If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier or a Windows PC, use iTunes to share files between your computer and your iOS or iPadOS device.
The Multiple File Upload feature is not available through the SharePoint platform when working on a Mac. However, the Microsoft Document Connection is integrated with Office 2011 for Mac. Get your intranet in your pocket with the SharePoint mobile app. With easy on-the-go access, the SharePoint mobile app helps keep your work moving forward by providing quick access to your team sites, organization portals and resources, and the people you work with.
If you or your company uses Microsoft OneDrive or Microsoft SharePoint for cloud data storage in a Windows PC environment as part of Office 365, it can also be setup to work the same way and access and edit files on a Mac OS device such as an iMac, Mac Mini or Macbook as follows. There is no such thing as a “SharePoint-App“.
Learn about other ways you can share files between your Mac and your devices. These features work wirelessly.
iCloud Drive lets you securely access all of your documents from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC. No matter which device you're using, you'll always have the most up-to-date documents when and where you need them.
With Handoff, you can start a document, email, or message on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. Handoff works with Apple apps such as Mail, Safari, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. It also works with some third-party apps.
AirDrop lets you instantly share your photos, videos, documents, and more with other Apple devices that are nearby.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, use the app that you chose in the Files tab to open files that you shared from your computer.
Depending on the file type, some apps can't open files in other apps or locations. You can see the list of files in the Files tab of the Finder when your device is connected to your computer.
When iCloud or your computer backs up your device, it backs up your shared files as well.
If you delete an app with shared files from your iOS or iPadOS device, you also delete those shared files from your device and your iCloud or computer backup. To avoid losing shared files, copy the files to your computer before deleting the app from your device.
There might be other ways to delete files from an app. See the app's user guide to find out more.
These days my primary laptop is an Apple Macbook Pro 13″ — it is a pretty sweet piece of hardware. There’s plenty of other folks in the SharePoint community that have been making a similar switch recently like Andrew Connell and Jeremy Thake and Sahil Malik. Everyone seems to be singing the same praise for the Macbook Pros and perhaps surprisingly most that have made the switch are choosing to run in OSX as their primary operating system.
I’ve been running this setup since last summer but most days when I’m SharePointing I use my Windows desktop. As I was getting ready for the upcoming SharePoint Conference, I was preparing for the session I’m co-presenting with Randy Drisgill called Branding Internet facing web sites with SharePoint in the cloud (which you should come see!) I was running through some of the demos and realized that I should probably try to do them on my MBP. One of the demos involves the Design Manager connecting to an SharePoint Online site in Office365. No problem right? Wrong.
The usual steps of connecting to an external didn’t work (open up Finder, then Go > Connect to Server). I scoured the interwebs looking for an answer, I tried emailing different folks at Microsoft, and didn’t really have much luck. At that point I did what everyone else would probably do: I complained on Facebook. I’m glad I did because I found the answer in an unlikely place — from the husband of someone I went to high school (maybe even middle school?) with. Big thanks to Scott Newsome!
Here’s how you connect your Mac with OSX to a SharePoint library — this requires Office for Mac 2011:
And that’s it. Hopefully this helps other folks trying to do the same thing. This helped in my scenario but the tool itself isn’t perfect — for more information on the limitations check out: http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2013/01/office-for-mac-2011-document-connection/
[UPDATE: Dux reminded me of this great post he wrote on using SharePoint with a Mac. Tons of great info here: http://meetdux.com/2010/04/06/sharepoint-2010-mac-ipad-iphone-ipod/ ]
Enjoy!