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 tin can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can also brand your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Utilise iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safety, upward to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When yous employ iCloud Photos, y'all 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 lot tin proceed full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save infinite with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you demand them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to prepare up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that y'all keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Earlier you plow on iCloud Photos, brand sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You tin can see 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 on to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your reckoner.
  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 you see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," yous tin cull an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Expect for the process to end, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You tin can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your calculator 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 subsequently.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you run across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

So, visit Microsoft'southward website to acquire how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows ten.

If yous have 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 yous import to your PC.

When y'all import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. Yous tin 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 x, 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 volition create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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