One of the chief annoyances of Apple’s closed ecosystem is the limited ability to move files to and from your device using iTunes. Utilities that open up file management have been available for ages, but generally cost money, so stingy people like me just make do with iTunes. To commemorate the iPhone 10 year anniversary, MacX is offering OSAlert readers a free license to their MediaTrans tool (in exchange for your email address). It’s good for moving files of various types, backup, and removing media DRM. If any OSAlert readers can recommend other options for working around Apple’s restrictions and managing files on their iOS devices, I’d love to read about them in the comments.
Normally, I just use ifuse with http://www.libimobiledevice.org/, and rsync to backup photos/videos.
Edited 2017-07-12 17:09 UTC
lol at buying apple devices
Stop acting like a 13 year old.
Edited 2017-07-13 12:23 UTC
Can we have a new icon for stories that are adverts or “offers”? Its nice to be able to distinguish them quickly from news
Yes, I should probably do that.
FYI, this wasn’t an advert, as we weren’t paid to run it. When people offer to give free stuff away to readers we sometimes pass those deals along.
It appears to be only for the MacOS. I was hoping it would be available for Windows. I really hate having iTunes on Windows as it seems to slow the entire system down. When I used to have a Mac, I didn’t mind iTunes there.