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 can transfer photos and videos to your computer. Y'all tin can as well brand your photos bachelor 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 safety, upward 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 one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. Y'all can keep total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you lot can download your originals whenever yous need them. Any organizational changes or edits you lot brand are e'er kept up to engagement beyond all your Apple devices. Learn how to gear up upwards and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that yous keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before y'all turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough infinite in iCloud to shop your unabridged collection. You lot tin see 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 cablevision.
  2. Open up 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 announced, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If y'all encounter a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to go along.
  5. Choose where you lot want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," yous tin cull an existing album or create a new one.
  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 procedure to finish, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Yous tin import photos to your PC past connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Brand sure that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.five.ane or afterward.
  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 you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Allow to keep.

Then, 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, y'all need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before y'all import to your PC.

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

If you lot want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows ten, endeavor these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Photographic camera, so tap Formats.
  3. Tap Most Uniform. From at present on, your photographic camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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