Your Mac can now receive and send SMS and MMS text messages through your iPhone when you set up text message forwarding. SMS messages are green. IMessage messages are blue. To receive and send SMS and MMS messages on your Mac, your iPhone must have iOS 8.1 or later. If you have an iPhone, the text messages that you send and receive on your iPhone can appear on your Mac, iPad, and iPod touch as well. You can then continue the conversation from whichever device is closest to you. In this tutorial, we have told you how to sync text messages between iPhone and Mac, and if you prefer to send and receive messages on Mac, you can find the guides above as well, including iMessages and traditional text messages.
Before you use iTunes to sync content to your iOS device, consider using iCloud, Apple Music, or similar services to keep content from your Mac or PC in the cloud. This way, you can access your music, photos, and more on your iOS devices when you aren't near your computer. Learn more about using Apple Music or iCloud Photos instead of iTunes.
If you use iCloud or other services like Apple Music to keep your content up to date across all of your devices, syncing through iTunes might be turned off.
What you can sync with iTunes
- Albums, songs, playlists, movies, TV shows, podcasts, books, and audiobooks.
- Photos and videos.
- Contacts and calendars.
- Device backups that you made using iTunes.
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iTunes features might vary by country or region.
Sync or remove content using iTunes
- Open iTunes and connect your device to your computer with a USB cable.
- Click the device icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window. Learn what to do if you don't see the icon.
- From the list under Settings on the left side of the iTunes window, click the type of content that you want to sync or remove.1 To turn syncing on for a content type, select the checkbox next to Sync.
- Select the checkbox next to each item that you want to sync.
- Click the Apply button in the lower-right corner of the screen. If syncing doesn't start automatically, click the Sync button.
1. You can only sync your iOS device with one iTunes library at a time. If you see a message that your iOS device is synced with another iTunes library, your iOS device was previously connected to another computer. If you click 'Erase and Sync' in that message, all content of the selected type on your iOS device will be erased and replaced with content from this computer.
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Sync your content using Wi-Fi
After you set up syncing with iTunes using USB, you can set up iTunes to sync to your device with Wi-Fi instead of USB. Here's how:
- Connect your iOS device to your computer with a USB cable, then open iTunes and select your device.
- Click Summary on the left side of the iTunes window.
- Select 'Sync with this [device] over Wi-Fi.'
- Click Apply.
When the computer and the iOS device are on the same Wi-Fi network, the iOS device appears in iTunes. The iOS device syncs automatically whenever it's plugged in to power and iTunes is open on the computer.
Get help
- Learn what to do if you see an error when you try to sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes.
- Learn how to redownload items that you purchased on another device.
- Learn how to import photos and videos to your computer.
I'm getting a message 'your inbox is getting full, please delete some messages' for my SMS. I get it that the text messages are not shared within iphone capacity for photos & songs... coz I only have a few songs in my iPhone, still have 6GB or so free space. Can I sync my text messages to PC first? I did that with Nokia, SonyEricsson, even chinese brand phones before. This american phone better be able to sync its text messages!! Otherwise I just found my first disappointment with iPhone.
PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
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