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 estimator. 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

Employ iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, upwardly to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you lot use iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can go along total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salvage space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are ever kept up to date across all your Apple devices. Larn how to set up upward and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that yous go on in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that y'all have enough infinite in iCloud to store your entire drove. You can meet how much infinite yous demand and and so 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 cablevision.
  2. Open 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 proper 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 request you lot to Trust This Figurer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where y'all want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you lot can cull an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos yous desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to finish, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make certain that you take 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 on to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you come across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Let to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you 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. Y'all 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 all-time compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open up the Settings app.
  2. Tap Camera, 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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