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 reckoner. You can also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, up to appointment, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you employ iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you tin download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are ever kept up to date across all your Apple devices. Acquire how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go on in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire drove. You tin can see how much space you demand and so upgrade your storage programme if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 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 the photos and videos that are on your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If y'all run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Adjacent to "Import to," you tin choose an existing anthology or create a new ane.
  6. Select the photos you want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Look for the procedure to stop, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

So, visit Microsoft's website to larn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you accept iCloud Photos turned on, you lot need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you import to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. Yous can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:

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

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