How to best transfer videos from my Mac to my iPhone?

[chris4565]

Hi,

I’d like to transfer some videos from my Mac to my iPhone while maintaining the folder structure etc. I already know that that’s not the most trivial thing to do on iOS. There’s the possibility to buy a Lightning/USB stick that’s specifically made for such a purpose and use the manufacturer‘s app to watch the videos. Tried this one time with a stick from Adam Elements and that didn’t work so well. App crashes, stuttery video etc.

I also tried the app Documents from Readdle that let‘s you transfer videos (even over WiFi) onto your iPhone and then watch them in the app. I would usually love this. However, I also have a problem there: After I transferred all of my videos I got the message that my available iCloud space wasn’t sufficient for my next iCloud backup. I had a look at Settings —> [Apple-ID] —> iCloud —> Manage space (don’t know the exact translation from German) —> Backups —> [My iPhone] and saw that the size of my next backup was over a dozen GB. Apparently all of my transferred videos were included. As far as I can remember the „guilty“ app was „system“ because next to it it said that the size was over a dozen GB (if I recall correctly). Is there a user of the app that knows if there is the possibility to exclude all of my transferred videos from the backup?

Or can anyone recommend me an other solution that works reliable and as desired?

Thank you so much in advance and have a great day
Chris

 

[jpn]

it is indeed a reasonable demand of the apple system to be able to share files onto an iOS device while retaining a preferred file structure and naming convention.
but yr missing the entire point: its easiest to accomplish when in fact you use apple's provided solution: with iCloud Drive at least being given the quantity of storage space that you need. apple's cloud storage fees are not prohibitively high.
this results in meeting all yr stated goals, including ease.
the only limitation is if yr iDevice has some ridiculously low amount of total GB storage such as 64GB (which would mean the hardware you have is really insufficient to the task).

 

[chris4565]

Thanks for your reply. Yup, might be that using iCloud Drive is the best solution. Still, if anyone can recommend e. g. a reliably working Lightning stick or an app, please let me know.