User Guide

Chapter 16 Videos 100
Add videos to your library
Buy or rent videos from the iTunes Store. Tap Store in the Videos app, or open the iTunes Store
app on iPhone, then tap Videos. See Chapter 22, iTunes Store, on page 111. The iTunes Store is not
available in all areas.
Transfer videos from your computer. Connect iPhone, then sync videos from iTunes on your
computer. See Sync with iTunes on page 19.
Stream videos from your computer. Turn on Home Sharing in iTunes on your computer. Then,
on iPhone, go to Settings > Videos and enter the Apple ID and password you used to set up
Home Sharing on your computer. Then open Videos on iPhone and tap Shared at the top of the
list of videos.
Convert a video to work with iPhone. If you try to sync a video from iTunes to iPhone and a
message says the video can’t play on iPhone, you can convert the video. Select the video in your
iTunes library and choose File > Create New Version > “Create iPod or iPhone Version.” Then sync
the converted video to iPhone.
Delete a video. Tap Edit in the upper right of your collection. To delete an individual episode of a
series, swipe left on the episode in the Episodes list. Deleting a video (other than a rented movie)
from iPhone doesn’t delete it from the iTunes library on your computer, and you can sync the
video back to iPhone later. If you don’t want to sync the video back to iPhone, set iTunes to not
sync the video. See Sync with iTunes on page 19.
Important: If you delete a rented movie from iPhone, it’s deleted permanently and cannot be
transferred back to your computer.
Control playback
Watch on a TV
with Apple TV.
Watch on a TV
with Apple TV.
Tap to show or
hide the controls.
Tap to show or
hide the controls.
Drag to skip
forward or back.
Drag to skip
forward or back.
Drag to adjust
the volume.
Drag to adjust
the volume.
Scale the video to ll the screen or t to the screen. Tap or . Or double-tap the video, to
scale without showing the controls. If you don’t see the scaling controls, your video already ts
the screen perfectly.
Start over from the beginning. If the video contains chapters, drag the playhead along the
scrubber bar all the way to the left. If there are no chapters, tap .
Skip to the next or previous chapter. Tap or . You can also press the center button or
equivalent on a compatible headset two times (skip to next) or three times (skip to previous).
Rewind or fast-forward. Touch and hold or .
Select a dierent audio language. If the video oers other languages, tap , then choose a
language from the Audio list.
Show subtitles or closed captions. Tap . Not all videos oer subtitles or closed captions.