How to sync movie, video, music to iPhone 6(Plus) from PC/Mac

Just got a brand-new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, right? Before you get to playing with your new device, you’ll probably want to get to know it and set it up. In this article we focus on the tips and tricks for transferring movie, video, music to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus.

Method A. Sync movies to iPhone 6 (Plus) via iTunes

Step 1: Plug iPhone 6 (Plus) into computer via the USB cable…
Step 2: Click “File > Add Files to Library” at the upper left corner of the window…
Step 4: Click on Movies in iTunes Library, right click and Paste the movies.
Step 5: Click on your iPhone name in iTunes, choose Video tab and click on Sync Movies, choose the movies you want to sync to your iPhone 6 (Plus). Then click Sync.

Note: For those who also wanna sync music to iPhone 6. Do as below: Highlight your iPhone in the sidebar of iTunes, then select the Summary page on the right side of iTunes. Select the option to “Manually manage music and videos.” Re-sync. It works.

Method B. Stream videos/movies to iPhone 6 (Plus) via Air Playit

Air Playit is a handy free music videos streaming app focusing on streaming various videos, movies and music files to iPhone iPad, iPod as well as Android devices via WiFi and 3G/4G network. It works well for both Windows and Mac computers, which means that users can stream music and videos from PC/Mac to iPhone 6 (Plus).

1. Open Air Playit server and click Shared Folders tag. Click “Add Folder” button for importing movie or video folders on your PC/Mac. Also, you can set permissions to allow others to access the shared folder.

2.  Open Air Playit app on iPhone 6/6 Plus to connect server. Because of Bonjour service, the server on your PC/Mac will be automatically detected. If you want to connect server on other computer, please specify IP address.

3. Select server and get shared folder. Open this folder and choose your favorite video and movie to play.

Method C. Transfer media files to iPhone 6 (Plus) from computer via iCloud

If you have other iOS devices running iOS 8 and have iCloud backups, you can log in iCloud on your new iPhone 6 (Plus) (go to Setting -> iCloud -> Enter your Apple ID info -> then you will get a iCloud terms doc, agree it) and restore the iCloud backup on the device.

Now you can successfully enjoy viewing media files transferred from computer on your iPhone 6 (Plus)!

Editor’s Note:

As you know, all the iOS devices can only support MP4, MOV, M4V format. If your video files on your computer aren’t supported by iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, you need to convert various music and videos to iPhone 6 (Plus) friendly formats.

Here you can go to download and install the best iPhone 6 Video Converter(compatible with Windows and Mac) on your computer. This video converter is the one I’m using now that helps me convert any HD video like MKV, MTS, M2TS, MPG, VOB, TiVo, FLV, AVI, WMV, etc to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus at ultra fast speed with high output quality. Plus, this video converter allows you to edit your video files like cropping, trimming, adding 3D effect, adding image/video/text watermark, etc as you need. Have a good experience on your iPhone 6.

How to Open and Play WMV on iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus

I received a .wmv movie clip in an e-mail. I would like to put it onto my iPhone 6 Plus(Just got for days). Is there any way to do this? When I try dragging the .wmv into iTunes, it either does nothing or says it is a format that will not work. Searching through the Apple forum, I got some clues from an old thread about transferring WMV files to iPhone. As the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have come to us, when you’re planning to put WMV to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus, I’m sure you will get some decent hints from this article.

Though the iPhone does not natively support opening WMV files, you can overcome this limitation with the installation of third-party application- Brorsoft Video Converter, you can convert WMV to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus friendly MP4, MOV format without any quality loss.

Apart from converting WMV videos to iPhone iPhone 6/iPhone 6 supported format, it can also convert any other popular video format like AVI, 3GP, MKV, VOB, MPEG, etc. to iPhone compatible format. This video converter also offers optimized presets for various mobile devices like iPod, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, PS3, Xbox, Kindle Fire HD and more. With a built-in video editor, you can change the video resolution, artistic visual effects and more to fit better for playing the WMV videos on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus. Note that this WMV to iPhone 6 converter runs on Windows-based computer (Windows 8 included). If you are Mac users and want to copy WMV to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus on Mac, try iPhone 6 WMV converter for Mac, which is fully compatible with Mac OS X (Mavericks and Yosemite).

Encode and Transfer .wmv file to iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus

1. Add the videos Install and run iPhone 6 video converter. Click Add button to load WMV files from hard drive for converting. Or you can directly drag and drop the video files to the main window of this program. To merge several videos to one file, just tick “Merge into one file”.

2. Set iPhone supported format Click Format bar, you can directly select “iPhone” > “iPhone 5S/5C H.264 HD 720P(*.mp4)”. The preset could fit on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus perfectly.

Tip: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click “Settings” icon to and enter “Profile Settings” panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels. Get the best video/audio settings for iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus.

3. Start the conversion When you finish all settings, simply click the big Convert button on the bottom of the main window to start converting WMV for iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus.

After finishing converting WMV to iPhone 6, sync them to your iPhone with iTunes, you can then enjoy WMV videos on your iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus smoothly.