The latest models of iPhone They arrive with increasingly larger storage, with memories of up to 256 GB, which allows us to store hundreds and hundreds of photographs and videos in our multimedia galleries. Although not all users can access the most advanced versions of the smartphone Manzana. Therefore, it is essential to store a good part of our captures on our computer to free up space on our iPhone. Of course, not all users know the different possibilities available to them to transfer their images to the PC; Therefore, we tell you until 4 ways to transfer photos from iPhone to our personal computer.
1. Transfer photos from iPhone to Windows PC
The most common situation among the average user is to have a Windows PC. Thus, to pass the photos from our iPhone to a computer with Windows 7, 8 or 10, we just have to connect the smartphone through a lightning cable, since the Microsoft operating system will recognize the iPhone as a external storage drive.
- Connect your iPhone to PC using a Lightning cable.
- Go to My Computer and look for the “iPhone” or “[your name] iPhone” drive.
- Already inside the iPhone we must look for a folder called DCIM (Digital Camera Images), in which we will find a series of subfolders.
The photographs are stored in all these subfolders, so we will have to search for the images that we want to transfer to the PC, in the destination folder that we deem appropriate.
2. Transfer photos from iPhone to Mac with the Photos app
Users specialized in image or video editing (or Apple fans) are likely to find have a Mac as a personal computer instead of a Windows PC. In this case, the most convenient option is to use the application Photos; We tell you how to use it.
- Connect your iPhone to Mac with the Lightning cable.
- Access the Photos app from your Mac and access your smartphone.
- Select the photos you want to transfer to your Mac using Import.
Images transferred to Mac will be stored in different folders depending on dates or locations.
3. Swipe photos with the Windows 10 Microsoft Photos app
The latest version of Microsoft's operating system has its own application to manage photos on your mobile devices. Is about Windows 10 Microsoft Photos, with which we can transfer our images from our iPhone to the PC in a very similar way to the Mac system. To do this, the first thing we must check is that we have the latest version of iTunes in the computer.
- Connect your iPhone to your computer using the Lightning cable.
- Open the Microsoft Photos app and look for Import in the top right corner.
- Select the photos you want to transfer to the PC and click continue to copy the photos.
4. Transfer photos to the cloud: iCloud, Google Photos or Dropbox
Although if we prefer to transfer our photos to our PC without having to worry about cables or applications, we can always trust the cloud services. In this case we have up to three systems: iCloud from Apple, Google Photos from Google and Dropbox. We can also opt for other services, although those mentioned are the most popular and offer the best results.
To download photos from iCloud we just have to go to the Photos application and transfer the images we want from Photos Streaming on the iPhone. Of course, if we prefer to access them through the iCloud Photo Library, the photos will be downloaded automatically as long as we are connected Wifi.
With Google Photos installed on both devices, just we will have to wait for its pertinent synchronization between systems. Once the synchronization has finished, we will have our photos downloaded to the PC.
Finally, from Dropbox we can enable the function Photo Sync in the application of iOS, after accessing Photos – Activate uploads from camera. Once the synchronization has finished, we will have the photos downloaded to our PC.
