Transfer Photos from iPhone to computer
Mac OS X - July 10th, 2010 - 6 Comments
You can easily transfer Photos from your iPhone to your computer, the process is very similar whether you are on a Mac or PC. Regardless of what OS you are using, you’ll need your iPhone, the included USB cable, and a computer to plug it into.
Transfer Photos from iPhone to Mac
The easiest way to transfer pictures from your iPhone to your Mac is through Preview
- Plug your iPhone into your Mac
- Launch Preview
- From the File menu navigate down and select “Import from iPhone…”
- Select “Import All” to get all the pictures, otherwise individually select pictures and click ‘Import’
- Look in your ~/Pictures/ folder for the photos from your iPhone
You can also transfer pictures to your Mac with iPhoto or Image Capture, which is just as easy.
Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC
On a Windows PC the easiest way to get pictures from your iPhone is to just use Windows Explorer, but there’s two ways to go about this:
- Plugin your iPhone to the computer without iTunes running
- Wait for a popup asking you what you want to do with the device
- Select “View Content”
- Find your photos through the folders that are displayed
- Copy in Windows as usual
If your iPhone is already plugged into your PC, you can try this method:
- Plugin your iPhone to your PC
- Open “My Computer”
- Find your iPhone, it will appear as any other camera would
- Open iPhone to find your Photos
- Select the pictures you want to copy to your computer and copy/paste them into the desired location on your PC
The Windows approach treats the iPhone more like a file system, but if you feel like it you can also use your favorite photo importing application to pull the pictures from the device as well.
You can also sync your photos using just iTunes on either Mac OS or Windows but that is more for iPhone backup purposes.
Why would you not just drag & drop from the iPhone ?
Transferring photos to a Mac is transferring photos to a PC. Get it right people.
This is what I’ve been doing for years. Super fast and efficient.
They need to build upon this program and integrate it with itunes to make photo files able to be transfered both ways.
Kindof like how you can see your pages and apps in itunes, they really need to make a desktop viewer of your iphone’s photos. Drag and drop into albums, create albums, etc. Expecting people to sync through iphoto or build folders and sync those is seriously absurd.
That should be their next major priority, not a iOS update, but a serious overhaul in how you manage its files with itunes.
Does anyone know if the Preview import also works for transferring HD videos from the iphone4?
I haven’t tried it for iPhone 4 yet but both Preview and Image Capture will download the movies from 3GS
Yes, Preview can import HD videos from the iPhone.