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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you tin can transfer photos and videos to your figurer. You can also brand your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Employ iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos prophylactic, up to engagement, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you apply iCloud Photos, yous don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Yous tin keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve infinite with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, you can download your originals whenever y'all need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you brand are e'er kept up to engagement across all your Apple devices. Larn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You lot tin see how much space you need and and so 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 reckoner.
  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 run across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to keep.
  5. Cull where y'all desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," yous can cull an existing anthology or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you lot desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Await for the process to finish, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make sure that y'all 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 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 Computer, tap Trust or Allow to go on.

Then, visit Microsoft'due south website to larn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows x.

If you lot have iCloud Photos turned on, you lot demand to download the original, total resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon before you lot 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 right orientation.

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows ten, try these steps:

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

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