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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, yous can transfer photos and videos to your reckoner. You lot can also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Employ iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safety, up to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, yous don't need to import photos from i iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Yous can go on full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, y'all can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you lot brand are e'er kept up to appointment across all your Apple devices. Learn how to gear up and utilise iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before y'all turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that y'all take plenty space in iCloud to shop your entire collection. You tin can come across how much space you need and and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open 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 appear, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to keep.
  5. Choose where y'all desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you tin can cull an existing album or create a new 1.
  6. Select the photos y'all desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to terminate, and 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 y'all 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 lot see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking y'all to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Let to continue.

Then, visit Microsoft's website to learn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you lot demand to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon 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 add together 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 Camera, then tap Formats.
  3. Tap Most Compatible. From at present on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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