Moving a picture between devices
07/06/26 Filed in: iCloud Drive
Hi - This new mac is giving me headaches in the way its original “set up” is changing my options. For example I have an image that I want to share on my iphone, but I googled what the problem is and it’s saying things like disable firewall; allow access to everyone; - it just doesn’t feel safe - are you able to shed light on this? Should I book a zoom call? I’ve been fiddling and toggling and may not remember what I have changed access to - so I’m a little concerned about new privacy settings etc. which of course I want to protect.
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A firewall would not be relevant to the task of sharing a picture from one device to another. There are many methods to do so. Many! Airdrop, moving the file to Files which would show up in iCloud Drive, using a third party cloud service like dropbox, texting, emailing the file, using image capture to pull a pic from a phone, simply placing it into Apple’s photos application and letting it sync. Keep in mind, airdrop only works well wish small file sizes. I know that may be your preferred, but I would lean toward just dropping a copy of it into the iCloud drive folder and it would then show up in the File app on your phone.
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A firewall would not be relevant to the task of sharing a picture from one device to another. There are many methods to do so. Many! Airdrop, moving the file to Files which would show up in iCloud Drive, using a third party cloud service like dropbox, texting, emailing the file, using image capture to pull a pic from a phone, simply placing it into Apple’s photos application and letting it sync. Keep in mind, airdrop only works well wish small file sizes. I know that may be your preferred, but I would lean toward just dropping a copy of it into the iCloud drive folder and it would then show up in the File app on your phone.
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