Use iTunes to share files between your computer and your iOS or iPadOS device

You can copy files between your calculator and apps on your iOS or iPadOS device using File Sharing.

Before you begin

If you're using macOS Catalina or later, apply the Finder to share files between your computer and your iOS or iPadOS device.

Instead of File Sharing, consider using iCloud Drive, Handoff, or AirDrop to proceed your documents upwards to date across all of your devices.

iCloud Bulldoze lets you deeply access all of your documents from your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear upon, Mac, or PC. No thing which device you're using, you lot'll always take the nigh upward to date documents when and where you need them.

With Handoff, you tin start a certificate, email, or bulletin on one device and pick up where y'all left off from another device. Handoff works with Apple apps such as Post, Safari, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Some third-party apps are besides compatible.

AirDrop helps you share photos, videos, websites, locations, and more with other nearby Apple tree devices.

See which of your iOS and iPadOS apps tin can share files with your computer

Copy files from your reckoner to your iOS or iPadOS app

  1. In iTunes, select the app from the listing in the File Sharing department.
  2. Drag and drib files from a binder or window onto the Documents list to copy them to your device.
    You can also click Add in the Documents list in iTunes, discover the file or files you want to copy from your calculator, and so click Add. iTunes copies these files to the app on your device. Choose only files that will work with the app. Cheque the app's user guide to learn which kinds of files will piece of work.
    A Keynote presentation being dragged and dropped into the Keynote Documents list.

Re-create files from an iOS or iPadOS app to your figurer

  1. In iTunes, select the app from the list in the File Sharing section.
  2. Elevate and driblet files from the Documents listing to a binder or window on your computer to copy them to your computer.
    You can likewise select the file or files that yous desire to copy to your computer from the Documents list and click "Relieve" then discover the folder on your computer to which you desire to copy the files and click Relieve.
    A file being dragged and dropped into the Keynote Documents list.

Open shared files

On your iOS device, you can open the files from your computer with the app that you lot chose for File Sharing.

Y'all tin can't access these files from other apps or locations on your device. You lot tin run across the list of files in the File Sharing section of iTunes when your device is connected to your computer.

Dorsum upwardly shared files

When iCloud (or iTunes) backs up your device, it backs up your shared files as well.

If y'all delete an app with shared files from your iOS device, you too delete those shared files from your device and your iCloud or iTunes fill-in. To avert losing shared files, copy the files to your figurer earlier deleting the app from your iOS device.

Delete a shared file from your iOS device

To delete a file you copied to an iOS or iPadOS app using File Sharing, follow these steps:

  1. Open iTunes on your Mac or PC.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on to your computer using the USB cable that came with your device.
  3. Select your device in iTunes. Get help if you tin can't detect it.
  4. Select the app from the list in the File Sharing section.
  5. Select the file that you lot want to delete in the Documents list, then printing the Delete key on your keyboard.
  6. When iTunes asks you to ostend, click Delete.

There might exist other ways to delete files from an app. Read your app's user guide to find out more.

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