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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, yous can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You lot 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 tree 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, total-resolution photos. Yous tin can keep total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either mode, you can download your originals whenever y'all need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to appointment across all your Apple devices. Larn how to set up and utilize iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go along in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you take enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. Y'all tin meet how much space yous demand and so upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to your Mac with a USB cablevision.
  2. Open the Photos app on your calculator.
  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 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 desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," y'all tin can choose an existing anthology or create a new ane.
  6. Select the photos y'all desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to terminate, and then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Y'all can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer 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.five.i or later.
  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 run into a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you lot to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Permit to continue.

And then, visit Microsoft'due south website to learn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you take iCloud Photos turned on, you need 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 exist rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You tin can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If you 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, and then tap Formats.
  3. Tap About Compatible. From now on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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