How to send photos and videos from an iPhone to an Android phone
By Thavasi · Updated 2 November 2026
Sending photos from an iPhone to an Android phone used to mean WhatsApp, which shrinks them, or uploading everything to the cloud. Today there are better options. Which one is easiest depends on your Android phone.
Quick answer
| Method | Install anything? | Works with | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser tool (WifloShare) | No | Any iPhone, any Android phone | Original |
| AirDrop to Quick Share | No | Only some newer Android phones | Original |
| Google Photos or Drive | App on the iPhone | Any phone, with internet | Original (uses your storage) |
| WhatsApp photo | Already installed | Any phone | Compressed |
Option 1: From Safari, with no app
- Put both phones on the same Wi‑Fi Or turn on one phone's hotspot and connect the other to it. Mobile data alone is slower and limited, so a shared Wi‑Fi or hotspot works best.
- On the iPhone, open wifloshare.com in Safari Tap Tap to choose files, then Photo Library, and select your photos and videos.
- On the Android phone, open wifloshare.com Tap Receive, type the 6‑character code (or scan the QR code), then tap Download.
- Done Several photos arrive as one ZIP file. Open it from your Files app to extract them.
Keep Safari open and the iPhone screen on until it finishes: iPhones pause web pages in the background. If you get interrupted, open the same code again and it continues where it stopped.
Try it now: open wifloshare.com on both devices. It's free, with no sign-up and no size limit.
Open WifloShareOption 2: AirDrop, if your Android phone supports it
Google has been adding AirDrop support to Quick Share. By mid‑2026 it worked on phones such as the Pixel 10, Pixel 9 and Pixel 8a, the Samsung Galaxy S26, and some OPPO and Vivo models, with more Samsung, OnePlus, Honor and Xiaomi phones announced. If your phone has it, the iPhone can AirDrop straight to it. Both devices usually need to be visible to Everyone for a few minutes.
Not sure? Open Quick Share on the Android phone: if it mentions AirDrop or Apple devices, you can use it.
Option 3: Google Photos or Google Drive
Install Google Photos (or Drive) on the iPhone, back up or upload the photos, then open them on the Android phone with the same Google account, or share a link. It works over any distance, but everything is uploaded first, which takes time and uses your Google storage.
Option 4: WhatsApp (quick, but lower quality)
Normal WhatsApp photos are compressed. The HD option is better, but still not the original. To keep the original, send it as a document instead of a photo; it then arrives untouched, up to 2 GB per file.
Photos won't open on Android?
iPhones save photos as HEIC to save space. Most recent Android phones open HEIC fine. If yours doesn't, open it in Google Photos, or set the iPhone to take JPG from now on: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible.