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Dr.Fone - Phone Transfer
Feb 13, 2025 • Filed to: Data Transfer Solutions • Proven solutions
Pros: iTunes can backup and restore most data on iPad (iOS 17 supported) for free. The data include purchased songs, podcasts, books, apps, photos and videos taken and shot with iPad, contacts, messages, wallpapers, app data and more.
Cons: It's time-consuming. Media files synced from the computer are not allowed to be backed up and restored. Besides, the backup process may be failed to start and something wrong may happen to terminate the backup and restore process in midway.
Pros: iCloud helps you backup and restore most of data. They're the purchased history of music, TV shows, movies, apps, and books (not themselves), photos and video saved in the Camera Roll, devices setting, messages, ringtones, visual voice mail, home screen, apps data and so on.
Cons: It needs stable WiFi networks to make sure the backup and restore process. It takes much time. Worse still, as for the media not-purchased from iTunes, iCloud fails to backup and restore.
What if you want to copy the non-purchased items to your new iPad Pro/Air? It's easy now. The Dr.Fone - Phone Transfer comes for your help. It's professionally designed for helping you transfer data between any two phones and tablets when they run Android, iOS or Symbian (only Windows version supports transferring files to and from Symbian devices). It gives you the power to transfer all music, calendar, messages, videos, photos and contacts from the old iPad to iPad Pro/Air with a single click. You can transfer all you data from old iPad to iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad air 3 or iPad Mini 3, ipad mini 4, easily and quickly. Quite convenient, isn't it?
Transfer Data from Old iPad to iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or iPad Mini 3
Download and install Dr.Fone on the computer. Double-click the installation package on the computer screen to launch it. In the primary window, click "Phone Transfer". This brings up the iPad transfer window.
Connect both of your old iPad and iPad Pro/Air to the computer. The software will detect and show them in this window.
As you see, all the data that are allowed to transfer are listed and checked between the both iPads, including music, video, photos, calendar, iMessages and contacts. Go and click "Start Transfer". Then, the old iPad to iPad Pro/Air data transfer begins. Be sure that neither iPad is disconnect in the whole course.
Pros: Both the purchased and non purchased items are allowed to transfer. Besides, the current data on iPad Pro/Air won't be removed before the data on old iPad is imported. Additionally, It doesn't need any WiFi networks, and the transfer process is extremely quick and safe.
Cons:This software is helpless when you want to restore settings, app, app data and visual voice mail.
That's all about how to transfer data to new iPad Pro/Air from the old iPad. Choose a method you like and have a try.
Tips:
After the data transfer, you may want to manage your new iPad Pro/Air. Dr.Fone -Switch is a good choice. It is one click to transfer all your datas to your iPad.
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