How To Upload Images From Iphone To Mac

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It's amazing how quickly my 64 GB iPhone fills up with just the photos. Especially Live Photos. The best thing you can do for your photos is to enable cloud fill-in. I recommend using iCloud Photograph Library – it'due south congenital right in. If yous're looking for a completely free option – Google Photos is too an awesome culling.

But I besides like to take a local backup of all my photos. And because my Mac is the 128 model (never again), I can't really dump xl gigs of photos on at that place. That's where my i TB external hard drive comes in. I periodically support my photos to the external hard bulldoze (last time I did was right earlier installing iOS 13). If you lot want to exercise the same, follow the process beneath. Windows users tin cheque this post.

Footstep 1: Connect Your External Difficult Drive To Your Mac

First, connect the hard drive to your Mac and make sure it shows up in the Finder's sidebar. Copy something to the difficult bulldoze from the desktop only to make sure information technology works. If it doesn't and then it might non be formatted to apply with a Mac (nigh external hard drives aren't). If that'south the case, you'll need to outset reformat the hard drive to Fatty format.

Step two: Connect Your iOS Device To Your Mac

The first thing yous demand to practice is connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using the USB to Lightning connector you got with your device.

Step 3: Launch Image Capture

Paradigm Capture on Mac is ane of the most underrated utilities. To launch it, search for "Image Capture" using Spotlight search (using Cmd + Space shortcut).

After you launch information technology, find your iOS device in the left sidebar and click on it.

You'll now encounter a list of all the photos on your iPhone or iPad correct at that place.

You lot can either employ the keyboard shortcut Cmd + A to select all or just individually check mark all the images you want to import.

Step four: Select Destination

By default, photos volition be imported in the Pictures folder. Click the driblet-downwards, and select "Other".

Now select the binder in the external hard drive as a source.

Step 5: Click Import

Click the "Import" button and wait until the transfer is washed. If the external hard drive is USB two.0 spec, and you lot have a lot of photos, this could accept more than just a couple of minutes.

Alternatively, y'all can employ iMazing, which makes it very easy to transfer photos to an external hard drive without iCloud, iTunes, or Finder in macOS Catalina.

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This mail was updated on Feb 21, 2020.