This USB Stick Can Backup Your Phone Pics
There are two popular methods to get large videos off your iPhone.
The most common problem is having a large video on your iPhone which you need on your computer. Email programs usually limit a file size at 20MBs, so if the file is larger, what can you do?
There are two popular options which come to mind: Use QuickTime or Use a USB flash drive.
Option #1
Use QuickTime. Macs already have QuickTime built into the OS, but Windows users must install it. Before deciding this as your best route to get large videos off your iPhone here is a list of things to consider:
- You must backup your iPhone on QuickTime before you access the video
- You need your computer (an authoized computer) to perform the backup
- Windows user smust download and install QT
- QuickTime is an invasive program which most Windows users will not like
- Not a “portable” way to get the videos off your iPhone
- However, this is a free solution!
Option #2
Use a flash drive.
Yes, you need to buy a specific flash drive, but after this investment it’s infinitely easier to get videos off your iPhone. Some advantages worth considering:
- Get large videos off your phone without a PC
- Share the videos immediately to another user’s PC
- External storage device for backups of those videos
Point number one is really the value in all this {wink}.
Yes, you need to make a purchase of a product so you won’t be able to make the transfer ‘right now’ but will be able to once you have the USB device.
Specific USB drives have software which work with the iOS allowing the download of files from the phone to the drive. The one tested is the SanDisk iXpand flash drive at 128GB capacity and will cost about $40ish dollars.
The process is very straight forward.
- Download the iXpand app from the Apple app store
- Connect the flash drive to your iPhone
- Select what file you want to transfer, that’s it
