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. Y'all tin also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Apply 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 available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When yous employ iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can proceed full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either style, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are e'er kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to set upwardly and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you plough on iCloud Photos, make certain that you have plenty space in iCloud to shop your entire collection. Yous 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 impact to your Mac with a USB cable.
  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 continued device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically announced, click the device's proper name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you lot 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. Next to "Import to," you lot tin 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, and then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Y'all tin can import photos to your PC past connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that you lot have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.five.1 or subsequently.
  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 you meet a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust or Permit to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on before you import to your PC.

When y'all import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If you lot desire to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the all-time compatibility with Windows 10, endeavor these steps:

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

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