This commodity shows you how to share files between your Mac and your iPhone and iPad using the new route in Catalina.

With the release of macOS Catalina, Apple said goodbye to iTunes and broke it up into separate Mac apps for Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV, pregnant the functions for managing a continued ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌ or iPod touch needed a new domicile.

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It's not immediately obvious, but Apple tree chose to integrate these device functions into the Finder, so now y'all can choose transfer files, manage iCloud and local backups, and restore or update your iOS device without even opening another awarding on your Mac.

How to Copy Files From Mac to iPhone and iPad

  1. Plug your ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, or ‌iPod touch‌ into your Mac using the supplied cable. If yous have a USB-C Mac, you may need an adapter.
  2. Open a Finder window by clicking the Finder icon in the Dock.
  3. Click your iOS device's proper name in the sidebar.
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  4. If this is the showtime time connecting your device to your Mac, click Trust in the Finder window.
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  5. Tap Trust on your device when prompted, then enter your passcode to ostend.
  6. Click the Files tab to see a list of apps that tin share files. If you don't run into a Files section, your device doesn't accept whatever apps that can share files.
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  7. Open another Finder window (Command-N) and select the files on your Mac that you want to copy to your ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, or ‌iPod touch‌. Merely select files that work with an app on your iOS device. (Check the app's user guide to see which ones work.)
  8. Drag the file(s) to the compatible app on your iOS device.

Finder volition automatically copy them across to your iOS device. Depending on the size of the file(south), you may have to wait a while for the transfer to consummate.

How to Copy Files From iPhone and iPad to Mac

  1. Plug your ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, or ‌iPod touch‌ into your Mac using the supplied cable.
  2. Open a Finder window by clicking the Finder icon in the Dock.
  3. Click your iOS device's name in the sidebar.
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  4. If this is the first time connecting your device to your Mac, click Trust in the Finder window.
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  5. Tap Trust on your device when prompted, so enter your passcode to confirm.
  6. Click the Files tab to see a list of apps that can share files. If you don't see a Files section, your device doesn't have whatsoever apps that can share files.
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  7. Click the triangle adjacent to an app to run across the files that you can share.
  8. Open another Finder window (Command-N) and navigate to the location on your Mac where you'd like to copy the files on your iOS device to.
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  9. Select the files on your iOS device that you want to copy, then drag the file(south) to the open up location on your Mac in the other Finder window.

Finder will automatically copy the files to your Mac. Depending on the size of the file(south), you may have to wait a while for the transfer to complete.

How to Delete files on your iPhone and iPad.

  1. Plug your ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, or ‌iPod touch‌ into your Mac using the supplied cablevision.
  2. Open a Finder window past clicking the Finder icon in the Dock.
  3. Click your iOS device's name in the sidebar.
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  4. Click the Files tab to see a listing of apps that incorporate files. If you don't see a Files department, your device doesn't have whatsoever apps that can share files.
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  5. Click the triangle next to an app to see the files it contains.
  6. Select the file that you want to delete, so correct-click (Ctrl-cick) it and select Delete.
  7. Click Delete to confirm.

There are often other ways to delete files from an app. See the app'south user guide to discover out more.

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