How do I open iPhone in OSX finder?

How do I plug iPhone into Macbook and see iPhone as a device? How do I backup stuff without using sync or iTunes? I want to grab one movie off my phone and put it on my desktop... I want to copy three songs to my documents folder... etc...

Posted on Jul 13, 2014 7:23 AM

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Jul 13, 2014 7:27 AM in response to amcgov

amcgov wrote:

How do I plug iPhone into Macbook and see iPhone as a device? How do I backup stuff without using sync or iTunes?

You don't.

I want to grab one movie off my phone and put it on my desktop...

Use the Image Capture application.

I want to copy three songs to my documents folder..

Just copy them from iTunes to wherever....

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