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 calculator. You tin likewise make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Utilize iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Utilise iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, upward to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from ane iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are e'er kept upward to appointment across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set up and utilise iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you continue in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough infinite in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can encounter 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 cablevision.
  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 proper name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you run across 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. Adjacent to "Import to," yous tin can choose an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to cease, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Y'all can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your estimator and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that you lot take the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or after.
  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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking y'all to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

And so, visit Microsoft's website to acquire how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, yous need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you lot 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. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If you lot desire to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the all-time compatibility with Windows 10, effort these steps:

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

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