Yes, But how?
Is a phrase you hear a lot.
The question is simple but the answer needs a little more than a single word reply.
In this article you’ll find several ways you can connect your iPhone to your Mac. When you don’t want to use a cable to do it.
Can I Connect My iPhone To My Mac Without A Cable?
Yes, you can and there are several ways to.
Using WIFI you can connect your iPhone to your Mac and AirDrop photos, contacts and notes from your phone. Use Bluetooth when WIFI isn’t available and transfer files to your Mac.
Or use your iPhone as a personal hotspot for your Mac and share your cellular data. Or you can set up your iPhone with Finder or iTunes. And backup and sync your iPhone to your Mac.
Read on for more information.
What Macs Can You Connect Your iPhone Without A Cable To?
All modern Macs have this ability. It doesn’t matter if you’ve a iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro.
But, when it comes to setting up your iPhone to backup or sync without a cable. Then the MacOS your Mac runs matters.
For Macs running MacOS Mojave or earlier you’d use iTunes to set it up.
Apple retired the iTunes app in MacOS Catalina. And Macs running later MacOS’s use Finder. To backup and sync to a Mac.
Setting Up Your iPhone To Backup Without A Cable
You can connect your iPhone to your Mac to backup or wireless sync. But you will need a USB cable to set it all up.
And that’s a pain if you’ve damaged your USB port in some way.
Assuming your Mac is fine and you’ve a USB cable. You connect your iPhone to your Mac just as you would to backup or sync to your Mac.
Set Up In Finder
Inside the General heading in the button bar. You scroll down to the device’s Options heading. And check mark the box. ‘Show this iPhone when on Wi-Fi’. And click Apply.
Take a look at this document on the site. Connect iPhone To Mac Without USB.
For more detail.
Set Up In ITunes
In earlier MacOS releases you use iTunes.
Open the iTunes app. Connect your iPhone to your Mac. Click on your device. And just like under the Finder app. Scroll down to the device’s Option heading. And check mark the box ‘Show this iPhone when on Wi-Fi’. Click Apply.
So, you can connect your iPhone to your Mac and backup and wireless sync without a cable. It’s worth knowing that a WIFI device backup or sync is slower than over USB.
But when you want to free yourself from needing a USB cable for your Apple devices. That’s the tradeoff.
And you can’t software update your iPhone this way.
Do you have another iOS device?
Great. It works for your Apple iPad, iPad mini, and iPod Touch. Your Apple watch backs up to your iPhone when close by, not to your Mac.
You Can Connect Your iPhone To Mac On WIFI And AirDrop
To do this you’ll need both your iPhone and your Mac connected to the same WIFI. And signed into the same Apple id. And you don’t need a cable to set this up or to use.
You can’t use AirDrop to backup or sync your iPhone. So that is a downside.
But AirDrop does allow you to transfer files to your Mac. You can transfer anything on your iPhone with a share icon. Or A share option on your iPhone screen. And that includes your iPhone photos, Notes, music you download to your iPhone, all types of files.
Again, check out the article on Connecting iPhone To Mac Without USB.
AirDrop also works for your Apple iPad all flavors, and iPod Touch.
You Can Connect Your iPhone To Mac No WIFI Or A Cable On Bluetooth
Turn on Bluetooth to share files with your Mac. And you won’t need a working WIFI or a USB cable.
You will need your Mac and iPhone close by each other. Within 33 feet. And you use the AirDrop option to send your info. Yeah, strange but you do.
You can Bluetooth over to your Mac photos, notes, contact info. Any file with a share option on your iPhone screen.
And if your iPhone’s phone plan has a data option. Then you can set up your iPhone as a personal hotspot. To share your phone’s cellular Internet. And if you’ve an iPad with the cellular option. And data on your plan. You can do the same.
Want to find out more about connecting your iPhone to your Mac on Bluetooth. Click the text to go to an article all about it.
Can You Connect Your iPhone Without A Cable and Airplay Mirror To Mac?
So, you don’t want to use a HDMI cable, HDMI port or HDMI adaptor. But you do want to Airplay and mirror your iPhone screen to your Mac.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to do this using the standard software from Apple. There are various third party software solutions that’ll allow you to. And it’s worth checking the Apple App store for them.
In Closing
We hope you enjoyed our article about the ways of having your iPhone connected to your Mac all without a cable.
With this knowledge, you can easily and quickly transfer files. And other info from your iPhone to your Mac.
What are you waiting for? Take a look at our other iPhone focused articles on the site.
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