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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you tin can transfer photos and videos to your reckoner. You can also make your photos bachelor 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 available automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When you utilise iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Yous tin can go on full-resolution 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 yous brand are always kept upwardly to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to ready and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before yous turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that y'all take enough space in iCloud to shop your entire drove. Y'all can meet how much space you need and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch 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's proper noun in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If yous encounter a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you lot to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where yous want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can cull 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. Look for the process to finish, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You 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 12.5.1 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 lot run across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you lot to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Permit to go on.

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 on, y'all need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you lot import to your PC.

When you lot 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 correct orientation.

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows x, endeavor these steps:

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

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