Looking to transfer your old iPhone photos and albums to your recently acquired new iPhone or iPad? Follow the steps below and a few clicks later you’ll have all photos and albums copied over. The method transfers the entirety of your old iPhone pictures from the Camera Roll and from custom albums you created later. It works with all iPhone and iPad models and all iOS versions.

• First, copy the old iPhone photos and albums to a PC
• Next, transfer the photos and albums from PC to the new iPhone

First, copy the old iPhone photos and albums to a PC

1. Download the following PC program from the page below

• http://www.copytrans.net/copytransphoto/

2. Start the program and connect your old iPhone. The iPhone photos and albums appear on the left

3. Click the orange “Full backup” button on top

4. Select the PC location where to copy the old iPhone photos and albums and click OK

5. The photos and albums are copied to the selected location exactly as they appear on your old iPhone.

Next, transfer the photos and albums from PC to the new iPhone

1. With the program running, disconnect the old iPhone and connect the new iPhone or iPad to your PC

2. Drag and drop all albums from the PC location to the far left side of the main program window as shown below

3. Click on the “Apply changes” button

You now have your old iPhone photos and albums loaded on the new device. Enjoy!

This is how to transfer photos from one iPhone to another iPhone in just a few clicks. Learn more.

Little by little, iTunes sheds off sync features that are not related to Apple's ecosystem. iTunes 11 scrapped sync with Yahoo contacts. Now, iTunes 12 no longer features notes sync with Outlook for iOS 9 devices. This is not the end of the world, however. You can continue syncing iPhone notes with Outlook without iTunes. Just follow these steps.

Instead of iTunes, use CopyTrans Contacts to transfer notes between Outlook and iPhone

Follow one of the links below to learn how to:

• Copy iPhone notes to Outlook without iTunes
• Transfer Outlook notes to iPhone without iTunes

iTunes often returns errors with a code and a vague message during iPhone backup. If you are in such a no-go situation, you’ve arrived at the right place. I’ll show you how to backup iPhone without errors and avoiding iTunes as a whole.

Backup iPhone without iTunes

1. First, get the free CopyTrans Shelbee tool on your computer. CopyTrans Shelbee is a dedicated iPhone backup utility that allows you to backup iOS content such as iPhone settings, apps including app documents, messages, contacts, calendars as well as camera roll photos and videos. Download the program from here:

• http://www.copytrans.net/shelbee.php

2. Launch CopyTrans Shelbee and connect your iPhone

3. Click “Backup”

4. Click “Full backup”

5. You can now select the location where to save the backup. To do so, click on the green icon on the right

On many occasions, iTunes cannot backup your iPhone due to too low disk space on your PC. CopyTrans Shelbee allows you to backup to a location of your choice like to an external drive with plenty of available space.

6. Once you select the location of the backup, click “Start”

7. Your iPhone is being backed up. Stand-by until the operation is complete

8. At the end of the backup, click “Done”

This is a quick way to backup iPhone with CopyTrans Shelbee while avoiding unexpected and vague iTunes error messages.

Installing apps on your iPhone with iTunes could be a burden as it requires you to use the elusive iTunes sync. iCloud on the other hand, does not allow the installation of separate iPhone apps but rather the restore of the entire iPhone to a previous state.

This is a quick tutorial showing you how to install individual apps and app-related data such as preferences and documents without iTunes, iCloud and without the need to jailbreak.

Install apps on iPhone from IPA files on PC

1. Download CopyTrans Apps on your computer. This free Beta program helps you manage iPhone apps (i.e. install, back up and transfer them) without jailbreak, iTunes or iCloud. Download it from here:

• http://www.copytrans.net/copytransapps.php

2. After starting the program on your computer, connect the iPhone where you wish to install apps. Let your existing iPhone apps list in the window

2. If you have already downloaded the app IPA file(s) on your PC or have the IPA files in the iTunes Mobile Applications folder, drag and drop those to the open CopyTrans Apps window

3. The apps are installed on the iPhone or iPad of your choice

You can alternatively use CopyTrans Apps to transfer iOS apps and app documents from one iPhone to another iOS device. To do so, follow this tutorial: http://iphone-contacts.blogspot.ch/2014/02/how-to-transfer-iphone-apps-to-pc.html

This is how to install apps on iPhone without the need for iCloud, iTunes or jailbreak.

