How to Transfer Photos from iPhone or iPad to Mac
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Introduction
Transferring videos to your Mac can be useful for many reasons.
- Create a backup of your videos on your Mac.
- Edit you videos in an advanced editor.
- Share your videos on social media.
This guide will walk you though importing videos from your iOS device to your Mac.
1 Import Pictures and Videos Wizard
From The iOS Device
- Plug in your iOS device to your computer via the supplied Lightning cable.
- Authorize your PC to access your iOS device's Photos by tapping Allow.
From The Computer
- Click on the Spotlight icon.
- Type Image Capture in the Search bar.
- Click On Image Capture.
- On the left column in the Image Capture navigation pane, click on your Android device.
- Right click on the device and click Import Pictures and videos.
- Select the items you wish to import to your Mac.
- Ensure Review, organize, and group items to import is selected and hit Next.
As an alternate option, you can click Import All if you want to import all images and videos to your Mac.
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YesNoTransferring videos to your Mac can be useful for many reasons.
- Create a backup of your videos on your Mac.
- Edit you videos in an advanced editor.
- Share your videos on social media.
This guide will walk you though importing videos from your iOS device to your Mac.
From The iOS Device
- Plug in your iOS device to your computer via the supplied Lightning cable.
- Authorize your PC to access your iOS device's Photos by tapping Allow.
From The Computer
- Click on the Spotlight icon.
- Type Image Capture in the Search bar.
- Click On Image Capture.
- On the left column in the Image Capture navigation pane, click on your Android device.
- Right click on the device and click Import Pictures and videos.
- Select the items you wish to import to your Mac.
- Ensure Review, organize, and group items to import is selected and hit Next.
As an alternate option, you can click Import All if you want to import all images and videos to your Mac.