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 reckoner. You can besides brand 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, upwards to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you lot don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. You tin keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either fashion, you can download your originals whenever y'all need them. Whatsoever organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to appointment beyond all your Apple devices. Learn how to fix and utilize iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your unabridged collection. Yous can see how much space you need and then upgrade your storage program if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open up 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 announced, 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 yous want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," y'all tin choose an existing anthology or create a new 1.
  6. Select the photos y'all want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Look for the process to finish, so 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 computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that y'all take the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or afterwards.
  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 request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If you take iCloud Photos turned on, you demand to download the original, total resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect 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. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you desire to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the all-time 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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