Skype recently announced a revamped new version of its iPhone app. While the new version 5 vastly improves visual appearance and style over its predecessor, it lacks a number of critical features present in version 4. The ability to send SMS messages over Skype on the iPhone was scrapped. This tutorial will help you downgrade Skype for iPhone to the previous version of the app so that you can continue sending SMS text messages to your contacts.

1. If you don't already have the old version of Skype (i.e. v4.1) on your iPhone, download the IPA app file for that previous version from my Google Drive:

• https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0ByDeXWt8aBwsRG51SWNnVlppNjA&export=download

2. Now that you have the old version of the Skype app on your computer, you need to install it on the iPhone. Install the old version of Skype via using CopyTrans Apps which is a free Beta PC program that allows you to manage your iPhone apps from the computer. Download CopyTrans Apps from the following page:

• http://www.copytrans.net/copytransapps.php

3. Start CopyTrans Contacts and connect the iPhone to your computer. You will immediately see your iPhone apps beginning to load on your PC screen

4. Select the Skype app you already have installed on the iPhone from the main program window

5. From the top right-hand side, click on the "X" symbol to uninstall the app

6. Confirm the removal of Skype app's latest version from your iPhone

7. Now drag and drop the old version's IPA file from your PC to the left-hand side of the main CopyTrans Apps window

8. This will install the previous Skype version (v4.1) on your iPhone. Make sure to accept the installation popup by clicking "Ok"

9. On your iPhone Home Screen, open the newly-installed previous version of Skype and log in

10. This is it. You can send text messages again with Skype on your iPhone!

The latest version of Google Maps now offers to save street maps offline on your iPhone. This is a useful feature for those of us with slower data connections or for folks who don't have reception in a given area where they'd like to use the GPS functionality of their iPhone.

Here's how to make use of the ingenious and much awaited Google Maps offline feature.

1. Open the Google Maps app on your iPhone or iPad and tap on the user icon on the right of the top search bar

2. Scroll down until you see "Offline maps" and tap "Save map to use offline"

3. Center the iPhone screen around the region whose map you wish to save and tap "Save"

4. Give the new map a name and tap "Save" again

5. Stand-by until the map is saved to your iPhone memory. It can take a while especially if you are saving the map of a large city area

6. That's it. All your saved offline Google maps appear listed under the "Offline maps" section in the app

You can now use Google Maps even if your iPhone is out of range or in Airplane Mode. The iPhone GPS sensor will locate you on the saved map and you can start navigating your way! Enjoy!

Did you ever wonder how to export the iCloud calendar events to your PC or to Outlook? iCloud allows you to export contacts to the computer, but not calendars. The export method below is the only way I know of to export iCloud data to PC.

1. On your PC, download a program called CopyTrans Contacts from the following page:

• http://www.copytrans.net/copytranscontacts.php

2. Run the program and connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then click on More > Cloud setup

3. Now connect your iCloud account with the program by clicking on “New connection > iCloud”

4. Enter your iCloud username and password and be sure that the checkmark next to “Calendars” is active, click on “Add account”

5. Exit from the Cloud setup window and click on the “Calendar” icon on the left side of the main program window. The program will load your iCloud calendar event data. The iCloud calendars appear listed with a small cloud icon to the right under the “Calendars” pane

6. Select the iCloud calendar you want to export to Outlook or to backup to your PC and click “Export” selected

7. From the popup window choose what you’d like to do next. you can either export the iCloud calendar to Outlook on your PC (requires Outlook installation) or backup the calendar to a standard iCalendar file on your computer.

Export iCloud calendar to Outlook

1. To export to Outlook, click “Outlook (direct export to Outlook)”

2. If Outlook prompts you, allow access to its database

3. Your iCloud calendar is now exported to Outlook on the PC

Backup iCloud calendar to PC

1. To back up the iCloud calendar to a standard iCalendar file on your computer, click “File###” instead

2. Select the location where you want the file containing your iCloud calendar events to be saved on your PC and click OK.

3. Your iCloud calendar is now backed-up to an ICS (iCalendar) file on your PC. You can use this file to import the calendar to another iPhone (via using CopyTrans Contacts “Import calendars” function), or to any calendar manager which supports ICS files.

