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Transfer items to your Mac, or they will be removed from your phone - Why do Apple make an issue out of this? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I get this prompt sometimes when I connect my phone to my computer. It doesn't tell me what items it's referring to, but I know I don't want anything on my computer that isn't there already. But it looks like if I don't go ahead with it, the mystery items will be removed from my phone.

Anybody know what the thinking is behind this? Maybe it's just a sync setting I've set myself, but it reads like some kind of crazy ransom note :)

I chose 'Don't Transfer' in the end. I have no idea what the consequences are. I don't notice any differences on my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a carryover from the iPod days. You can thank the music industry's DRM for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds credible because the message is so vague, it’s as if it was written for a single-purpose device.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It makes more sense when you think of how syncing music worked for iPods.

Music went from your PC to the iPod, and that was the only way. You're syncing your iPod with your PC to make your iPod match your PC. The iPod touch came out and let you download music on the device, but when you went to sync to make the data match you gotta make it match. Either copy the data to your PC, or delete it from the iPod.