How to Transfer QuickTime Movie to iPhone

Updated Sep 13,2018 | by Cody

A video player, QuickTime can also be used for movie recording, screen recording, and simple video editing. Videos from QuickTime, by default, are saved with MOV file format, which is not an iOS supported format. So how do you watch QuickTime videos on iPhone?

In this article, I will show you how to transfer QuickTime movie to iPhone and watch it without any problem. Actually, there are 2 types of solution here to help you watch QuickTime Video on your iOS device. you can convert QuickTime video to MP4 or another format compatible with your iOS device or get a video player app that supports QuickTime videos.

When you use iTunes to sync QuickTime videos to iPhone, it may fail to upload the media to iPhone during the process. iPhone does support MOV file format but it has to be compressed with specific codecs and encoded at a precise framerate.

If some parameters of the video do not fall within the certain range, iPhone will reject this video. Even if you successfully transfer the video to iPhone, you cannot play MOV video on iPhone. in order to solve this problem, you can use iTunes to make to QuickTime video compatible with iPhone.

You can follow the steps below to get started:

Step 1. Within iTunes, click the “File” tab on the program menu. Select “Add File to Library” and select the QuickTime movie file to add it to iTunes Library. 

Step 2. Locate the media in Movies Library menu. Click the “Advanced” tab and select “Create iPod or iPhone Version.”

 Step 3. When it is complete, you will be prompted with a confirmation message. Then the iPhone-compatible version of the QuickTime Movie file is listed alongside the original MOV video.

 Step 4. Connect your iPhone to this computer with the USB lightning cable. Click on the iPhone icon when your device was detected by iTunes.

 Step 5. Click the “Movies” tab and make sure the “Sync Movies” box is checked. Then click “Sync” to start transfer QuickTime movie to iPhone.

 In this way, you can watch the QuickTime Movie with the TV app on iPhone successfully.

Another easier workaround would be to convert QuickTime movie to another video format which iPhone handles better. To do that, you can use IOTransfer, a dedicated desktop program that allows you to convert MOV video to MP4 or many other formats and transfer the video to iPhone with one click.

You can refer to the steps below to see how it works.

Step 1. Free download and install IOTransfer on your computer running Windows 10/8/7. Connect your iPhone to this PC via USB cable.

Step 2. Open this program. Click on the VIDEO tab at the top menu and select the Converter from the left panel.

Step 3. Click Add Files to add the QuickTime video that you want to transfer to iPhone.

Step 4. Click the Output Format and select MP4 or other iOS compatible video format from the drop-down menu.

Step 5. Check the option “Automatically transfer the converted video into your iOS device” and click Convert Now to start the video conversion.

When the process is finished, the converted QuickTime video is automatically transferred to your iPhone. You can open the TV app on your iPhone to play it now. As you can see, this tool also supports audio file format, so you can use it to convert video to MP3 or another audio format.

If you have already transferred a QuickTime video to iPhone and find it unable to play, then you can download a free media player app that perfectly supports MOV format from AppStore.

PlayerXtreme is a free media player that supports many formats even if they don’t normally play on your iPhone. It's very easy to use. All you need is to add your QuickTime movie file to the app and you can tap it to play.

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