How to Switch Blackberry SMS and Contacts to iPhone 5S / 5C / 5

by Riliiy Ray Soft

Just got your brand new iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4 and have no idea about how to extract the contacts and SMS text messages from your Blackberry to iPhone effortlessly?

After being excited about the arrival of your new iPhone, you calm yourself down and a trouble troubles you: what would you do about your contacts and SMS on your old Blackberry? Piece of cake. As you may know, Blackberry has its own version of iTune — Blackberry® Desktop Software, which can help you back up all the data on your phone. And then you can turn to a data manager for help. Here we strongly recommend you to try Wondershare MobileTrans.

Reasons to select the Wondershare MobileTrans:

One click to move both business and personal contacts from Blackberry to iPhone 5S/5C/5
The only approach around the world to export Blackberry SMS text messages to iPhone
Perfectly work on BlackBerry phone based on OS 7.1 and earlier and Blackberry® Desktop Software 7.0 & 7.1
Fully compatible with iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS running iOS 7/6/5
Totally risk-free and zero data loss
Support more than 2,000 portable devices that run iOS, Android and Symbian

Tutorial on how to transfer SMS and contacts from Blackberry to iPhone 5S/5C/5

Now that you have already known some amazing features of Wondershare MobileTrans, then just waste no more time to download it and have a try yourself. You can follow the detailed tutorial below step by step.

Step 1: Use Blackberry® Desktop Software to back up your Blackberry

At the very beginning, double click the installer to install the Blackberry® Desktop Software on your PC. Then launch it and plug in your BlackBerry to the PC. Once your BlackBerry is connected and displayed in the window, press "Back up now" to start backing up your Blackberry data. If you have already made the backup, just skip this step. Plus, make sure you have installed iTunes on your PC since only with iTunes installed can Wondershare MobileTrans works properly.

Step 2: Plug in your iPhone to the PC

After you download and install the Wondershare MobileTrans on the PC, double click the quick start icon on the desktop to run it. Then connect your iPhone 5S/5C/5 with the PC via an Apple USB cable. In the main window, navigate to the Backup and Restore mode and hit the Restore button.

Step 3: Switch contacts and SMS text messages from Blackberry to iPhone 5S/5C/5

Your iPhone will show up in the window as long as it is detected. On the left side, press the inverted triangle to display the pull-down list. Directly choose BlackBerry backup file. Then, in a minute, all backup files you have ever made through BlackBerry Desktop Software will be listed out.

Just choose what you want. As you may notice, both contacts and SMS text messages are selected. If you don't want to move contacts from BlackBerry to iPhone, you just need to tick text messages only. In order to get both, you can simply hit the "Start Copy" bar.

Fantastic! Now you can browse your Blackberry contacts and SMS on your new iPhone 5S/5C/5. Just try Wondershare MobileTrans!