Reader Adam Spelbring is unsure of just what limitation the Lightning connexion places on iOS devices , specially in their relationship to iTunes . He write :
I ’ve heard that the Lightning connecter does n’t carry a video signaling to external devices . Does that also imply you could not spiel video from your iPhone 5 when connect to your Mac using iTunes ?
Let ’s take a step back and clear up a tiny turn of confusion . When the Lightning connective was first herald , some report that the connection did n’t support telecasting yield . My colleague Dan Frakescleared that up , substantiate with Apple that the connecter could indeed manage both audio and video . However , to make this happen , Apple has to release video transcriber , which it enunciate it plan to do in the arrive months .
At the risk of exposure of taking yet another step back and walk all the path out of the pillar , some readers may not get laid what you ’re talking about when you refer playing video from an iOS gimmick or iPod through iTunes to your Mac ’s screen . It ’s like this :
For many iterations of the iPod ( and now iOS devices ) , you could plug one of these contrivance into your Mac , select it in iTunes ’ seed listing , get at one of its media folders , choose a hunk of medium ( a song , video show , or movie , for illustration ) , click frolic , and the medium would play through your Mac just as if that media was put in topically in your iTunes library . I ’ve used this trick for years — filling a 160 GB iPod classic with movies and play them on my MacBook Pro , thus saving my MacBook ’s storage infinite for more important data .
The introductions of the Lightning connective does nothing to change this relationship . And it does n’t because , as in the past tense , iTunes handles all the video and audio task . It simply treats your iPhone , iPod , or iPad as a reposition twist that ’s usable directly from within iTunes . The tethered gadget ask n’t business organization itself with project video . Rather , it just has to bid up the files stored on it for playback .
The one difficulty you may meet , on any iPod or iOS gimmick you use this way , is with iTunes protected medium . If you ’ve copied a pic you buy to your iPhone and then jack the phone into another electronic computer , you ’ll be required to empower that computer with one of your five iTunes authorizations before you’re able to encounter the film .
