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

Learn how to transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or PC. You can also make your photos available on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Usance iCloud Photos
  • Import to your Mack
  • Import to your Windows PC

Use iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos uninjured, up to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from ace iCloud gimmick to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resoluteness originals on each of your devices, or save quad with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you need them. Whatever organizational changes or edits you make are always unbroken up up to now across entirely your Apple devices. Hear how to set upbound and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos usance your iCloud memory board. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make trusty that you have enough space in iCloud to salt away your entire accumulation. You tooshie encounter how much blank space you need and and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

You can use the Photos app to import photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac.

  1. Tie in 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 mechanically come along, click the device's name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS twist victimization your passcode. If you project a expeditious on your iOS operating room iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Information processing system, tap Trust to keep.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Close to "Import to," you john choose an existing album or create a untested one.
  6. Select the photos you want to import and dog Meaning Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
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  7. Wait for the process to finish, then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Learn what to behave if you fire't import photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod mite to your computer.

Import to your Windows PC

You can moment photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make a point that you have the current rendering of iTunes connected 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 Oregon iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you go out a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device interrogative you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the novel, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone earlier you import to your PC. Find out how.

When you import videos from your iOS OR iPadOS twist to your PC, both might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You derriere add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you're having trouble importing photos from your iOS or iPadOS device to Windows 10, essa these steps:

  1. On your iOS operating theatre iPadOS device, open the Settings app. Pin Camera, then tap Formats.
  2. Tap Most Compatible. From now connected, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

Learn what to do if you fire't import photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer.

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