How to transfer photos from iPhone to computer

Transferring Photos from iPhone to Computer/Laptop. 6 ways

The iPhone is capable of taking high-quality photos, so the device is often used as a full-fledged replacement for a digital camera. To avoid clogging up your phone’s memory, you should regularly transfer your photos to your computer’s hard drive.

Some users may have some difficulties at this stage, since the process of transferring photos from iPhone to computer or laptop requires a certain knowledge of the phone and its interaction with the PC. Nevertheless, there are quite a few ways.

How to transfer multiple photos from your iPhone to your Mac

Connect your iPhone to your Mac using the cable.

In the dialog box on your smartphone, click Trust This Computer and enter the unlock code.

On a Mac, launch the Photos app and select the connected smartphone in the sidebar.

Now you can select the photos you want from your iPhone and specify where to import them to your Mac.

This method is more convenient when you want to view photos and select a large number of photos to transfer. Also, copying over cable will go faster than with AirDrop.

How to Transfer Windows Photos to Your iPhone or iPad

If you have not previously synced your device with iTunes, you will not be able to use the Wi-Fi wireless sync feature in iTunes and will need to connect your iPhone with a cable. First of all, make sure that you have installed the latest version of iTunes on your computer in order to proceed with this operation.

• Connect your iPhone or iPad to your Windows computer using the original USB-Lightning cable (or USB-USB C) and open “iTunes” on your computer.
• Click on the iPhone or iPad icon located right next to the Music tab, as shown in the screenshot below.

Go to your device’s iTunes page

You need to turn on photo sync

Select the folder where your photos are stored

Now, if you go to the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad, you can access all of the photos that you chose to sync on your PC.

If you have photos in HEIC format, you may find this article on how to open it helpful.

However, connecting your iPhone or iPad to your computer by wire is slowly becoming a thing of the past. If you don’t want to rely on a USB-Lightning cable for content, you can enable Wi-Fi syncing in iTunes for wireless data transfer. However, for this to work, your PC and iPhone / iPad must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Transferring Photos from iPhone to PC

To move photos from iPhone to PC you can use the built-in file manager. “Explorer”. The connection of the mobile device will be performed with the help of the USB-cable or its high quality analogue.

Connect your iPhone to your computer and unlock it. In case a window appears on the screen asking “Trust this computer?”, tap “Trust”, and then enter the security code-password.

• 100APPLE. Photos and screenshots taken directly on the iPhone and now stored in its memory;
• 100CLOUD. Images downloaded from the Internet, third-party apps, and cloud storage. If you have more than one Apple device and synchronization is enabled between them, even those image files that were downloaded from another device can be stored here;
• 101CLOUD. Synchronized images from other Apple devices, if you have any. For example, if you have an iPhone and an iPad, the files contained in the 100APPLE folder on the former will be in 101CLOUD on the latter, and vice versa.

Note: The first part of the folder names (numbers) may vary upwards, but they are always ordinal numbers, starting at 100.

• Open another “Explorer” window and navigate to the location where you will transfer the files.
• Highlight an individual photo with the mouse and while holding down the “CTRL” key (for pointing) or the “SHIFT” key (for range selection) or all of them at once with the “CTRLA” combination.
• Move them to the adjacent file manager window opened in step one of this instruction, or press “CTRLC” to copy, navigate to the destination folder, and press “CTRLV” to paste.

There are other methods of transferring photos from iPhone to PC, and iTunes analogues, among them iTools, are particularly effective in this task. If you do not want to connect your devices to each other via USB-cable, the easiest and most convenient solution would be to use cloud storage facilities. Not only the company iCloud, but also Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. Д. We have discussed all the available options in more detail in a separate article.

Despite the fact that iTunes does not provide the ability to transfer photos from iPhone to computer, this task is solved quite simply. You just need to use the built-in Windows “Explorer.

How to transfer photos from computer to iPhone?

Run iTunes on your computer and connect your iPhone to it via USB-cable or Wi-Fi sync. Once the device is detected by the program, click on the icon of your gadget in the upper area of the window.

