Where is the Windows Phone App for Mac and how do I update it?

Let me just be sure I understand this. Apple, by not making the windows phone app available for download on the U.S. store, is preventing anyone in the U.S. who owns a windows phone (I got one b/c it was the cheapest smartphone available) from transferring music files or pictures or whatever from their Mac to their windows phone. If this is right, that is so lame. Ultra lame.

If I'm wrong, I would greatly appreciate someone please explaining how I transfer music from my MacBook Air to my Windows phone.

I wandered for this for quite a while, here's what i think is the best option:-

1. Install any linux on virtualbox.

2. install ntfs-3g package in linux.

3. share a folder between ur mac and linux.

Any free linux (centos/ fedora/ubuntu) picks up any WP/Lumia EASILY when connected !!!

The shared folder can be used to move stuff back n forth (MAC<-->LINUX<--->WP)

Param

Please post on this thread regarding this issue.

The more people address this issue the better:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdwindows-mdupdate/window s-phone-app-on-mac-running-os-x-el-capitan/6353720c-fc67-40b2-bc99-44b8154551ea

Yes, i have this same problem, It looks like apple is not working with microsoft anymore. I uninstalled me windows app because it could not communicate with my phone anymore and when I tried to re-install the windows app again from mac app store it said it is not available.

There is a nice and quite simple solution - if you have the windows phone app already. Basically the usb lib is exchaned and the app is working again - yeah!

https://tubeapps.net/wp8/

Have Phun!

DStreetBeach wrote:

Let me just be sure I understand this. Apple, by not making the windows phone app available for download on the U.S. store, is preventing anyone in the U.S. who owns a windows phone (I got one b/c it was the cheapest smartphone available) from transferring music files or pictures or whatever from their Mac to their windows phone. If this is right, that is so lame. Ultra lame.

If I'm wrong, I would greatly appreciate someone please explaining how I transfer music from my MacBook Air to my Windows phone.

Microsoft have to make the app and submit it to Apple, just as they did for previous versions of OS X.

So ask Microsoft how long to will take for them to catch up with reality.

Since the Windows Phone app is no longer available for download via iTunes App Store, does anyone have a link to the most recent Windows Phone mac app installer?

I picked up a Lumia and don't have a good way to transfer my videos and music to the phone. I can use Microsoft's OneDrive but that's super slow. I can also use Nokia's Photo Transfer app but it doesn't allow me to transfer anything other than photos and videos to the phone's camera roll.

I'm on a Mac Pro running 10.10.5 and don't have a copy of Windows so I can't use bootcamp or an emulator.

For now use Nokia Photo Transfer (Google it), for transferring video just change its extension to jpg and moved to camera roll and import to Mac (do the reverse for Mac to Lumia copy), for multiple files you can use archive on Mac and 8Zip Lite on Lumia.

you are right...

Thanks Microsoft for leaving windows phone owners outside mac support....

anyway someone can change phone but not mac....

Once you go mac you never go back....

The only way for transferring files between windows phone and mac is using one drive at both devices

Hi all. I found Nokia Photo Transfer for Mac after much searching around the web.

Don't know if it works with El Capitan though.

Yeah it works for Photos. For other files you can use 'extension changing' trick. I'm using Nokia Photo Transfer 1.2.31 on El Capitan to import / export all kind of files from / to Lumia 535.

Great! Thank you!

This worked for me a 100%!

Here's a Mediafire link to Windows Phone 3.1.1 (Windows Phone.zip) and the 2 required .dylibs files (wp8.zip). Following the previously mentioned instructions here, this works great for El Capitan (10.11.2). I am unsure of the legalities regarding sharing this, as it is currently unsupported by Microsoft - somebody please let me know if sharing it is illegal.

Nope, just update the Windows Phone libraries as somebody else explained above. It works fine in El Capitan.