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. You can also 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, up to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When you employ iCloud Photos, you don't demand to import photos from one iCloud device to some other. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. Yous tin go along total-resolution originals on each of your devices, or relieve space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you tin can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits y'all make are always kept up to date across all your Apple tree devices. Learn how to ready and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that you proceed in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you lot have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You tin see how much space y'all need and and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on 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'south 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 request you to Trust This Estimator, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you desire to import your photos. Side by side to "Import to," you can choose an existing anthology 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 can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Brand certain that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.v.one or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your PC with a USB cablevision.
  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 Reckoner, tap Trust or Let 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 demand to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you lot import to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might exist rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the right orientation.

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows ten, try these steps:

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

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