How To Use WiFi To Sync Your iPhone or Ipad

Gone are the days when you needed a cable to sync music or data to your Apple device. Nowadays iOS can do this wirelessly and without an extra effort. Grounding your iPhone is still the best way to do this, no to speak about how it also charges your phone in the meantime. But if you have a shared WiFi connection, you can rest on the sofa while the device updates your music or video files. If you travel a lot and WiFi availability represents a problem, you should not forget to pack you cable though.

Now let’s get started and teach you how to Sync your iOs device using a standard WiFi connection.

To do this you have to go to the Settings menu on you iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Go down to General and from the third set of options you’ll be notified that you must be on the same WiFi connection as the computer you are trying to sync from. There will also be a short info of your last sync date and about the content you last synced.

Start by tapping the Sync Now button to begin your sync and there will be an animated icon proving this to the user. You can cancel the syncing process at any time by tapping the Cancel Sync button. There are four steps to each sync and the screen will let you know on which one it’s currently working.

Syncing through WiFi should be used for smaller files and the sync using an USB cable should be used for when you have to transfer large amounts of music files and videos.

You don’t want to stare at the same screen while you iPhone copies hundreds of MP3 files through a WiFi connection. But if you have to have those last pictures you stored on your computer or we’re talking about an album or two, then using WiFi can save you time. To speak nothing of when you can’t locate your USB cable or someone else is using your computer.