Chapter 3
Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone
IN THIS CHAPTER
Syncing iPhone with iTunes
Syncing contacts and calendars
Syncing everything else
After you pass basic training (in Chapter 2), the next thing you’re likely to want is to get some or all of the following into your iPhone: contacts, appointments, events, bookmarks, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, photos, and documents.
iTunes 12.7 and later no longer allow you to buy or manage your iOS apps, ringtones, eBooks, and iTunes U courses. The exception is that eBooks (formerly iBooks) can be purchased and managed on a Mac (but not a PC).
If you need additional details on working with ringtones or apps, or anything else that’s changed since iTunes 12.7, Apple has kindly posted an article entitled, “Changes in the new iTunes: Learn about changes to Apps, iTunes U, Internet Radio, and more” at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208075.
The article has nearly a dozen links to other articles, which gives you and idea of how many words it would have taken us to explain all the things you used to be able to do with iTunes.
The good news is that iTunes can still manage syncing of almost everything but apps and ringtones, ...
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