Fastest way to transfer files between iPhones
QuikIO allows you to transfer photo, video and any saved files between iPhones using the “QuikBeam” feature. This feature can become handy when your friends want to get a copy of your files to their iPhones.
If your friends are nearby, you can either use 3G/4G/LTE or Wi-Fi to transfer files. However, transferring large files over 3G/4G/LTE can easily eat up your monthly data plan. Often time, Wi-Fi may not be nearby and can be slow because of distance and the number of the users in the network.
Here is how mobile hotspot comes to the rescue. If you have mobile hotspot enabled on your iPhone, you can set up the connection between two iPhones. This has been proven to be the fastest and most reliable way to get your job done. With iPhone 5, the transferring speed can be up to 35Mbps whereas your regular connection speed with public Wi-Fi can be running at 2-10Mbps.
With 35Mbps transferring speed in your pocket, it take less than 3 minute to transfer 1G Byte video. For other file types that are typically smaller, transferring would be done before you even notice.
What’s great is that there is simply no data plan consumption since all data are transferred between two iPhones through direct Wi-Fi connection. You get best of both worlds - fastest transfer, and no data usage cost.
Want to learn how to do this? Here are the steps on:
First, make sure that your data plan allows you to enable mobile hotspot on your iPhone. As long as one of the phones can become mobile hotspot, you are ready to go
Access the Settings menu from your iPhone
Find “Personal Hotspot” and press the selection
Turn on personal hotspot on one of the iPhones
Turn on the Wi-Fi search on the other iPhone and connect to the mobile hotspot
Now both phones are connected through mobile hotspot Wi-Fi directly
Initiate the file transfer from camera roll or saved folder. Or you can even transfer files from other apps on your iPhone by “Open in” files with QuikIO. In this example, we will show how to transfer a previously saved video file
Press “Action” button - the one with uparrow. Then select videos you wish to transfer, Press “QuikBeam” to send to your friend.
If you don’t know your nearby friends’ ID, you can use QuikIO’s smart finder. Have your friend press “QuikIO” logo
Select your friend, then press Send button. You are ready to connect to your friend’s iPhone for file transferring
Your speed will vary at the range of 25-35 Mbps depending on the file type and the interference in your environment. But this is just blazingly fast
The transfer will be completed very shortly. Yes, for this Harlem Shake video, it took 20 seconds
Now, you friend can have copy and enjoy. Even better, you friend can share this video with other friends
