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 can transfer photos and videos to your computer. Y'all tin can also 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, upwardly to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you utilise iCloud Photos, you lot don't need to import photos from i iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You tin keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either fashion, you lot can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you proceed in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you plow on iCloud Photos, brand certain that y'all have plenty infinite in iCloud to shop your unabridged collection. You tin see how much space yous need and and then upgrade your storage program if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your figurer.
  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 yous come across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust to go on.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can cull an existing album 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 terminate, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Y'all can import photos to your PC past connecting your device to your figurer 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.one or later.
  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 y'all meet a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Figurer, tap Trust or Allow to keep.

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

If you lot have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, total resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon before y'all import to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might exist rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can 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 best 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 now on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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