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

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

  • Use iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Apply 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 even your PC. When you apply iCloud Photos, you lot don't demand to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or salvage space with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, yous can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept upward to date across all your Apple devices. Larn how to set upwardly and utilise iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go on in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Earlier you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. Yous can run across how much space you demand 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 cablevision.
  2. Open the Photos app on your reckoner.
  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'southward 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 Reckoner, tap Trust to go along.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can choose an existing album or create a new ane.
  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, then 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 y'all have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.v.i 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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

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 yous 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 correct orientation.

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

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

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