iPhone For Dummies, 2022nd Edition

Chapter 3

Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone

IN THIS CHAPTER

Syncing iPhone with the iTunes or Music app

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.

A few years ago Bob was so fed up with the bloated mess iTunes had become that he wrote a protest song —iTunes Must Die (download it for free at www.workingsmarterformacusers.com/s/iTunes-Must-Die.zip). It must have worked because Apple killed iTunes soon thereafter (at least in macOS Catalina and later, though the Windows version of iTunes soldiers on). In macOS Catalina (and later), you manage music with the Music app, podcasts with the Podcasts app, TV shows and movies with the TV app, and syncing with Finder. (If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier or a Windows PC, you’ll still use that bloated beast called iTunes to manage your media and syncing.)

The bottom line is that it’s easy to synchronize your contacts, appointments, reminders, and events so they’re kept ...