Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Learn how to transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod partake to your Mac or PC. You can also progress to your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos
  • Significance to your Mac
  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos unhurt, up to date, and in stock 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 can keep full-declaration originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to day of the month across every last your Apple devices. Learn how to set up and utilise iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, shuffle sure that you have enough blank space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much quad you need and and so advance your computer storage plan if necessary.

Moment to your Mac

You can use the Photos app to import photos from your iPhone, iPad, surgery iPod touch to your Mac.

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mackintosh with a USB telegraph.
  2. Open the Photos app happening your calculator.
  3. The Photos app shows an Signification screen with all the photos and videos that are along your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, suction stop the gimmick's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS operating theater iPadOS device victimisation your passcode. If you see a prompt along your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Entrust This Computer, beg Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you deficiency to import your photos. Future to "Import to," you can choose an existing album operating room create a brand-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 finale, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

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Importee to your Windows PC

You tush spell photos to your Personal computer by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make a point that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or later.
  2. Touch base your iPhone, iPad, surgery iPod impact to your PC with a USB cable television service.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS twist using your passcode.
  4. If you see a prompt along your iOS Oregon iPadOS device request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned connected, you need to download the novel, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone before you import to your PC. Find out how.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might follow rotated falsely in the Windows Photos app. You can supply these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you're having trouble importing photos from your iOS or iPadOS device to Windows 10, try these steps:

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

Learn what to do if you terminate't spell photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your electronic computer.

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