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 can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can as well make 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 safe, upward to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, yous don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save infinite with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, you tin download your originals whenever y'all demand them. Any organizational changes or edits you brand are always kept up to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go on in iCloud Photos utilize your iCloud storage. Before you lot turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to shop your entire collection. You tin can encounter how much space you need and and then upgrade your storage plan 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'due south name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If y'all see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Calculator, tap Trust to proceed.
  5. Choose where yous want to import your photos. Adjacent to "Import to," you tin choose an existing anthology 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 finish, so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You tin import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your figurer 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.v.1 or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you lot see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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 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. 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 best compatibility with Windows 10, endeavor these steps:

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

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