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 can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can besides make 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, up to appointment, and available automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you lot apply iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can go on full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are e'er kept up to engagement across all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare up and employ iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Earlier you plough on iCloud Photos, make sure that y'all accept plenty infinite in iCloud to store your entire drove. You can encounter how much space y'all demand 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 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 noun in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you lot see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust to proceed.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," y'all can choose an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you lot want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the procedure to cease, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make sure that yous accept 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 bear on to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If y'all see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Let to continue.

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

If you accept 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 y'all import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might exist 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 take the best compatibility with Windows 10, endeavour these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Camera, then tap Formats.
  3. Tap Nigh Compatible. From now on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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