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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your computer. Yous can also make your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Apply iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Employ iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, upward to appointment, and bachelor automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you employ iCloud Photos, y'all don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, total-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save infinite with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you demand them. Any organizational changes or edits you lot make are e'er kept up to appointment across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before yous plow on iCloud Photos, brand certain that yous have enough space in iCloud to store your entire drove. You can encounter how much infinite you need and and so 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 continued 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 you see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Figurer, tap Trust to go on.
  5. Cull where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you lot can choose 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. Wait for the process to cease, 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 figurer 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 12.5.1 or later on.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact 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 request you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If you take iCloud Photos turned on, you 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. Y'all can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

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

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Camera, so 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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