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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your calculator. Y'all can too make your photos available on all of 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 devices, on iCloud.com and fifty-fifty on your PC. When you lot use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. Yous can continue full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve infinite with device-optimised versions instead. Either way, you lot can download your originals whenever you demand them. Any organisational changes or edits you make will always be kept upwardly to date across all of your Apple tree devices. Discover out how to prepare and employ iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you lot keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Earlier turning on iCloud Photos, brand sure you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You tin see how much infinite you need and so upgrade your storage programme 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 calculator.
  3. The Photos app shows an Import screen with all of the photos and videos that are on your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't announced automatically, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you encounter a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to proceed.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos to. Next to "Import to", you tin choose an existing anthology or create a new 1.
  6. Select the photos yous want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait until the process has finished, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make certain you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.five.1 or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear on to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If y'all see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Let to continue.

Then visit Microsoft'due south website to find out how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows 10.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, y'all'll demand to download the original, full-resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch before importing to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some of them may appear the wrong manner upwards in the Windows Photos app. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

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

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

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