Move from iPhone to Android — across the ecosystem divide
iPhone and Android share nothing — not AirDrop, not Quick Share, not a clipboard. Open a room in the browser on both, type the 6-digit code, and copy on one to paste on the other.
Cross-ecosystem sharing comes up constantly: at phone-switch time when you're moving to Android, or any day you've got an iPhone in one hand and an Android phone in the other and need a link or a photo to jump across. AirDrop won't see the Android phone and Quick Share won't see the iPhone, so there's no native handshake at all.
pastehere works because it doesn't care which phone is which — it's the same website on both. Open a room on the iPhone, type the six-digit code into the Android phone's browser, and copy on one to have it appear on the other. Text, links, screenshots and files all cross the divide.
How to do it in three steps
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Open a room on your iPhone
Go to pastehere.app in any browser and create a room. You'll get a six-digit code — no sign-up, nothing to install.
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Enter the code on your Android phone
Open the same site on your Android phone and type the six-digit code to join. The two devices agree on a key directly, so the server never sees it.
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Copy on one, paste on the other
Add text, a link, a screenshot or a file on either device and it appears on the other within a second. The room stays open until you destroy it.
Everything is encrypted in your browser with AES-256 before it leaves the device. Devices agree on the room key through a PAKE exchange over the 6-digit code, so the key never reaches the server — it only ever stores ciphertext.
What you can send
Anything that fits in a room moves both ways between your iPhone and your Android phone:
- TextNotes, passwords, addresses, long passages — no length limit.
- LinksOpen a tab on the other device with one tap.
- ImagesScreenshots and photos, kept at full quality.
- FilesPDFs, archives, any file type — up to 15 MB each, 100 MB per room.
Why iPhone and Android won't share directly
Apple's sharing (AirDrop, Universal Clipboard) is locked to Apple hardware. Google's Quick Share is locked to Android, Windows and ChromeOS. The two never meet, so there's no built-in way to flick a clipboard or a photo from an iPhone to an Android phone. People fall back to messaging themselves, which mangles image quality and can't carry arbitrary files.
For a full phone migration, Google's own "Switch to Android" app and a cable handle the bulk move of contacts, photos and messages well — use that for the big one-time transfer. For the everyday "just get this one thing across," a browser room is faster and keeps full image and file quality, encrypted end-to-end.
Questions
How do I send a photo from iPhone to Android without losing quality?
Open a room on both phones and add the photo on the iPhone — it arrives on the Android phone to download at full quality, unlike messaging yourself, which often recompresses images. Up to 15 MB per image.
Is there an AirDrop between iPhone and Android?
No — AirDrop is Apple-only and Quick Share is Android-only, so they can't talk to each other. pastehere does the same job over the web: pair the two phones with a 6-digit code, then copy on one and paste on the other.
I'm switching from iPhone to Android — can this move everything?
For the big one-time migration of contacts, photos and messages, use Google's Switch to Android app or a cable. pastehere is for the quick, ongoing hand-offs — a link, a file, a block of text — without installing anything or signing in.