“I know where my apps are located, and thanks to iOS 4 I can have more apps, games, tools, utilities, and I can organize all of it in screen folders,” Kayhill reports. “But what’s lurking under the hood of my iPhone? What’s inside?”
Kayhill reports, “Enter a free Mac and Windows PC app—iPhone Explorer—which lets you exercise your personal curiosity about what goes on inside your Mac—without you having to be all geeky and have a conniption fit if something breaks. It won’t… Once your iPhone is connected to your Mac, use iPhone Explorer to look at files and folders on the iPhone from a Finder-like interface. You can create, delete, and change the names of files and folders on your iPhone (also works on the iPod touch).”
Full article here.
I see people deleting the wrong files and complaining about their iPhone not working…
Have it. Forgot about it. Now that I have IOS4 I’ll have to revisit!
thank steve, thats it’s easy to backup before hand, and restore too.
Its funny that you can just plug in your iphone into a windows box and it will show up and you can see your files without needing a program. Much safer on the mac that they dont allow that without a program.
What I would love to do is figure out how the heck do I delete apps from itunes. I uncheck them.. I even go to the folder in finder and manually remove the app itself… and yet somehow its still in my list of apps but its unchecked. And its not just for one app its for many.
I posted this to the article itself as well, but just in case:
Thanks for the article; I’m always a little peeved that my iPhone is a “closed-box”.
I found a tool to help with the voicemails and texts, that I thought I’d recommend since you mentioned that we’re on our own for those. I use Decipher TextMessage and VoiceMail, which are just two cute little pieces of software that show you all your voicemail and texts from your backups. Straight to the point and simple.
http://decipher-media.com/iphone-tools/
Jtc, unchecked apps stay in iTunes but don’t sync to your iPhone or iPad. To delete them, just right click…delete.
Okay, am I the only one who sees a contradiction here?
lets you exercise your personal curiosity about what goes on inside your Mac—without you having to be all geeky and have a conniption fit if something breaks. It won’t…
So it won’t break, huh? Don’t have to worry, right? Wait…
You can create, delete, and change the names of files and folders on your iPhone
Um, Ms. Kayhill? If you allow a user to delete files and folders, you can’t say the iPhone won’t break.
This looks like an interesting utility. It also looks very dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn’t know what he or she is doing.
——RM
@Chris
Thanks I’ll have to check it out. I thought I tried that through itunes before but didn’t work as if there is some xml file holding the info or something.. I’ll try when I get home..
Use it all the time. Never had a problem.
It’s worth it to go to Mac360 to find the full length photo of Alexis Kayhill.
I’ve used this fro a year and a half. At least.
http://ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
@lordrobin
Not necessarily a contradiction if it doesn’t let you delete any critical files. The App could be designed to automatically hide or not let you delete anything that would mess up the iPhone OS-wise, but instead just let your view content.
Well that really is no news, it’s there for a long time…
Better solution: try PhoneDisk. It shows you your iPhone directly in the Finder, no clumsy phoney Finder…
“Enter a free Mac and Windows PC app—iPhone Explorer—which lets you exercise your personal curiosity about what goes on inside your Mac”
Uhhh…..I’m assuming it’s supposed to say “what goes on inside your iPhone”.
@aa Attendee,
Went to the site and saw the face shot profile but where is the full body shot?
What’s inside the iPhone is NOT for you to EXPLORE! May your phone get bricked.