Taking photos with your smartphone is very convenient, in the meantime because with an iPhone you get nice photos, then because the phone is always at hand in your pocket or bag so we can shoot immediately in a few seconds. The only problem is that the photographs and images received via chat or via Facebook occupy space in the memory which, sooner or later, fills up to the point of running out.
Whichever phone you use, even if it is the most expensive and with the largest internal memory, you must always download the photos somewhere, so you can keep them safe, free the memory and be able to make new ones.
To download the photos of the mobile phone there are, today, various ways: transfer the images to a computer via cable, upload them online to a cloud space or use the WiFi synchronization app.
Below we show you all the methods we can use to download and transfer photos from an iPhone to a PC.
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1) Transfer photos from iPhone to PC via cable
Who has an iPhone can download photos from the phone and save them on the computer both using Windows 10 and using the iTunes program for PC in a simple and very fast.
From Windows 10 we can immediately access the internal memory of the iPhone by connecting the phone via USB cable, opening File Explorer -> This PC and clicking on the Apple iPhone device, which will appear in the Devices and units section.
Double click on the icon to open the iPhone's internal memory, then go to the Internal Storage folder -> DCIM -> 100Apple to immediately view all the photos taken with the iPhone, so that we can copy them to the computer disk.
If we want to avoid opening the folder, we can also right-click on the iPhone icon and use the Import images and videos option, thus saving all the new photos and videos on the Apple device in the chosen folder.
In the event that the PC does not immediately see the iPhone, it is better to download and install iTunes first (so as to install any missing drivers), then try again as seen above.
Alternatively, we can use iTunes to transfer photos : we connect the iPhone to the PC with the USB charging cable, we touch on the iPhone screen to authorize the computer, we open iTunes and we click on the phone symbol at the top to open the settings of the 'iPhone.
An iPhone tab will now open with an indication of the battery status, any iOS update to download and free memory space.
To transfer the photos we can use the Synchronize item now present at the bottom to start the synchronization (i.e. all the contents of the iPhone will be transferred to the computer).
Otherwise we can always open the Photos menu in the left bar (under the iPhone section of ... ) to view the photos taken and save them on the PC.
We can also make automatic synchronization by opening the iPhone settings (as seen above) and activating the items Synchronize automatically when iPhone is connected and Synchronize iPhone via WiFi .
2) Transfer photos from iPhone to PC via iCloud
Another very effective method to transfer iPhone photos to your computer is to take advantage of iCloud, which is the virtual space on the Internet with which Apple devices automatically synchronize when they are on WiFi.
First of all we activate iCloud on our iPhone: we open the Settings app and click on the Apple ID menu (usually the first one at the top).
at this point we insert the login credentials for our Apple account and, once obtained the access, click on iCloud among the various items present.
To synchronize all the photos, make sure that there is Yes next to the Photos app, otherwise click on it and activate the functionality by clicking on iCloud Photos .
Once this type of photo backup is activated, make sure to connect to a WiFi network with the iPhone in order to synchronize the device.
At the end let's go to a PC with Windows and download the iCloud client, available as a separate program from here -> iCloud for Windows .
After installing it on the computer, click on its icon and add the Apple account previously used also on the iPhone; to correctly synchronize the photos, make sure that the Photos item is active on the configuration window.
Now we will have access to all the photos via the client itself or by clicking on the iCloud icon, with a synchronized folder on the PC with all the latest photos.
3) App to transfer photos (also in WiFi)
After seeing how to transfer photos using the official methods supported by Apple, in this part of the guide I will instead show you the best apps with which to transfer photos from iPhone to PC, even without using the cable (i.e. in WiFi).
- Photo Transfer App : very simple and effective app to transfer photos from your device to your PC (and vice versa) using a simple website for synchronization.
- Simple Transfer : another very simple and useful app to transfer photos, it automatically detects PCs and other devices where you can save photos in WiFi.
- WiFi Photo Transfer : convenient app to transfer photos to any PC or Mac, just enter the IP address provided to access the internal memory.
- Data and Photo Transfer : complete app to transfer photos and other iPhone data to any PC, with an access and synchronization system within everyone's reach.
If iCloud does not satisfy us and we want to have more space for our photos, we recommend installing one of the other apps to synchronize photos via the Cloud, namely:
- Google Photos : infinite storage space for the default quality and full synchronization with the Google account.
- Amazon Photos : service linked to Amazon Prime with a good capacity and excellent online photo management system.
- Microsoft OneDrive : if we often use Microsoft accounts this is the ideal app, since it automatically synchronizes with the client included in Windows 10.
- Dropbox : parent of the cloud and photos automatically saved online, today offers little space but we can increase the capacity in a few simple steps.
- Mega : great app to save photos on the cloud space offered by Mega, with advanced encryption and space up to 50 GB.
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