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
iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, 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 one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos always uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can 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 need them. Any organizational changes or edits you make are always kept up to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set up and use iCloud Photos.
The photos and videos that you keep in iCloud Photos use your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, make sure that you have enough space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much space you need and then upgrade your storage plan if necessary.
Import to your Mac
- Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac with a USB cable.
- Open the Photos app on your computer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you can choose an existing album or create a new one.
- Select
the photos you want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
- 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:
- Update to the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.5.1 or later.
- Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your PC with a USB cable.
- 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 or Allow 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 need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch before you import to your PC.
When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.
If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows 10, try these steps:
- On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
- Tap Camera, then tap Formats.
- Tap Most Compatible. From now on, your camera will create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.
Visit Microsoft's website to learn how to import photos using Windows 7 or Windows 8.
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Published Date: June 17, 2022
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#1 How to transfer videos from PC to iPhone with iTunes?
#2 How to import video from PC to iPhone without iTunes?
#3 How to send videos from PC to iPhone over the air?
#4 How to transfer videos from PC to iPhone using iCloud?
How to transfer videos from PC to iPhone with iTunes?
I am going to take a long trip so I would like to send some videos to my iPhone X to kill time on vehicles. Anyone could give me the simplest way to complete that?
- Question from An iPhone User
iPhone is a good video player. You could download thousands of movies from iTunes Store. It would be very convenient to enjoy them with Wi-Fi connected at home, but if you are on the journey or want to get videos on computer that not from iTunes Store to iPhone, you need to transfer files from PC to iPhone. You could get 4 methods in the following content to send videos to iPhone with/without iTunes or over the air.
#1 How to transfer videos from PC to iPhone with iTunes?
You might have purchased movies with iTunes but do you know that iTunes could also be used to send large video files to iPhone? You could have 2 ways to sync videos from PC to a computer or transfer videos from computer to any apps like VLC player on iPhone.
Method 1. Sync videos/folder to iPhone with iTunes
1. Launch iTunes on a Windows computer and locate the videos or folder on computer.
2. Click File in iTunes > select Add File to Library >select the videos on your computer
3. Connect iPhone to computer with USB cable.
4. Click the phone-shape icon to manage your iPhone and select Movies in the sidebar.
5. Check Sync Movies, then select the movies you want and click Sync at the bottom.
※Tips: You could find those videos in Videos app or Apple TV app. Every time you sync videos in this way would erase the movies you have synced last time so that you’d better transfer videos from iPhone to PC before using iTunes.
Method 2. Transfer videos from computer to any player on iPhone
If you have a player like VLC on iPhone, you can send large video files to iPhone in a shorter time.
1. Launch iTunes on a Windows computer and locate the videos or folder on computer.
2. Click the phone-shape icon to manage your iPhone and click File Sharing in the sidebar.
3. Select VLC (you could also choose another player). Drag your movies from folder to the box or click Add to add videos to VLC.
※Tips: You could find those videos in VLC. If you want to save that videos from iPhone to another computer, you could enter File Sharing in the same way, select the movies and click Save at the bottom.
#2 How to import video from PC to iPhone without iTunes?
Feel iTunes works so slow? You need the professional tool FoneTool. It is the fastest iPhone data transfer and iTunes alternative.
★ Safely Transfer: You could always use FoneTool without misgivings because it would do nothing with the videos already on your iPhone.
★ Widely Compatible: It supports the latest iPhone 14/13/12/11, iPad 8/Air 4, and also supports iOS 16/15.
Step 1. Download FoneTool and connect iPhone to PC with USB cable.
Step 2. Select Phone Transfer on the left pane. And move cursor on the PC to iPhone. Then click Start Transfer.
Step 3. Click the plus icon to add videos from computer.
Step 4. Check the files in the box and click Start Transfer.
#3 How to send videos from PC to iPhone via Dropbox?
Cloud drives like OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox could help you easily share video via all kinds of platforms so you can transfer videos to your iPhone over the air.
1. On your PC, download and install Dropbox. Get an account and sign into it.
2. Select the videos on computer and then click Upload.
3. On your iPhone, download Dropbox from App Store and then download videos to your iPhone.
※Tips: You need to install Dropbox on iPhone in App Store to receive the videos. Using Dropbox to transfer videos from computer to iPhone requires good Internet or it would take much time to upload or download videos.
#4 How to transfer videos from PC to iPhone using iCloud?
iCloud is a premium service for iPhone users to sync data on all iOS devices. You can upload your videos to iCloud and then you can download the videos to your iPhone or iPad.
Steps to transfer videos using iCloud:
1. On your computer, open your browser and go to icloud.com.
2. Sign in the Apple ID of your iPhone and then select Photos.
3. Click the Upload Button in the upper-left corner.
4. Select the videos you want to transfer from computer.
5. On your iPhone, open Settings > tap your profile > select iCloud.
6. Switch on iCluod Photos to download videos to your iPhone.
Conclusion
Now you have known 3 ways of how to transfer videos from PC to iPhone with iTunes. You could quickly import large videos to iPhone when it is needed.
FoneTool is the best video transfer for iPhone. It is fast and very easy to use and you can also use it to put mp4 on your iPad.
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