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

With the Photos app and a USB cablevision, yous 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 rubber, up to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple 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 always uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. Y'all can go along 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 brand are always kept upward to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that yous keep in iCloud Photos apply your iCloud storage. Before yous turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that you have plenty space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much space y'all demand 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 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 appear, click the device'southward proper noun in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you lot meet a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where y'all want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," yous can cull an existing album or create a new i.
  6. Select the photos you want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Expect for the process to finish, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You 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.i 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 you run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

And so, visit Microsoft's website to larn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you demand to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch earlier 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. You tin 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 have the all-time compatibility with Windows 10, effort these steps:

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

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