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In 2019, iTunes will no longer exist. If you using iTunes today to transfer movies from your Windows computer to your iPad, this means that you will have to come up with an alternative method to move those files over to your iOS device.
Option 1: Sharing via Wi-Fi
Since the launch of VLC for Mobile on the App Store, VLC has always had a very cool trick hidden away to move files towards the VLC program. What this function does is make your iOS device available on your local network via Wi-Fi for other devices (such as, in this case, your Windows computer). Via your Windows laptop, you can then ‘visit’ VLC on your iPad and copy-paste video files.
Make sure your iOS device and your Windows computer are on the same Wi-Fi network, otherwise this method won’t work.
Here are the steps:
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- Open VLC on your iPad (works on iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV as well)
- In the top left corner, tap on the VLC icon
- From the sidebar menu, enable Wifi Upload
- You will be presented with an IP address. For example: 192.169.1.123
- On your Windows computer (MacOS works fine as well), go to your favourite browser (Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, …) and in the address bar you enter the IP address that is shown in VLC
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That’s it. From this webpage, you can easily drag new files to be uploaded to your iPad, iPod or iPhone.
Tip: sometimes a transfer will fail, because the iPad/iPhone/iPod went into sleep mode. So if you also experience issues when moving files to your iOS device, you could try to make sure the display of your device stays on for the duration of the transfer. Also, don’t try to move over a huge number of files at once, try splitting it up.
Option 2: Use a cloud service to stream videos
You could make your own little Netflix with VLC. Yes, that’s right. VLC allows you to connect the application to a cloud service provider and stream (or save a local copy of) the video files right from there. The Cloud Services that are supported at the moment are:
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Box
- Microsoft OneDrive
Here are the steps to follow:
- Upload your videos to a cloud provider (see list above)
- Open VLC on your iOS device
- From the menu, select Cloud Services
- Select your preferred cloud company and login
NEW – Option 3: Plug in an external drive
Since the launch of iOS / iPadOS 13, your Apple device supports the use of external storage devices, such as USB thumb drive or SD cards. On Windows, copy your preferred videos to that drive/card (using a lightening or USB type-C dongle) and connect it to your iPad or iPhone. Via the Files app, copy the files over to your iDevice, or leave the external drive plugged in and view it directly from there. Afterwards, don’t just unplug the external drive but make sure you safely remove the drive from the iPad (or iPhone).
February 20th, 2018 by Vladimir Katalov
Category: «Did you know that...?», «Elcomsoft News», «Software», «Tips & Tricks»
Category: «Did you know that...?», «Elcomsoft News», «Software», «Tips & Tricks»
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iOS is a locked down mobile operating system that does not allow its apps to directly access files in the file system. Unlike every other major mobile OS, iOS does not have a “shared” area in the file system to allow apps keep and share files with other apps. Yet, individual iOS apps are allowed to let the user access their files by using the file sharing mechanism.
While uploading or downloading shared files from an Android or Windows 10 smartphone occurs over a standard MTP connection established over a standard USB cable, you’ll need several hundred megabytes worth of proprietary Apple software (and a proprietary Lightning cable) to transfer files between iOS apps and the computer. But do you really?
While there’s nothing we can do about a Lightning cable, we can at least get rid of iTunes middleware for extracting files exposed by iOS apps. We’ll show you how this works with iOS Forensic Toolkit 3.0.
iOS File Sharing
If you are not familiar with iOS and its file sharing mechanism, please refer to this article first:
The file sharing mechanism was developed by Apple to allow users transfer files between their computer and apps in their iOS devices. As an example, users can upload a bunch of e-books or PDF documents into Adobe Reader, or transfer documents into the Microsoft Office app. Another popular use for file sharing is by media players allowing to upload videos in formats that are not natively supported by iOS to avoid iTunes transcoding them. Many video players allow uploading subtitles and custom fonts, a feature that is also available from certain third-party book readers.
The file sharing mechanism is sometimes enabled by app developers by an accident. For example, we could not think of a legitimate reason for the MiniKeePass password manager to expose its password database via the file sharing mechanism – yet it does.
When analysing an iOS device, you won’t be able to tell which apps have shared files, and which don’t. Settings | General | iPhone storage lists a bunch of apps with data, but it does not make a difference between shared files and sandboxed app data. You’ll need a computer to access those files.
Normally, accessing shared files would require using Apple iTunes. This is how it looks:
That said, using iTunes during an investigation is the worst idea ever. iTunes is not forensically sound, and it’s never been. iTunes is a huge tool that attempts to automatically synchronize the user’s iPhone with their computer – something that an expert would want to avoid. Besides, the backup may be password-protected, which further complicates the extraction.
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For this reason, we built shared files extraction into our iOS acquisition tool, iOS Forensic Toolkit 3.0.
iOS 8.2 and Earlier: Extracts Sandboxed App Data
Interestingly, the extraction mechanism described below can access sandboxed app data (and not just shared files) if the device is running iOS 8.3 or earlier, being a good alternative to logical acquisition (especially considering that a backup might be protected with a password). Newer versions of iOS have disabled access to anything but shared files.
Extracting Shared Files with iOS Forensic Toolkit
If the iPhone you are about to extract is already unlocked and (in the case it runs iOS 11) you know its passcode, do the following steps.
- Launch iOS Forensic Toolkit by invoking the “Toolkit-JB” command.
- Connect the iPhone to the computer using the Lightning cable. If you are able to unlock the iPhone, pair the device by confirming the “Trust this computer?” prompt and (in the case of iOS 11) entering device passcode. If you cannot perform the pairing, you will need to provide path to a lockdown file later on.
- From the main window, enter the “S” (Shared) command.
- If you were able to establish trust between the iPhone and the computer on Step 2, you will be prompted for path to save the shared files to. If not, you will be prompted to provide path to a lockdown file. Tip: the easiest way to do it is by dragging and dropping the lockdown file onto the iOS Forensic Toolkit window when prompted.
- iOS Forensic Toolkit will begin extracting the shared files.
- Once the copying is complete, you’ll be able to review the files. By default, the “Shared” folder will be created in the user’s home folder.
Conclusion
The new extraction method in iOS Forensic Toolkit 3.0 offers a quick and convenient way to extract shared files from both unlocked and locked iPhone and iPad devices without resorting to local backups and without using the iTunes app.
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