Automatic video sync between iPhone and Mac

[Gogurt48]

I think this is new. I'm running iOS 7, beta 4, on my iPhone 5 and iTunes 11.1 beta on my MacBook Pro. When watching a video on the Mac with iTunes, if I go to the iPhone and call up the same video, it picks up right where I left off on the Mac. Later, if I go back to the Mac, it picks up right where I left off on the iPhone. It does this automatically, without having to sync the iPhone.

It's a wonderful feature. Is it new, or did I just not notice it before?

 

[hnic247]

home sharing?

 

[Gogurt48]

home sharing?

Nope. A good guess, but I don't have Home Sharing enabled.

 

[rtomyj]

Could be that you have your movie stored in the cloud and then select the movies and your iDevice through the cloud as well… if not and they're both stored locally then it does appear to be a very neat feature.

 

[Jab00]

I think this is new. I'm running iOS 7, beta 4, on my iPhone 5 and iTunes 11.1 beta on my MacBook Pro. When watching a video on the Mac with iTunes, if I go to the iPhone and call up the same video, it picks up right where I left off on the Mac. Later, if I go back to the Mac, it picks up right where I left off on the iPhone. It does this automatically, without having to sync the iPhone.

It's a wonderful feature. Is it new, or did I just not notice it before?

This was a pretty big feature that they mentioned during the introduction of iOS 7 if I remember correctly. Haven't heard anything about it since then and I completely forgot about it but glad to hear it is working as advertised!

 

[Gogurt48]

Could be that you have your movie stored in the cloud and then select the movies and your iDevice through the cloud as well… if not and they're both stored locally then it does appear to be a very neat feature.

I can confirm that both movies I tested this with were stored locally. Also, one was tagged as a movie, the other was tagged as a home video. It worked the same either way.

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This was a pretty big feature that they mentioned during the introduction of iOS 7 if I remember correctly. Haven't heard anything about it since then and I completely forgot about it but glad to hear it is working as advertised!

They must have mentioned it when they were discussing Mavericks. I missed a big chunk of that presentation. It's a great feature and it really does work!

 

[rtomyj]

I can confirm that both movies I tested this with were stored locally. Also, one was tagged as a movie, the other was tagged as a home video. It worked the same either way.

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They must have mentioned it when they were discussing Mavericks. I missed a big chunk of that presentation. It's a great feature and it really does work!

Nice job Apple! Haha

 

[Gogurt48]

Apparently, this is a feature of iCloud. From Apple's website:

Whenever you pause a movie, podcast, or audiobook before the end, iCloud remembers where you left off. So you can pick up in the same spot on any of your devices.

I'm pretty sure this didn't work for me until I installed the iTunes 11.1 beta a few days ago. But it sure does work now! It's wonderful!