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Question

Iphone 7 plus

Apr 9, 2017 11:36PM PDT

I have recently upgraded my iPhone 5 to iPhone 7 plus but dont know how to transfer all picture and specific apps directly from my iphone 5 to my iphone 7 plus? i dont wanna use i tunes etc ? is there any other simple way to transfer things?

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Apps are the hard part w/o iTunes
Apr 10, 2017 11:14AM PDT

Photos are easy. First upload to dropbox, google drive, Amazon Prime photos, etc. Lots of others. Then, on the new phone, install the respective cloud storage app and re-download to your new 7 plus. Done.

Are you referring to Apps no longer available for download in the app store? Those older ones pulled from the App store AFAIK will still require you to use a local copy saved on the PC via iTunes AFAIK. Read up on the sync process @ Apple support site before diving in. Also, it's a good idea to save a copy of your phone using iCloud too in case something goes wrong with the local iTunes backups, etc.

For something still available, you do not need to transfer apps when moving to a new iPhone. Just re-download from the app store, or, restore from a backup copy in iCloud.

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Without iTunes?
Apr 10, 2017 12:15AM PDT

I have to ask why? I used it so many times and well, you do have to check off backup this and that but I don't get the aversion here.

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Transfer data from old iPhone to new iPhone
Apr 11, 2017 1:25AM PDT

I know one product can help you transfer data from old iPhone to new iPhone. But you need to download Phone Transfer from RecoveryAndroid first. It is easy, you can connect your new and old iPhone after installing the program. Then you can pick data types you want to transfer and click "Start Copy" button to transfer. It really solved my problem recently. Using it to transfer data from iPhone to Android is also work.
Hope this can help.