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

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your computer. You tin can too make your photos available on all 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, upwardly to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When yous employ iCloud Photos, you lot don't demand to import photos from one iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can continue full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either manner, you lot tin can download your originals whenever y'all demand them. Whatsoever organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to engagement across all your Apple devices. Learn how to prepare and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you go on in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you lot have enough infinite in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much space yous 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 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 see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Side by side to "Import to," you can cull an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos y'all desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to cease, and so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

Yous tin import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your calculator and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Make sure that yous have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.ane or afterward.
  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 Let to continue.

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

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 bear upon before you import to your PC.

When y'all import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can add together 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 best compatibility with Windows 10, endeavour these steps:

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

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