Apple Posts MobileMe iDisk App Video Tutorial
Just downloaded the new Apple MobileMe iDisk app [Free - iTunes link] to your iPhone or iPod touch and eager to know it better? Apple wants to show you how, literally. MobileMe News covers Apple’s latest App Store app, and Apple.com has a video tutorial available to get you started.
For example, it explains that documents get downloaded to your iPhone, and recent documents remain stored for offline viewing. Nice.
If you pick up any other tricks, or have any pro tips for iDisk on iPhone, let us know in the comments!
July 29th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Does anyone know if you can store movies on there and then watch them on your phone? I’m thinking I can put TV seasons on my iDisk and then watch them per episode while I’m at work without wasting space on my phone.
July 29th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
@Jono
Yes, I transferred the Watchmen movie from my i-Tunes to iDisk. Works great!!! This app is pretty awesome. It’s like I now have an extra 20gb on my iPhone 3Gs. I am a very happy person today
July 29th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Yes you can I just did it with a quicktime movie I made. worked great
July 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
That is so awesome that we can store movies to that now since the iPhone doesn’t have that much space.
July 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Anyone know if you can upload files to iDisk from iPhone?
July 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
@ DAN That would be a good feature and common sense would say yes but there is no way in hell apple is giving anyone access to the iphone file system
July 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Although you can’t upload (and @Patrik, your argument makes sense), this app was long due. I’m really glad they finally released it!
July 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Dan, Patrick this is not an apple restriction. Quickoffice let’s you do everything that iDisk appl does including upload iDisk and get mail attachments. You can move files between three sources/destinations: iPhone, iDisk, email attachments
July 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Be careful there are transfer limits with MobileMe.
July 29th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I find it annoying that when you are using the app in landscape mode, the email client, when sharing a file, does not orient to landscape. The same can be said for the settings menu.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@Dryland The limits are 200gb/per month. I would think you could download continuously and not run out.
July 30th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Having tried iDisk now and compared speed with Quickoffice… iDisk has a lot of room for improvement. Quickoffice opened a 3Mb word doc 10 times faster than iDisk.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:02 am
So what is the point of iDisk if it can’t even do everything Quickoffice does? I have quickoffice and I’m wondering why the hell i should even keep iDisk App on my iPhone now?
July 30th, 2009 at 11:46 am
It would be so awesome if Apple would come up with a Mobile Me plan for just iDisk and Find my iPhone. I would love to be able to use these features, but don’t need another email account. Definitely don’t need to pay $99 / year for another email account I won’t use. It would be great if they had a less pricey option that only gave you iDisk and Find my iPhone capabilities.
July 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
First of all iDisk is free… So if you have Mobile me but not Quickoffice, that is a point in it’s favour. A less expensive mobile me service would be great but unlikely. If anything I see Apple expanding it’s capabilities and possibly raising the price, not lowering it.