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Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:46:09 +0100, wasbit wrote :


> I am going to reply to all here with thanks.
> 
> I use a Windows 8.1 Pro local account with no login. I don't have a 
> mobile phone.
> I get PCs, laptops & sometimes phones brought to me with either faults 
> or requests of 'how do I?', & I do what I can with no charge.
> 
> Windows doesn't allow file sharing (since Windows 8) without logging in.
> However files can be transferred from an iphone to Windows (local 
> account/no log in) via USB but not from Windows to the iphone.
>   Drag & drop doesn't work.
>   Copy/Move doesn't work
>   Send-to in the context menu shows but doesn't work
> 
> Photos on the iphone will open with Irfanview in Windows
> Files can be deleted from an iphone if they can be seen in Windows.
> 
> An MS account is required to download apps from the App Store.
> A credit card is required to set up an account to download apps to an 
> iphone & often the phone owner doesn't want to give me or Apple that 
> information.
> 
> As with most problems I get, the phone owner doesn't want to spend a lot 
> of time whilst I diagnose/sort problems.
> I really need the phone owner to either be in attendance or give me 
> their passwords etc.
> 
> I have not yet been asked to sort out an Android phone with a file 
> sharing problem however I do have an Android tablet but have never 
> needed to transfer files to or from Windows.
> 
> Most of the answers presume I own the hardware & can do what I like with 
> no time limits, but for me that's not the case.

Hi wasbit,

Thanks for that update and your specific use model, where I concur with
(almost) everything you said (I think you have a thinko on the MS account
where you actually meant an Apple Account - to install software on iOS).

I have tons of Apple devices, so I concur with the problem set you feel,
which is that there's no problem file sharing with Android, but with iOS, 
all you can easily do is copy from the iOS device over to the Windows PC.

But you can't go the other way (you can't easily copy to the iOS device).
Worse... much (much!) worse, you can't *install* apps on the iOS device.

You can't even copy installers (IPAs) from one iOS device to another like
you can easily do with Android (since Android always saves the installers).

And, as you've found out, SMB is a great answer except when it's not.

Effectively, for SMB you have to have an account on the PC with a password.
And even then, you have to deal with the crappy Windows "sharing" garbage.

When Paul suggested LocalSend, and when I tested it out, I was ecstatically
happy that LocalSend surmounted EVERY problem I'm listing above with iOS.

Since LocalSend works on all platforms, the only requirement is that your
customer is logged into the app store for iOS (since none of the other
platforms require a login account to the mothership to install LocalSend).

What's unique about iOS is it's the ONLY platform that requires that App
Store login (as even the Google Play Store doesn't require login accounts).

But if the customer is *already* logged into their iOS App Store account,
then you can install LocalSend on their device and then copy things over.

It's beautiful. The only other requirement is every device needs to be on
the same network. I'm not sure how that plays out in a corporate
environment, but on my home environment, as long as I could ping it on a
local address (e.g., 192.168.1.2), then LocalSend had no problem seeing it.

We all owe Paul thanks for finding LocalSend as a solution to the problem.
Finally, we tunnel out of iOS's subterranean ecosystem into the real world. 

Thanks for letting us know. Elijiah also has a great LocalSend use model
where he travels with two Android devices, one of which is a phone that
takes great photos and the other of which is, I think, a tablet which has
tons of storage. Each night he transfers the images taken during the day
from the phone with limited storage to the tablet with huge storage.

LocalSend allows device-to-device transfers which don't require the PC!
Paul saved us all, again!

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Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 09:19 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-04-07 10:43 +0100
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 10:29 +0000
      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 11:20 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-04-07 13:29 +0100
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 12:57 +0000
            Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-07 14:49 -0400
              Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-07 21:25 +0000
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Kash Patel <kash.patel@fbi.gov> - 2025-04-07 13:30 +0000
          Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-07 20:18 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com> - 2025-04-08 16:46 +0100
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-08 21:24 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-13 05:24 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-12 23:15 -0700
      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend david <this@is.invalid> - 2025-04-13 01:00 -0600
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 07:19 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-13 00:43 -0700
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      Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-15 17:21 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to send files between Windows & iOS over the LAN using LocalSend Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-15 10:34 -0700
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