Wireless transfer: from your computer to the vault

When you need it

Old photos often live on a computer, not a phone. Scans from a family album, a folder of documents, videos from a camera. Moving them through a cloud drive or a chat app leaves copies in places you didn’t mean to use. Moving them straight across your own network doesn’t.

Wireless transfer sends files from your computer to your iPhone over your own Wi-Fi, and it is part of Sealed Pro.

What stays local

Wireless transfer runs over your own Wi-Fi, between your computer and your iPhone, and nothing goes through the internet.

The phone and the computer talk to each other across your home network. Nothing is uploaded to a service along the way, and the files are sealed on the phone as they arrive.

How to send files

1. Put the computer and the phone on the same Wi-Fi network.
2. Open your vault, tap the plus button and choose From Computer (Wi-Fi).
3. Type the address the phone shows into a web browser on the computer.
4. Choose the files on the computer and send them.
5. Keep the phone’s screen open until the files arrive. The transfer address works only while the Wireless Transfer screen is open, and it closes after too many wrong addresses are tried.

Do this on a network you trust, such as your home Wi-Fi. A café or hotel network is shared with strangers.

The free way with a cable

A USB drop box folder shows up in Finder when you connect your iPhone to a Mac, and it is free.

Copy files into that folder from Finder, then open the vault on the phone. The files are brought in and sealed. A file in the USB drop box folder is removed from the folder only after it has been imported into the vault.

After the move

The files you sent are now in two places: the vault and the computer. If the point was to keep them only in the vault, delete them from the computer, and from its trash, once you have checked they opened.

Free or Pro

Wireless transfer sends files from your computer to your iPhone over your own Wi-Fi, and it is part of Sealed Pro. On the free plan you can add photos. Videos, documents, notes and records need Sealed Pro.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps you bring files from a computer into the vault without a cloud in the middle. Wireless transfer runs over your own Wi-Fi, between your computer and your iPhone, and nothing goes through the internet.

It doesn’t do these things:

• Clean up the computer. The originals stay on it until you delete them. Only the drop box folder empties itself. A file in the USB drop box folder is removed from the folder only after it has been imported into the vault.
• Bring in videos or documents on the free plan, by either route. On the free plan you can add photos. Videos, documents, notes and records need Sealed Pro.
• Work across the internet. Both devices need the same network. Wireless transfer runs over your own Wi-Fi, between your computer and your iPhone, and nothing goes through the internet.
• Move files over Wi-Fi for free. Wireless transfer sends files from your computer to your iPhone over your own Wi-Fi, and it is part of Sealed Pro. The documents guide lists other ways in.