This is a unique way to export iCloud calendar to PC.

You don’t want to lose iPhone content you purchased especially if you misplace the iPhone or it gets stolen. To preserve important applications and app data, simply backup the iPhone apps along with other purchased items such as books or music to the PC.

Here's how to transfer iPhone apps and app documents to your computer:

Backup and transfer iPhone apps and app documents without iTunes or iCloud

To back up selected iPhone apps along with app settings to PC and, if needed, to transfer them to another iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, use CopyTrans Apps - a free Beta PC utility.

1. Download CopyTrans Apps from the following page:

• http://www.copytrans.net/copytransapps.php

2. Run the program on your PC and plug in the iPhone whose apps you wish to backup. The apps appear in the program window

3. Select the apps you want to back up

4. Click on the "Backup App" button

5. Select the location on your PC where to save the apps and app documents

6. Click the "Ok" button from the next window accepting the backup

7. The apps are backed up in to individual IPA files. Each IPA file contains the app installation file and the associated app documents and preferences

8. You can install the apps along with app documents on another iOS device such as iPad, another iPhone, or iPod Touch via simple drag and drop

Quick method to backup and transfer iPhone apps to iTunes

1. Run iTunes on your PC
2. Connect your iOS device to your computer and let it appear in the main iTunes window
   
   
3. Press the ALT button on your PC and navigate to File > Devices > Transfer purchases
   
   
4. If asked, authorize your PC by entering your Apple ID and password

Your iPhone apps are now backed up to your iTunes Media folder under “Mobile Applications”.

This is how to transfer iPhone aps to PC.

There have been a number of reports that iCloud Control Center fails to sync contacts and calendars to Outlook under the new Windows 8.1. This is quick to fix.

Contacts you add to iCloud are not automatically synced to Outlook on the PC and the same issue exists for calendars. To resolve the issue, follow the instructions below:

• Solution 1
• Solution 2
• Solution 3 – Manually sync iCloud contacts and calendars to Outlook

Solution 1:

1. Open iCloud Control Panel on your Windows 8.1 PC
   
   
2. Un-check the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks with Outlook” option and apply the changes.
   
   
3. Now, check back the box next to “Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks”
   
   
4. Open Outlook on your PC and see whether the issue is resolved.

Solution 2:

1. Run iCloud Control Panel on the computer
2. With the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks” option checked, click “Sign out”
   
   
3. Upon prompt, click “Delete from computer” this will only temporarily delete the contact and calendar entries from your Windows PC but will not affect the data saved in your iCloud account
   
   
4. Sign back in and select “Sync to Outlook”
5. Run Outlook on the PC and see whether the iCloud contacts and calendars have been synced

Solution 3 – Manually sync iCloud contacts and calendars to Outlook

If the above solutions fail to resolve the issue, use the following utility to manually sync your iCloud contacts and calendars to Outlook on any Windows 8.1 PC.

1. Download the tool from the following page. It works in a similar way to the iCloud Control Panel:
   
   http://www.copytrans.net/copytranscontacts.php
   
2. Run the program on your PC and connect your iCloud account by navigating to More > Cloud setup
   
   
3. Click iCloud
   
   
4. Enter the iCloud account username and password
   
   
5. Your iCloud contacts will appear in the main program window. You can see that these are sourced from iCloud by the little cloud icon on the left. Click on “Export selected”
   
   
6. Click “Outlook (direct export to Outlook)”
   
   
7. Select the Outlook Contacts where to transfer the iCloud contacts and click OK
   
   
8. The iCloud contacts are now manually synced to Outlook on Windows 8.1 without the need for iCloud Control Panel.
   
   

Solutions provided by Microsoft and Apple

• Despite the issue being widespread, Microsoft does not mention any details about it on the Windows Compatibility page dedicated to iCloud Control Panel.
• Apple, features a troubleshooting article for a related issue in case iCloud Control panel 3.0 or earlier fails to sync with Outlook due to an error message reading “The set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened”
• The following Apple Community thread could also be helpful in sorting out the iCloud failure to sync issue on Windows 8.1: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5462019
• Apple doesn’t mention anything about the Outlook sync problem on the iCloud Control Panel page dedicated to the latest v3.1.

Let me know in the comments section below if you found more solutions for iCloud Control Panel not syncing on Windows 8.1.