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 figurer. Yous can as well brand your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Employ iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safety, upward to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from ane iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Yous tin can continue total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, you can download your originals whenever you demand them. Any organizational changes or edits yous make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to set upwardly and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that y'all keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you lot plough on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have plenty space in iCloud to store your unabridged collection. You tin see how much space you lot need and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact 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 continued device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, 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 request you to Trust This Figurer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you lot want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you tin choose an existing anthology or create a new i.
  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 stop, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer 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 afterward.
  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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, total resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on 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 lot desire to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:

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

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