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. Yous can also 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, up to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When y'all utilise iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from ane iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You tin continue total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you lot tin download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you brand are ever kept up to appointment beyond all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you lot keep in iCloud Photos utilize your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you lot have plenty space in iCloud to store your entire collection. Yous tin can come across how much space you need and then upgrade your storage programme 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 announced, click the device'due south name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you meet a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust to proceed.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Adjacent to "Import to," you tin choose an existing album or create a new ane.
  6. Select the photos yous want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Expect for the procedure to finish, 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 figurer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make certain that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.i 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 yous see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

And so, visit Microsoft's website to learn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you lot have iCloud Photos turned on, yous need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 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. Y'all can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If y'all want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device accept 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 Well-nigh Uniform. From at present on, your photographic camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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