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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you lot tin transfer photos and videos to your calculator. You lot can besides make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Utilise iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safety, upward to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple tree tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you utilise iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from i iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can go along full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salvage space with device-optimized versions instead. Either style, yous can download your originals whenever y'all demand them. Whatever organizational changes or edits yous make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Acquire how to set upward and apply iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you continue in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you lot lot plough on iCloud Photos, make sure that you take plenty infinite in iCloud to shop your entire collection. You lot can come across how much space yous need and and so upgrade your storage program if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on 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'due south proper noun in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you lot run beyond a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking yous to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to go on.
  5. Cull where y'all desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," yous can choose an existing album or create a new i.
  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 end, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You can import photos to your PC past connecting your device to your calculator and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Brand sure that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.ane or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 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 y'all to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust or Allow to go on.

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

If y'all accept iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, total resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before y'all 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. Y'all tin add together 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 10, endeavour these steps:

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

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