One of many variations with the brand new Kindles for 2024, together with the brand new fundamental Kindle, the twelfth gen Paperwhite, and the Kindle Colorsoft is the truth that they now use MTP (Media Switch Protocol) as an alternative of USB mass storage when connecting them to a pc to switch content material utilizing a USB cable. The Kindle Scribe additionally makes use of MTP.
Home windows computer systems work with MTP natively, however Mac computer systems don’t so some individuals are having issues getting their Macs to acknowledge the brand new 2024 Kindles when connecting them to a pc with a USB cable.
There are a selection of Third-party MTP functions for Macs, comparable to OpenMTP, and now Amazon has launched their very own resolution so folks can simply join Kindles to Macs to switch content material the old fashioned manner utilizing a USB cable.
The newest Ship-to-Kindle app for Mac now helps USB file transfers.
In accordance with Amazon, the brand new USB Supervisor characteristic works with Intel and Mac M1-M3 computer systems working MacOS 12 and above.
Once you need to switch information, simply join your Kindle to your Mac utilizing a USB cable, then open the Ship-to-Kindle for Mac app, after which you’ll be able to entry the USB File Supervisor characteristic from the top-left of the display screen below Instruments > USB File Supervisor. You may also click on the “Open USB File Supervisor” hyperlink on the highest proper of the Ship-to-Kindle window after signing in to your Amazon account.
Yow will discover the total set of instructions on how the whole lot works on the Join, Browse, and Switch Recordsdata web page at Amazon, which additionally contains some troubleshooting steps when you encounter any issues.
You may also use Ship-to-Kindle to wirelessly ship information to your Kindle, however in order for you switch information utilizing a USB cable from a Mac laptop you’ll want to make use of the Mac app particularly, or another MTP software program.
Ship to Kindle helps the next codecs: PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTM, HTML, PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, and EPUB.
