Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to your Mac or PC

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can besides brand your photos available on all of your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Utilise iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, up to date and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com and even on your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, yous don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save infinite with device-optimised versions instead. Either fashion, you can download your originals whenever you demand them. Any organisational changes or edits you lot make will always be kept up to appointment across all of your Apple devices. Find out how to gear up and employ iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos utilize your iCloud storage. Before turning on iCloud Photos, make sure yous have plenty space in iCloud to store your entire drove. Y'all can run into how much space you need and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your computer.
  3. The Photos app shows an Import screen with all of the photos and videos that are on your continued device. If the Import screen doesn't appear automatically, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to keep.
  5. Choose where you lot want to import your photos to. Next to "Import to", you can choose an existing album or create a new 1.
  6. Select the photos you lot want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    The macOS Photos Import window
  7. Await until the process has finished, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You tin can import photos to your PC past connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Update to the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.i or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod affect to your PC with a USB cablevision.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you come across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Calculator, tap Trust or Allow to keep.

Then, visit Microsoft'southward website to detect out how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows ten.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you'll need to download the original, full-resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch before importing to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some of them may appear the wrong way upwards in the Windows Photos app. You can add together these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you lot want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device accept the best compatibility with Windows x, endeavor following these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Photographic camera, then tap Formats.
  3. Tap Near Compatible. From now on, your photographic camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

Visit Microsoft'south website to find out how to import photos using Windows 7 or Windows viii.

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