How To Keep Your iPhone And iPad in Sync To Share Data Between Them

One of the perks of joining Apple’s ecosystem by using a few of their products like iPhones and iPads is the way they seamlessly share information with each other. Imagine having access to the same photos no matter which device you carry.

However, this convenient feature does not work the way you think. It is not as easy as you press a button and everything will happen by itself. That is the bad news, and the good news is, by using Continuity, you can have something really close to what you imagine.

How To Sync Emails Between Your iPhone And iPad

Most people use something like Gmail, IMAP, and Exchange to deal with emails. So it is quite easy to read them on the iPad and iPhone.

Choose Settings app on your iOS device (iPhone or iPad)

Pick the tab “Passwords and Accounts.”

Pick “Add Account”

Type your email and access the program

Add that account on the other device

Type the email you want to sync in

This is precisely a manual process, but the good news is, you only need to do it once. From then on, the devices will stay synced. Please note that a POP account is an exception. As all the data are stored on the device itself.

How To Sync Photos Between Your iPhone And iPad

If you upload your photos to iCloud, they will be automatically synced among your devices, which means if you take pictures with your iPhone, you can access them via iPad and vice-versa.

On your iPad, access Settings

Locate the Apple ID and tap it

Choose iCloud

Choose Photos

Turn the iCloud Photos on

Turn your iCloud Photos on

Do the same thing with your iPhone

Please note that when you delete a photo on a device, its version on other devices will be removed too.

How To Sync Messages Between Your iPhone And iPad

On your iPhone, access Settings

Choose Messages

Choose Text Message Forwarding

Choose Text Message Forwarding

When the list of devices pop up, tap the name of the iPad

When you see a window asking for a code, type in the number you see appear on the iPhone

Now you can get access to your message history on both devices

How To Sync Clipboard Between Your iPhone And iPad So That You Can Copy And Paste

Users can copy text on an iPad and then paste it on something on the iPhone. However, to do that, you have to sync the clipboard between them first.

The first step is to initiate a function named Handoff.

On your iPhone access Settings

Tap on General

Turn the feature on

Repeat the process on your iPad

When you have had “Handoff” activated in both your iPhone and iPad, now you can copy anything on one device, and you can paste it on the other.

How To Sync Documents Between Your iPhone And iPad

If you allow iCloud to work on your apps and activate Handoff, many features will be synced between the iPhone and iPad. Documents, including spreadsheet, are one of them.

For those who use iWork (Another Apple’s product), which has Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, the program will keep your content synced automatically by uploading them to iCloud. In this case, you do not have to do much because you can get access to the same documents no matter what on create it on.

Users who do not have iWork, another option is to use Microsoft Office or Google Docs. The principle is the same here. Both suites can sync content to the cloud with Google Drive and OneDrive respectively, which means you automatically have access to your documents from any iOS device you have.