In the left area of the window, go to the “Photos” tab. On the right side, you will need to check the box next to “Synchronize”. Itunes suggests copying photos from the standard “Pictures” folder by default. If this folder contains all the pictures you want to copy to your gadget, then leave the “All folders” box checked by default.

If you need to transfer not all the images from the standard folder to the iPhone, but selected ones, then check the “Selected folders” item, and below check the boxes next to the folders in which the images will be copied to the device.

If the pictures on your computer are not in the standard “Pictures” folder, then click on the currently selected folder near “Copy pictures from” to open Windows Explorer and select a new folder.

If in addition to images you need to transfer to the gadget and video recordings, then in the same window, do not forget to put a check mark near the item “Include in the synchronization of video”. When all the settings are set, all that remains is to run the synchronization by clicking on the “Apply” button.

Once synchronization is complete, you can easily disconnect your gadget from your computer. All images will be successfully uploaded to your iOS device in the default Photos app.

How to Transfer iPhone Photos to Mac

Transferring photos from iPhone to Mac is easy enough. To do this, follow the simple instructions:

• Connect your iPhone to your Mac with Lightning.
• Launch the Photos app on your Mac.

Unlock iPhone to start importing photos.

Select the folder where all the photos will be downloaded to.

Click the Import button in the upper right-hand corner.

Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I connected my iPhone to my computer with a wire. This is probably the first time I have ever needed the Lightning to USB-A cable. We have recommended you to buy this kind of gadget more than once. Take it while the dollar exchange rate allows.

Where do you store your Photos files on your Mac?

Once you have finished importing photos from iPhone to Mac, all the photos will be in the Photos app. You will not be able to transfer files to an external drive.

To find Photos application files on your Mac, you will need:

• Open Finder on Mac.
• Next, click on your account icon to the right (the house icon).
• Then go to Pictures and find the Photos Library file.Photoslibrary.
• Right click on it and click Show Package Contents.
• Next, open the Originals (Masters) folder where your photos will be stored.

Click Show Package Contents and browse the photo folders.

All files are sorted into folders, don’t let that confuse you. There is one more important nuance. All the photos are in the original. If you used the built-in photo editor on your iPhone, changes in this folder will not appear. Be careful.

Important: Do not change the names of folders and applications under any circumstances. Don’t interfere with the folder structure and sequence within the Photos Library package.Photoslibrary. This can negatively affect the Photo app on your Mac. You risk losing all of the photos on your computer.

Transferring data from the iPhone’s internal memory to a PC is actually a fairly simple task. The point is that the internal memory of the iPhone (unlike Android smartphones) is immediately recognized by Windows as a portable device, such as a digital camera. So you can easily open it with Windows Explorer and copy image files.

To transfer photos from your iPhone to your Windows computer, you’ll need:

• A USB cable for the iPhone (Lightning-to-USB);
• An active Wi-Fi connection to which the PC and iPhone are connected;
• Itunes is at least version 12.5.1.

Synchronizing iPhone with PC via Wi-Fi

To avoid messing around with wires that like to get lost and transferred, you can establish a connection using Wi-Fi-direct.

But for the first synchronization, a USB cable is still needed. Connect the gadget via cable, authenticate and open the iTunes app. In the interface we need to select our device in the left menu, and in the “Browse” tab go to “Options”. Here we need to activate the function “Synchronize this iPhone via Wi-Fi”.

You can also connect the synchronization through the iPhone itself. Open “Settings”, then “Basic” section, and there the subsection “Synchronization with iTunes via Wi-Fi”.

From now on, the files will be automatically copied to the PC everytime we connect both devices (desktop and smartphone) to the same Wi-Fi network. A message about it will hang in the notification bar of your smartphone.

Copying and syncing media files for your iPhone is not difficult. But in order not to lose important photos, choose one type of copying: either via cloud storage or iTunes. One kind of synchronization excludes the other. So, if you first copied files through iTunes, and then activated “iCloud Photo”, the system will prompt you to delete the data synchronized with iTunes. Each type has its disadvantages. When using iCloud remember that you can use only 5 Gb of cloud storage for free. But copying via iTunes ties you to one desktop. The choice, as always, is yours.