iPhone New to iOS, from android--dragging files to iphone from mac/pc?

[Pineapples23]

I was wondering if I could simply plug in my iphone to my mac/pc, and just drag and drop files onto my iphone? I found I could do limited things when plugged into itunes on my mac.

Can I just drag and drop files onto the phone's hard drive like I can with android?

 

[gixxerfool]

No. You can use a multitude of cloud based options including iCloud Drive, google drive, and Dropbox. There are plenty of other option as well.

 

[viperGTS]

You can download free apps that let you hold files and you can use iTunes to drag files into those apps. Documents by Readdle is a really good app for this, and it's a very powerful app on its own. I highly recommend it.

What files did you plan on storing on your phone?

 

[rigormortis]

vlc allows you to drag and drop video and audio files to it's built in web server

the newest vlc doesn't support ac3 / a52, I'm bummed about it. all my windows tv stuff is a52

i actually air dropped a movie to my iPhone from my mac and it was put in photos