You can do the same with a lot of photo apps as well. If I expand this I can see the files that are stored there. But it does have its own private storage space. If I go back up here to this level I don't see that app listed here.
For instance, I like to use ProMovie here to record videos. Some apps actually have their own kind of private storage space. You can actually see more apps here than I will see in the Files App. If I look in Numbers, for instance, I'll see that exact same file that's in here in the Files App under On My iPhone you can see Docs and Numbers and there it is. If I go to Files I'll see Files stored here. If you connect your Mac with a cable then you should see it here in the Finder Sidebar. If I wanted to transfer files to my Mac I could just put it in any folder that's in iCloud Drive and find it in that same location on my Mac and vice versa.Īnother way to transfer files is to simply use a cable. I could go down to Projects and I'll see the same files right here. So that being the case if I go over to my iPhone and I look in iCloud Drive in the Files App I could see that same Documents Folder. If I Command click here I could see Projects is in my Documents which is in iCloud Drive. So, for instance, here on my Mac, I'm in my Projects Folder. Then you see the same files across those devices. Now perhaps the easiest way to transfer files between your devices is just to use iCloud. Let's go back into Browse here and up to My iPhone in Docs and you could see that the file is now there. For instance I could go into this Docs folder that I created. You could see it's going to ask me where to Save it. Since it is an RTF file it's going to offer me to open up in Pages and other apps that accept RTF files or I can just say I want it to go to the Files App. You could see it transfers and I get this little prompt here asking what I want to do with it. So I'm going to drag from this other window right into here. Now if I wanted to go from my Mac to the iPhone all I need to do is Drag and Drop something to the iPhone here in the Finder. I can Share using AirDrop and select here and you can see the file transfer over.
I can tap and Hold that file and you can see one of the options here is to Share. So, for instance, if I go into Numbers here I do have a Numbers file. Live apps allow you to save things anywhere you want. But you could also create your own folders and store your own things in here. You could go in there and usually you will find folders for different apps. Here you could see On My iPhone, which is local files. Now the equivalent to the Finder on the iPhone is the Files App. But if this was somebody else's Mac it would have asked them to accept. So I didn't need to give myself permission. Notice how it didn't even ask for permission there because it knew that both the devices have the same Apple ID. Here you could see the device appears there. For instance, in any app like Photos you can select a photo like this one, Share it, and then you could see one of the options here is AirDrop. Now if the idea is to transfer something from your iPhone to your Mac you can do that in a variety of different apps. So if you need to do a transfer really quick you can switch to Everyone, do the transfer, and then easily switch back to No One afterwards. You could switch between these really easily. Or Everyone, so anybody so it really doesn't matter. Then at the bottom pay careful attention to Allow Me to be discovered by, and then you've got No One which basically turns it off, Contacts Only so the person you're communicating with has to be in your Contacts. Now this brings up AirDrop and shows you nearby AirDrop devices. You may also find it listed here under Favorites. So here on my Mac I'm going to first, in the Finder, go to AirDrop.
There are, of course, more steps involved if it is somebody else's device you are transferring to or from. In other words if they are using the same Apple ID. How AirDrop works really depends on if you own both devices. AirDrop works between devices regardless of whether or not you own them both. One could be, say, your iPhone and another could be someone else's iPhone, iMac, or iPad. So AirDrop is a quick way to transfer a file between devices. But most of them work for any kind of file. Some of those options work just for photos. So there are many ways to transfer files between Macs and iPhones and iPads. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's take a look at different ways to transfer files between your Mac and your iPhone or iPad. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out 10 Ways To Transfer Files Or Photos Between Mac, iPhone and iPad at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.