Hi Alan,
I can't speak for anything that goes back a while, I had my first iPod Touch in 2009, then my iPhone 4 in 2010 and 4S in 2011. The short of it is that unless you jailbreak you cannot transfer anything to your iPhone simply by connecting it to a PC and have it recognized as a mass storage device. One exception is photos, you can copy them off your iPhone or delete them on your iPhone that way. If you have pictures on your phone, it will show up in Windows (under Computer) and you can access your pictures. However, music, ringtones, text files/notes etc. have to be copied using iTunes or you can get stuff onto your device with apps like Dropbox, Skydrive, Phone Drive and about 3,000 other apps which all claim that they allow you to use your iPhone like a USB drive. Of course I am exaggerating, but there are a lot of apps like that, Tonido, File App Pro etc. The thing is, though, that it still really isn't like a USB drive because you can only view these files from said app and most of these apps then have built-in document readers/editors, music players, PDF viewers etc. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 9:53 AM To: VIPhone Email List Subject: Configuring iPhone 5 as External Device when Computer Connected I know I'm thinking back a few years ago when I had more sight and was using an iPod, but I seem to recall being able to set it so Windows recognized it as an external USB device for transferring files to it, etc. Is it possible to do this with the newer iPhones? I scoured the various settings in iTunes 11 and couldn't come up with it. Can someone provide information on whether this is possible and how to do it? Or maybe there is no longer a reason for doing this and I'll listen to arguments on that score too. Thanks in advance. Alan Lemly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
