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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can as well make your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Utilise iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Utilize 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 even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from ane iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Y'all can go on full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you lot tin can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to fix and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that y'all have plenty space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much space you lot 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 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 yous see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking y'all to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where yous want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can choose an existing album 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. Wait 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 computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that you take the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If y'all see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Let to continue.

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

If you take iCloud Photos turned on, yous need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact 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 lot tin 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 take the best compatibility with Windows ten, endeavor these steps:

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

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