Synchronizing Your Media
If you chose to let iTunes manage synchronizing your data automatically, welcome back. This section looks at how you get your media — your ringtones, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, video, iTunes U courses, books, and photos — from your computer to your iPhone.
Sharp-eyed readers may notice that we aren’t covering syncing iPhone apps in this chapter. Apps are so darn cool that we’ve given them an entire chapter, namely Chapter 15. In that chapter, you discover how to find, sync, rearrange, review, and delete apps, and much, much more.
Podcasts and videos (but not photos) from your computer are synced only one way: from your computer to your iPhone. If you delete a podcast or a video that got onto your iPhone via syncing, the podcast or video will not be deleted from your computer when you sync.
That said, if you buy or download any of the following items on your iPhone, the item will be copied back to your computer automatically when you sync:
Songs
Podcasts
Videos
iBooks, e-books, and audiobooks
Apps
Playlists that you create on your iPhone
And if you ...
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