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 computer. You tin as well brand 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 condom, up to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you utilise iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either style, y'all tin download your originals whenever yous need them. Any organizational changes or edits y'all brand are always kept upward to engagement across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go on in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Earlier you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you lot have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can encounter how much infinite yous need 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 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 connected 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 you see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Adjacent to "Import to," you lot can choose an existing anthology or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you lot want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Expect for the process to stop, and then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.ane 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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Allow to keep.

And then, visit Microsoft'southward website to learn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows x.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact earlier you import to your PC.

When y'all import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. Yous can add together these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If y'all want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device take the best compatibility with Windows 10, effort these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Photographic camera, 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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