{"id":411,"date":"2014-03-14T02:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:40:31","slug":"transfer-contacts-sms-blackberry-phone-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/transfer-contacts-sms-blackberry-phone-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to transfer Contacts and SMS from Blackberry Phone to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

94% of T-Mobile customers trading in a BlackBerry during promotion, switched to another platform like Android, iOS and Windows. If you are happen to upgrade from Blackberry to Apple iPhone. There must be some important contacts or SMS you want to transfer to the new iPhone. And here is a step by step guide will show you how to do that, as long as you have made a backup of your BlackBerry to computer with the BlackBerry\u00ae Desktop Software.<\/p>\n

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The tool you need is this Phone to Phone Transfer<\/a><\/strong> (also named as MobileTrans). I have tried many solutions to transfer the blackberry stuff, freeware and shareware. They are neither have viruses and spyware, nor work. Some even corrupt my computer. And this phone transfer works pretty well, more important, it’s really easy to use. Now, let’s start the guide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step1. Backup your Blackberry<\/b><\/p>\n

You have to make a backup of your Blackberry first. You can download the BlackBerry\u00ae Desktop Software free from blackberry.com, link as follow:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/us.blackberry.com\/software\/desktop.html<\/a><\/p>\n

And then install the software, lunch it. Connect your Blackberry phone to computer with the USB cable. The software will recognized your blackberry phone, click the Back up Now button, all your blackberry data will be backup on your computer. Remember the backup file where you save on the computer.<\/p>\n

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Step2. Retrieve the Blackberry Backup to iPhone<\/b><\/p>\n

Connect your iPhone to computer with USB cable. Download and install the Phone to Phone transfer, launch it. Go to the Backup and Restore mode and click Restore. The Phone transfer will recognize your iPhone as follow image.<\/p>\n

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On the left side, click the inverted triangle to show the pull-down list. Select\u00a0<\/span>BlackBerry backup file<\/i>. Then, all backup files you have ever made with BlackBerry\u00ae Desktop Software are listed out. Select the files you want, click Start Copy button to transfer the files to your new iPhone, that’s all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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