Re: How to copy a photo from Windows to iOS without needing Internet servers

On Apr 10, 2025 at 4:28:26 PM EDT, "Ivano Rossi" <Ivano.Rossi@nospam.tin.it>
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:39:38 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
 

On Apr 9, 2025 at 1:11:30 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

On 2025-04-05 22:30, Marion wrote:

Apple products don't work in the real world so something as trivial as
copying a photo from Windows to iOS is almost impossible without the net.

Connect to your Windows machine using the Files app on iOS.
 
Done.

 
I said the same thing. Multiple times. But the trolls are not interested in
the easy, native, SECURE solution. They insist on using the most difficult,
obscure, 22 step method.
 
Because they have to maintain the lie that "iOS does not do something as
trivial as copying a photo from Windows to iOS".
 
And notice that ALL of the "problems" with this method are on the Windows
side. SMB networking is standard.  That is how Windows talks to Windows, Linux
and Unix.  Of COURSE it can be done on iOS because iOS is Unix.

 
It does no matter you say you did it right on macos when more than a few
others said it doesn't work for them on Windows.

This is so easy, I can't believe people are STILL claiming "it can't be done".
  If it "does not work" then clearly some people are doing something wrong.

You can copy any file you want, back and forth between iOS/iPadOS/MacOS and
Windows. I have done this a thousand times.

Stop arguing and just do it. Yes, you have to give read/write permission on
the Windows shared folder/drive/whatever, if you want to copy/edit files TO
Windows. You have to do the same thing if you are sharing Windows to Windows.
 

That's how networking works. You control the level of access you want to
grant, on the server.  People connecting then have those access rights.  The
default is Read Only, which is fine if all you want to do is grab files FROM
Windows.

That's called "security". 

Me, I just grant full access to the entire C drive.  And my data drives D, E
and F. Because no one else is doing this in my house but me.  You could just
share your Users folder in Windows.  That gives you access to all of YOUR
current data - music, pictures, documents, downloads etc.  But I also have
decades of stuff on the data drives that I like to have access to from
whatever device I am using at the moment.

AGAIN, this is simple to do. You can copy any file - or entire folders - back
and forth.  Yes, it is all done on the iPhone/iPad.  That's how client/server
works. Network servers don't push things to you. You have to fetch them using
the client device.

If you connect to MacOS from Windows, then everything is done on Windows. 
Client/server.