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 estimator. You tin likewise brand 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 prophylactic, upward to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you apply iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You lot tin can proceed full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either fashion, yous can download your originals whenever you need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to engagement across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to gear up up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you lot turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You tin can come across how much space you need so upgrade your storage plan 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 estimator.
  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 request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to proceed.
  5. Choose where you lot desire to import your photos. 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. Wait for the procedure to terminate, so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make sure that you accept the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or afterward.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to your PC with a USB cablevision.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If yous encounter a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you lot to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to keep.

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

If you lot have iCloud Photos turned on, you demand to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon 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 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 all-time compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:

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

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