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Take Control of Your iPhone, 2nd Edition
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Take Control of Your iPhone, 2nd Edition

by Ted Landau
April 2009
Beginner
183 pages
4h 44m
English
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Chapter 8. Go Under the Hood

Out of the box, the iPhone remains tightly closed—the only way to directly view, modify or otherwise interact with your iPhone content from your Mac is via the restricted access of syncing in iTunes.

What can't you do? You can't:

  • Mount the iPhone as an external drive on your Mac, as you can even with an iPod.

  • Directly copy files to or from the iPhone.

  • Even though syncing backs up the iPhone's notes, text messages, and similar data, you can't view these data on your Mac.

  • Peer into the contents of iPhone Software Update files (unlike Mac OS X update files, they are encrypted).

  • Most importantly, Apple blocks you from even peeking at the installed OS X iPhone software (that's Apple's name for the iPhone version of Mac OS X)—from ...

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