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 can transfer photos and videos to your estimator. You can also make your photos bachelor 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 tree devices, on iCloud.com, and even your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You lot tin keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, you can download your originals whenever you lot need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept upward to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set up and apply iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that y'all proceed in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Earlier you plow on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. Yous tin can encounter how much space y'all demand and so upgrade your storage plan if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your reckoner.
  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 announced, click the device'south proper 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 yous to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to go along.
  5. Cull where y'all desire to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you tin can choose an existing album or create a new ane.
  6. Select the photos yous desire to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the procedure to finish, so disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

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

  1. Make certain that you have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.v.1 or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If you lot meet a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you lot to Trust This Computer, tap Trust or Allow to continue.

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

If y'all have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect earlier y'all import to your PC.

When you lot 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 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 Nigh Uniform. From at present on, your camera volition create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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