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 encountered this post also before because I was getting frustrated with the same situation.

I want to share the solution I found though, here it is

http://www.msshaunoftheday.com/2016/06/Finally-Found-The-Windows-Phone-App-For-M ac-I-Need.html

I took a video showing it works and posted the link in that post.

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.

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.

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.

Ok thanks for that. I'm still on 10.9.5 because I dare not update to ElCapitan or the one before (I'm on the one before that whatever it was called) because of reports of it trashing the photo library (yes I have a backup, but the hassle is not worth the apparent minor benefits of the new versions of OSX - I really don't care what it looks like). The Windows Phone app you kindly linked works fine, but I'm disappointed to see that it only handles media (photos, music etc) - I thought it was going to sync contacts as well and possibly text messages. Or even let me write texts on my macbook and use the phone to send them.

Anyone any ideas on how to sync contacts and text messages between a macbook and a nokia lumina with Win Mobile 8.1?

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for their feedback so far, but I'm still stuck. I'm having a nightmare transferring music files from my macbook to my windows phone (nokia lumia 502).

I've never had the windows phone app for mac and am unable to find it now.

It's unclear how you do the "change extension trick" using nokia photo transfer. If anyone can give greater detail on how to do this, that'd be great thanks.

Also, even if I could get this to work, I don't see how this would help me remove files which are currently on my phone's memory card. I have limited space on my phone's memory card. Really, I need to be able to connect the phone to my macbook in such a way that I can delete old music off the card and then transfer new music onto it from my macbook.

Unless I'm mistaken, One Drive is completely useless unless you're online at the time? I've got a very limited data package and live in the middle of nowhere, so this unfortunately isn't much good to me. Ideally, I'd be listening to music on my phone around 6 hours a day, so I really need an offline listening option.

On every old phone I've had, as soon as I connected it to my macbook by usb, when I went to Finder on my macbook, my phone would show up as a device and I could manage files on my phone's memory card easily.

I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this new windows phone so far. Everything's a struggle with it.

Windows and Apple's inability to work with each other is ********.

I'm certainly not going to buy a windows computer, because they're ****. Equally, I'm in not going to buy an iphone, because their batteries stop working in the cold (which is an issue, because I live in a ski resort!).

If anyone's got any other suggestions, I'd really appreciate them.

Thanks

Nick

Hi Guys,

I m planning to get lumia 950 soon & what to sync my stuff with my iMac, been mac users since a decade & can't go back to Windows Desktop,

anyways i saw the method of getting it to work on this thread, just wanted to know if this method of changing usb library files of the windows app will work on OSX 10.11.4 ?? Also will the Windows app then sync photos with photo app or iPhoto on OSX?

Thanks.

Hi, I found that the easiest way (have a Windows Lumia 950) was to buy a microSD card, go to Settings/System/Storage and set the card as default save location. I then transferred the data to and from the mac via the SD card...

Hope that this helps

I'm afraid that you have to manually remove the card and connect with a microSD adaptor or USB card reader. This is good enough for my requirements, as it's very easy to access the card on the 950, with others it may be more tedious. I haven't had any joy connecting via USB or bluetooth. The phone is recognised, but the mac has no permission to access data on the phone. I've had a quick look in the developer mode, but even there I don't see any possibility to change the permissions to allow access. As others mention, One drive is painfully slow, but it may be good enough if you need to transfer a few isolated files...

I just upgraded my AT&T Lumia 640 from Windows Phone 8.1 to 10. Everything is working very well. A pleasant surprise is the Windows Phone App for Mac is also working perfectly connecting to Windows Phone 10 OS on my Lumia 640. The app did notice that the phone's files were reformatted, and suggested to click ok to ensure the phone and the Mac would always now be in sync.

So good news for Lumia Windows Phone owners who are hesitating to upgrade to version 10. Have no fear, go ahead, and enjoy. No need to transfer files by taking out the SD card and reinstalling into the phone each time (how painful!).

Hi,

I found the following link with files which may help you with the updated files.

"http://irantorrents.com/?p=346483"

Also you can do a search on "http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdwindows-mdupdate/window s-phone-app-on-mac-running-os-x-el-capit…"

Hope that helps.