Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

I realize this is a dumb question, but what's a good way to do this between an iPhone and a MacBook? Airdrop is disabled (by policy), iCloud storage is full (because I'm lazy), and I use syncthing on every other device, but I haven't found a client I can use on my work iPhone.

Mobius Sync. Works like a charm.

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Möbius Sync doesn't sync in the background; you must have the app in the foreground for it to function. So, not quite a proper substitute for Syncthing, but may work for OPs usecase.

If they're on the same network, cross platform, open source airdrop alternative https://github.com/localsend/localsend

Use Signal. If you install the desktop client Signal has a special "Note to Self" address you can use to transfer message attachments between devices.

Connect both devices to the same WiFi network and use a http server like:

  python -m http.server

Of course it syncs in the background. It‘s just not instantaneous, because iOS severely limits what you can do in the background.

Signal 'note to self' works. I have several nts's...medical, links only, shopping...if I think of something on one device (pc/ android for me), it's on the other within seconds.

Doesn’t signal have pretty restrictive size limitations or does this not apply to note to self?

Nope, it does sync in the background, just few minutes ago I had a notification that it synced.

When python is not installed already (Windows pretty much) or the computer is the destination, I prefer https://github.com/sigoden/dufs, a single binary supporting uploads, folder .zip download, and even webdav

I like LocalSend and Landrop. The latter performed better when I sent large files. However, neither of them does it automatically; you have to manually do it every time, which is okay since they don’t claim to be sync software.

Right, it does the best it can given the limitations of iOS, but "not instantaneous" can mean hours before synchronisation happens. When the phone's charging, or when the app is open, then it does tend to work almost as well as on Android.

I tend to message myself a lot of things. Usually links not files, but it works and it doesn’t take me out of the headspace I’m occupying. Either Apple messages or slack.

I've been using sharedrop.io which also is open-source [1] and it works quite nice, I particularly like this one because I don't have to install any third-party app on any of the devices.

I think on mac Safari usually doesn't work as well as in Chrome, but I've been able to transfer from Windows to iOS, Windows to macOS and macOS to iOS without installing a thing.

[1] https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

I used this for years, then finally implemented uploads with flask. Can send photos from mobile quickly.

Tailscale’s killer feature TailDrop. Reliable file transfer between devices of all kinds!

Pairdrop.net is my go-to in these cases. Easy to remember, just add a P to Airdrop :)

Maybe syncthing fits your use case better?

https://syncthing.net/

Thanks, I do use syncthing and it’s great!

Came here to say syncthing and Möbius Sync. Works like a charm for me between Win, *nix, macOS, Android and iOS.

But getting iOS to sync was a pain. Still, now it works just fine.

Weird -- at least when I tried it, I couldn't get it to work in the background. Maybe it was working, but not reliably?

I use Telegram to transfer (and store) a crazy lot of stuff. Unlimited storage, with file sizes limited to 2GB (or 4GB for premium users).