One of the main drawbacks of users who come or consider coming from other operating systems to iOS It is undoubtedly how to transfer music to iPhone without iTunes. To use them as a ringtone, message, or simply listen to them because you simply have them, or because they are not available on streaming platforms. For years the alternative has always been to use iTunes, but that route actually stopped being interesting years ago.
In today's article we tell you how to transfer all your songs from your computer to your iPhone, or from your Android phone to your iPhone. We're going to make it even more difficult, We will not have to require anything more than our computer, mobile phone and iPhone. Without having to use cables, adapters or memories. The only thing we will require is an internet connection.
Although there are many ways to achieve it, and as is well known iTunes is also still a method that works. We will opt for the simplest method.
Since iOS released the native Files application. Nothing about passing files to us, regardless of whether it is music or any other type of document, can be an excuse. Everything will be as simple as communicating through a cloud. In the examples that we will see, they will all be taking the Apple cloud as an example, since it is where we finally want to end up, in the ecosystem of the bitten apple. However, It is also replicable using any other cloud, be it Google, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc...
How to transfer music from computer to iPhone without iTunes
The first case that we will see will be the simplest, since everyone is capable of connecting an Android mobile to their computer to transfer files in the conventional way. It could also be the case that it is the place where we have our entire downloaded music library. Either way, will be our transfer source example for music files.
Prepare a cloud storage service
The easiest step to transfer files of any type on iPhone will be to use a cloud storage service.
The first thing we will have to do is link cloud storage service with our Files app. For them, it will be enough to download the application of the cloud service in question. The exception will be if we are going to use iCloud Drive, where we will not need to perform this step.
Once we have the installed application and we have logged into it. We can go to the iOS Files application. There we can click on the three little dots located in the upper right part of the screen, to select Edit. Here we can select cloud storage services in which we have logged in through its application on the iPhone, just as we have done in the previous step.
Transfer files via cloud storage service
The only thing we have left in this step will be to go to our computer, where we simply we will have to transfer the files that we want to obtain on our iPhone to the cloud storage service that we are using. If you are going to use iCloud Drive on a computer other than a Mac, all you have to do is enter the iCloud web, or install the application for Windows right there, for example. In case you are using a Mac, you can simply leave the files in any folder that is synced with the cloud.
As a last point, we would have to go back to our iPhone, where they will appear as the files that we have transferred from the computer are synchronized. It will be enough to move them where we want to place them. We can create a local music folder on the iPhone, leave it in the cloud storage service to have it synchronized with the computer... The possibilities are many. Even so, our recommendation is still to use a streaming music service like Apple Music where this entire process is done automatically and you do not have to transfer files as in the past with MP3s.
How to transfer music from Android to iPhone without iTunes
Now we will see a case similar to the one we saw in the computer case. Actually the steps could be practically the same. However, We will give it a little spin so that you can see one more possibility than you have at your disposal.
Let's say we are using a Google cloud storage service, since if we are using iCloud Drive it would be too simple.
Prepare a cloud storage service
The previous point will be the same as the previous point. In this case, it will be enough for us to have some way on our Android mobile to upload the files to the Google cloud, either manually or automatically because it is synchronized. The important thing is that they are available in the cloud.
Once this is done, we can select multiple files, even multiple folders, which can be really more useful to us. We will want it to later share it through a link. We can indicate the type of privacy for the link, if it is read, write or if it requires some other permission to be viewed. In any case, this will only be a temporary step that we can later delete without worries.
Transfer files via cloud storage service
Now that we have our link to content from another cloud storage service, We will only have to enter from our iPhone. We can use an installed application as we saw in the first case, and even transfer all the files thanks to the interconnection of platforms that iOS Files offers us. However, to make it more complicated, we will return to the more methodical case.
What we will have to do is Enter this link from our browser. Once inside we can select and download, even if it is a complete folder, the files that we have previously uploaded.
Finally, they will be in the Files application, presumably in the Downloads folder. In this way, and as in the previous point, We will only have to move the files to where we want to have them definitively located on our iPhone.