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Argh! I just went through this with a friend's iPhone when he asked spur of the moment to have a video on his iPhone displayed on some monitors for a presentat

Argh! I just went through this with a friend's iPhone when he asked spur of the moment to have a video on his iPhone displayed on some monitors for a presentation. The monitors are driven by a Win10 computer. My first thought was to transfer the file from the iPhone with Bluetooth to the computer, but apparently an iPhone can't be paired in that manner. So lame. The video was too big to email, so I used send.firefox.com and uploaded the video to it, and then downloaded the video to the computer. Thanks to the iPhone's protective wall that little stunt cost my friend 200MB of cellular data. The computer didn't have iTunes, and there was no Lightning cable available so direct hardwired transfer wasn't an option either.

Retric 8y ago
Not having a cable is hardly the same issue, iPhones let you easily share images and videos but not all files.
- voidmain0001 8y ago
  Beyond AirDrop which only works between like devices, how else can files on an iPhone be transferred to another device without iTunes, and without using a 3rd party? I'm not being adversarial, I really want to know.
  - mercutio2 8y ago
    I’m a little confused, you don’t want to use 3rd party apps (like a Microsoft app to interact with nearby MS stuff) AND you don’t want to use Apple 1st party apps? It sounds like the only thing that would’ve satisfied you would’ve been for iOS to natively understand whatever the Microsoft system is for broadcasting videos? I agree it would be delightful if Apple and Microsoft could agree on a “I’m a short term drop-point” “send to any nearby open drop-point” API, but the absence of this doesn’t seem likely to be either Microsoft’s or Apple’s fault. The Apple way to do this would’ve been to send an iCloud email. Apple Mail would’ve uploaded the file to a server, and a short-lived link would’ve been created, to avoid SMTP size limits. Pretty much exactly what you ended up doing but manually via Firefox Send.
    - kalleboo 8y ago
      > The Apple way to do this would’ve been to send an iCloud email Since iOS 12 they also have a "copy iCloud link" share option that gives you a Dropbox-style file download page.
    - voidmain0001 8y ago
      I don't understand your confusion. What I would like to see is the iPhone to support the use of its native Bluetooth radio to connect to another device with a Bluetooth radio and implement the native Bluetooth file transfer protocol. Why would I want to use a 3rd party app/program which incurs a data charge to download, and possibly an account setup which means information leakage.

Retric 8y ago

Not having a cable is hardly the same issue, iPhones let you easily share images and videos but not all files.

voidmain0001 8y ago
Beyond AirDrop which only works between like devices, how else can files on an iPhone be transferred to another device without iTunes, and without using a 3rd party? I'm not being adversarial, I really want to know.
- mercutio2 8y ago
  I’m a little confused, you don’t want to use 3rd party apps (like a Microsoft app to interact with nearby MS stuff) AND you don’t want to use Apple 1st party apps? It sounds like the only thing that would’ve satisfied you would’ve been for iOS to natively understand whatever the Microsoft system is for broadcasting videos? I agree it would be delightful if Apple and Microsoft could agree on a “I’m a short term drop-point” “send to any nearby open drop-point” API, but the absence of this doesn’t seem likely to be either Microsoft’s or Apple’s fault. The Apple way to do this would’ve been to send an iCloud email. Apple Mail would’ve uploaded the file to a server, and a short-lived link would’ve been created, to avoid SMTP size limits. Pretty much exactly what you ended up doing but manually via Firefox Send.
  - kalleboo 8y ago
    > The Apple way to do this would’ve been to send an iCloud email Since iOS 12 they also have a "copy iCloud link" share option that gives you a Dropbox-style file download page.
  - voidmain0001 8y ago
    I don't understand your confusion. What I would like to see is the iPhone to support the use of its native Bluetooth radio to connect to another device with a Bluetooth radio and implement the native Bluetooth file transfer protocol. Why would I want to use a 3rd party app/program which incurs a data charge to download, and possibly an account setup which means information leakage.