone - Phone Transfer
Photos	Photos in the Camera Roll: Mount the iPad as an external hard drive; Photos in Photo Library and iPhoto: no way available
Music/videos	Sync the purchased music/videos to iTunes and to the Android device
Contacts	Sync contacts via Google
Apps	Download the same apps from Google Play	Not support
Pros & Cons
Pros	Free of charge	Need a few minutes One-click to transfer all videos, photos, music, and contacts Extract and transfer texts from iMessage
Cons	Takes lots of time to search the solutions Transfer the files one by one After the transfer, the music or video may fail to play	Not free Fail to transfer apps from iPad to Android

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