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Add videos to your library, Control playback – Apple iPhone iOS 8.1 User Manual

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Chapter 16

Videos

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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 112. 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 18.

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

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 18.

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.

Tap

or

. Or double-tap the video, to

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

.

, then choose a

language from the Audio list.

Show subtitles or closed captions. Tap