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 lot can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You can also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Apply 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 devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you employ iCloud Photos, you lot don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos e'er uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can continue total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve infinite with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits yous make are always kept up to date beyond all your Apple devices. Learn how to set upward and utilise iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that y'all keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you lot turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you take enough space in iCloud to shop your entire collection. You can see how much infinite you need 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 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 you lot see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Reckoner, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," y'all 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 finish, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make certain that y'all 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 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 lot to Trust This Reckoner, 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 have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full 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. Yous tin can add together these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you 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 at present on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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