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Send videos from Android to iPhone

Send videos up to 1 GB from your Android to your iPhone without compression. No app or account.

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Clips are visible to devices on your Wi-Fi for 30 minutes. Avoid sending passwords.

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Quick Share doesn’t reach iPhones and AirDrop doesn’t reach Android, so moving things across usually means a cloud app or a chat app that compresses everything. Videos are the hard part: a minute of 4K phone video is a few hundred megabytes, far over email limits, and chat apps compress it.

The quick way, with fdrop

  1. 1

    Open fdrop.cc on the Android

    Open fdrop.cc in Chrome, tap the drop area and pick the videos from your gallery.

  2. 2

    Open fdrop.cc on the iPhone

    On the same Wi-Fi, the videos appear under “On your network” automatically. Anywhere else, send yourself the link fdrop gives you.

  3. 3

    Download

    Downloads land in the Files app under Downloads. Open the video, tap Share and choose Save Video to add it to Photos.

fdrop “On your network” list on an iPhone showing a photo, a video and a PDF sent from an Android phone
What the iPhone sees: everything sent from the Android on the same Wi-Fi, ready to download.

Other ways, and their catch

Google Photos

Back up the videos with Google Photos on the Android, then open the app or photos.google.com on the iPhone.

Good: Works across any platforms. Catch: Uploads everything first, needs your Google account on both, and Storage saver backups are compressed.

WhatsApp or Telegram to yourself

Send it to your own chat (Message yourself in WhatsApp, Saved Messages in Telegram) and open WhatsApp or Telegram on the iPhone.

Good: You probably have the app already. Catch: WhatsApp compresses photos and videos unless you send them as a Document or pick HD, and it fills your chat history.

Email it to yourself

Attach it (or paste it) in an email to yourself and open the email on the iPhone.

Good: Works on every device. Catch: Gmail attachments stop at 25 MB and Outlook.com at 20 MB, so most videos won’t fit.

Good to know

Questions

How do I send videos from Android to iPhone without a cable?

Open fdrop.cc on both devices, pick the videos on the Android and download them on the iPhone. No app or account needed. Of the built-in options, Google Photos is the closest, with the trade-offs listed above.

Will the videos lose quality?

No. fdrop doesn’t compress, resize or re-encode anything. The receiver gets the same file you uploaded.

Do the Android and iPhone need to be on the same Wi-Fi?

Only for the automatic “On your network” list. If the iPhone is somewhere else or on mobile data, copy the link fdrop gives you and open it there.

Do I need to install an app?

No. fdrop runs in Chrome on the Android and Safari on the iPhone. Nothing to install and no account.

How long do the files stay online?

2 hours by default. Pick 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days before uploading, or delete them yourself at any time from the device you uploaded on.

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