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

With the Photos app and a USB cablevision, you tin can transfer photos and videos to your reckoner. You can likewise make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Utilize iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, upwardly to date, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from ane iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can proceed total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salvage space with device-optimized versions instead. Either fashion, you tin can download your originals whenever y'all need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are ever kept upwardly to engagement across all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you take enough infinite in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can run into how much space you demand and so upgrade your storage program 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 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 y'all come across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Adjacent to "Import to," you can choose an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos you lot want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to end, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Yous tin can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer 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.i or later on.
  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 lot see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust or Permit to continue.

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

If you lot have iCloud Photos turned on, y'all need to download the original, total 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 be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If y'all want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device accept the best compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:

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

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