Transfer files from PC to iPhone?

[singlecoil]

Straightforward with Android of course, but I haven't yet found a way of doing it with the new iPhone I got (because I wanted the video capabilities and the easy access to add-ons).

Any suggestions (apart from getting a Samsung)?

[MitchT]

Log in to iCloud on PC.
Upload files to iCloud folder on PC.
Access files from iCloud folder on iPhone.

[mikef]

IMazing app

Do you have a way to access the files once they are on the phone?

[fbc]

Create a shared folder on the PC and access that using the iPhone's native Files app, from there you can transfer files to and from the devices

[OutInTheShed]

Email them to yourself?

[Somebody]

MitchT said:

Log in to iCloud on PC.
Upload files to iCloud folder on PC.
Access files from iCloud folder on iPhone.

This. Install the iCloud app on the PC

[Ham_and_Jam]

As above there are quite a few ways to access shared online files.

However for a physical transfer medium, I’ve just purchased a dual drive USB stick that plugs into both USB C (iPhone) and USB A (laptop).

Transfer files onto it from the laptop and then open in Files when plugged into the iPhone.

https://shop.sandisk.com/en-gb/products/usb-flash-...

[Vasco]

Just use Dropbox ?

[cheesejunkie]

Yip, quite a few ways. iCloud is far and away the easiest in the Apple ecosystem. I can’t remember the last time I connected a phone to a PC.

But Dropbox etc would work too.

[droopsnoot]

OutInTheShed said:

Email them to yourself?

This is the way I ended up doing it - a separate gmail account just for the phone. Still annoying that I can drag and drop in one direction, but not in the other. And I seem to remember it was so fiddly trying to transfer files from the phone to the PC without a cable that I gave up and now plug it in. Mine's an old one, though, so maybe it's better now.

[AyBee]

Whatsapp and Whatsapp web?

[singlecoil]

Thanks for all the suggestions. These are music files, BTW, collected over a good many years.

I managed to get some onto the phone by using OneDrive, and found to my disappointment that there doesn't seem to be any way of using a music track as a ringtone, something I could easily do on my Android phone. Current thinking is to just use the iPhone as a video camera and to keep my Samsung as my phone.

[Ham_and_Jam]

singlecoil said:

Thanks for all the suggestions. These are music files, BTW, collected over a good many years.

I managed to get some onto the phone by using OneDrive, and found to my disappointment that there doesn't seem to be any way of using a music track as a ringtone, something I could easily do on my Android phone. Current thinking is to just use the iPhone as a video camera and to keep my Samsung as my phone.

As I said earlier. If you want a physical copy on your phone, use a double ended USB stick (see link earlier in the thread).

Drag all the music onto the USB (a) stick, plug the other end of the USB (c) into the charging port on your iPhone and repeat into a folder in Files.

Takes minutes to copy hundreds of files, and just as easy as Android.

[Somebody]

singlecoil said:

found to my disappointment that there doesn't seem to be any way of using a music track as a ringtone, something I could easily do on my Android phone.

Download GarageBand https://support.apple.com/en-us/120692

[dmsims]

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