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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, yous can transfer photos and videos to your figurer. Y'all tin also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Apply iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, up to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you employ iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. You tin can keep total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you lot can download your originals whenever you need them. Whatsoever organizational changes or edits you make are ever kept upward to engagement across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set upward and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you lot keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you accept enough space in iCloud to store your entire drove. Y'all tin see how much space you need and so upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on 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 continued 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 yous see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking yous to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to go along.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can choose an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos y'all want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Await 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 reckoner and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that y'all have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.one or after.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your PC with a USB cablevision.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Allow to proceed.

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

If you lot 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 yous 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. You lot can add together these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If yous want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows 10, endeavour these steps:

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

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