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, yous can transfer photos and videos to your computer. Yous 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, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You lot tin keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, yous tin download your originals whenever you lot need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to ready and utilize iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you proceed in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before yous turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to shop your entire collection. You can see how much infinite you demand 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 continued device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, click the device'south proper 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 y'all want to import your photos. Side by side to "Import to," you can 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. Look for the process to finish, 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 estimator 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.one or after.
  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 request you to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust or Permit to go along.

Then, visit Microsoft'due south website to learn 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. Y'all 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 accept the all-time compatibility with Windows ten, endeavour these steps:

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

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