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 lot can transfer photos and videos to your reckoner. You can likewise make your photos bachelor on all of 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 on your PC. When y'all use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can continue full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve space with device-optimised versions instead. Either way, you tin can download your originals whenever you demand them. Any organisational changes or edits you brand will ever be kept upwardly to date across all of your Apple devices. Find out how to ready upwards and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you continue in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before turning on iCloud Photos, make sure you have enough space in iCloud to store your unabridged drove. Y'all tin see how much space you demand and and so upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear on to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your estimator.
  3. The Photos app shows an Import screen with all of the photos and videos that are on your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't announced automatically, click the device'southward 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 you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Cull where you want to import your photos to. Next to "Import to", you can choose 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. Expect until the procedure has finished, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You lot can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Brand sure you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.five.1 or later.
  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 lot run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you lot to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust or Permit to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, y'all'll need to download the original, total-resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch before importing to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some of them may appear the wrong way up in the Windows Photos app. Y'all tin 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 accept the best compatibility with Windows 10, try following 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 photographic camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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