How to use Smart Switch to transfer content with your PC or Mac?

Billy Smith
3 min readMar 19, 2021

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When you are moving to a new Samsung Galaxy device, you need to transfer stuff from your old device to your new device. Most people use various file transferring tools for this purpose. But have you ever used the Samsung Smart Switch app with your Android device to share files? If your answer is ‘No’, this is your chance. Here in this article, we are going to discuss the PC version of this Smart Switch app. It is compatible with both Windows and Mac devices. As your desire, you can either download the Mac version or the Windows version of this app on your computer.

Samsung Smart Switch

Smart Switch Download on Windows and Mac

When concerning the Windows version of the Samsung Smart Switch app, it’s compatible with almost all Windows operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. If you are using the Smart Switch PC version on your Mac computer, it should be Mac OS X 10.9 or a later. However, the gross transferring process remains the same in both Windows and Mac devices but slightly different from each other.

Outstanding features of Smart Switch PC Version

  • It is totally free and safe to download and install on your computer.
  • Unlike other file-sharing tools, it will not consume a long time to complete the transferring process.
  • Smart Switch app will not harm or delete any of your personal data therefore you do not need to worry about any data loss.
  • Even if you are a beginner at this, you can do the sharing process without any hassle because of the user-friendly interface of this app.

The easiest way to use Smart Switch on Mac

First, download and install the latest version of Samsung Smart Switch for Mac using the download page of our official website. Once the installation is completed, launch the app on your Mac computer and connect your Samsung device to it using a proper USB cable. Your device will be automatically detected by the program once it connected.

Now click on the ‘backup’ option to transfer data using Smart Switch for Mac. This will involve a system-wide backup of your Samsung handset. Similarly, you can restore the content of a previously saved backup to your Samsung by clicking the “Restore” button. You can also manually restore an iTunes backup to your Samsung by going to the more backup options menu.

How to use Smart Switch with your Windows computer?

As we explained above, do the initial procedures and launch the Samsung Smart Switch app on your Windows computer. Connect your Samsung device to it with a proper USB cable wait until it detects your device. Now move to your Mobile device and pull down the notification shade. Then click on the notification for ‘other USB options’. Next, click on the ‘transfer files’ option. Now you can select the files that you want to transfer and finally click on the ‘send’ button to continue.

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