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 tin can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Utilise iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos prophylactic, upwards to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When you use 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 lot tin can keep 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 y'all make are always kept upward to date beyond all your Apple devices. Acquire how to gear up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that you take enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much space you lot need and then upgrade your storage program if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac with a USB cablevision.
  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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking yous to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you 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 process to finish, then 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. Brand sure that you take the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or later on.
  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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

Then, 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 you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. Y'all 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 best compatibility with Windows 10, endeavor these steps:

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

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