In a kitchen drawer, between a key that fitted no door and a knot of charging cables, lay an iPhone 6s. It had once been the newest phone in the house, and it had taken more pictures of the cat than anyone would ever look at. Then one Christmas a bigger phone arrived, the old one went into the drawer “for now,” and for now lasted nine years. “We are retired, you and I,” said the key. “I am resting,” said the iPhone.
One evening a hand took it out, plugged it in and installed NAS Reborn. It heard the Mac in the study — which had never once spoken to — ask for a folder, and the iPhone appeared in the Finder as if it had always belonged there.
Then the Mac wanted to hand over its Time Machine backups. “I have only sixteen gigabytes,” the iPhone whispered. So the hand brought a hard drive, a broad, quiet fellow who hummed to himself, and joined the two with Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter, which took the charger as well.
Soon it served a website over HTTPS, answered anyone who spoke S3 and took in Git repositories from Working Copy, all on a few watts. The things in the drawer did not believe a word, and the key still tells everyone that the iPhone is only resting.
NAS Reborn turns an iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2 or anything newer into a network drive for the Finder, the Files app and Windows Explorer. Join the TestFlight beta for iPhone, iPad and Mac at nasreborn.com.