OK, so what about photos? Well, the Photo Stream feature in iCloud will share a limited stream of recent photos you’ve snapped with all your iCloud-connected devices-meaning you could, say, upload pictures from your wedding album in iPhoto to Photo Stream, then go to your iPhone and save the uploaded images from Photo Stream to a new album on your handset. By the same token, if you bought “Toy Story” from iTunes directly on your iPhone, you’ll want to sync with iTunes to transfer a backup to your system. So if you bought, say, “Toy Story” from the iTunes Store and it’s on your Mac or PC, you’ll need to sync with iTunes to transfer it to your iPhone. If you’re not, you’re going to need iTunes to transfer any music you didn’t buy on iTunes from your computer’s hard drive to your iPhone.Īnd while you can re-download any songs or TV shows purchased from iTunes to your iPhone, you can’t re-download purchased movies-or at least, not yet. (More on Wi-Fi iTunes syncing in a moment.)īut wait-what about that new iTunes Match feature, which will let you store all your music in iCloud? Well, iTunes Match, which will scan your hard drive and “match” any songs it identifies with a high-quality version that you can stream from iCloud (or let you upload any tunes that can’t be matched) sounds like a great service, so long as you’re willing to pony up $25 a year. If you have a lot of MP3s that you didn’t buy from iTunes, you’ll need iTunes to sync them to your iPhone.Īll well and good, but what about songs and videos you didn’t buy from the iTunes Store? To put them on your iPhone, you’ll need to sync with the iTunes desktop software, either using the white USB cable that came in the iPhone box or over Wi-Fi.

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