Chapter 2

Putting Your Data and Media on the iPhone

So, you've unboxed your iPhone and connected it to iTunes. Now what? Chapter 1 briefly introduced the basics of syncing your iPhone with your music, movies, photos, and other data via iTunes. Now this chapter explores the options you have for syncing your data with your iPhone. Whether you've bought your songs and videos from the iTunes Store or have imported them into the program from CDs and DVDs, iTunes can synchronize your iPhone to nearly any content in its library. If you want a rich media and applications library on your iPhone, you need to sync those contents from the library on your computer.

iTunes determines which app, music, and video files transfer to and load onto your iPhone. ...

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