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

With the Photos app and a USB cablevision, you tin transfer photos and videos to your figurer. You tin can besides make your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Employ iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos rubber, up 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 e'er uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. You can keep total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, y'all tin download your originals whenever you need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are e'er kept up to date beyond all your Apple devices. Learn how to gear up and utilize iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos utilise your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make certain that you take enough space in iCloud to store your unabridged collection. Y'all can run into how much space you need and then 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 up the Photos app on your calculator.
  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. Cull where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you tin cull an existing anthology 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 finish, so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make certain that you accept the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or afterward.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 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 lot to Trust This Calculator, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

Then, visit Microsoft'due south website to larn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you 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 you import to your PC.

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

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device accept the all-time compatibility with Windows 10, attempt these steps:

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

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