There are many ways of transferring photos from smartphone to PC and most require using cloud services such as Google Drive or DropBox, or programs to be installed or connected via USB cable. Now Microsoft offers a super fast method to transfer photos from Android (Samsung, Huawei and others) or iPhone smartphones that does not require you to install anything and that takes advantage of the Windows 10 Photos application which is becoming increasingly full of functions.
The Photos application is already installed on all Windows 10 PCs (just look for it from the Start menu) and not only allows you to view photos on the internal disk or in OneDrive, but also to create albums and videos of images with 3D effects).
With the WiFi transfer function, it is now also possible to quickly copy the photos found in the phone and bring them to the computer to keep them safely and to organize them in albums and photo stories.
To transfer photos from smartphone to Windows 10 PC it is only necessary to install the Your phone app, as explained in the guide on How to Connect the Phone to Windows 10 with Android and iPhone . Once the app is installed, if PC and smartphone are connected to the same wifi network, photos can be transferred by following the following steps.
Then open the Photos app, press on the three dots at the top right to go to the settings. In the Settings screen, scroll all the options to the bottom and activate the one under the word Preview . Finally close the app and reopen it to get started.
To transfer photos from your phone to your computer, you need to open Photos and click on the main interface on the Import button at the top right. You will find a new option to click " from mobile device to Wifi ", the one to use to start the file transfer, which shows a QR code on the screen. On your phone, open the My Phone app, press the Send Photos button and point the camera at the QR code to pair. Once the recognition has taken place, you can select the photos of the smartphone and send them to the computer.
The photos are transferred fairly quickly, they immediately appear inside an Album in the Photos app and are saved on the PC in Pictures in a folder called " Imported From Photos Companion ". Even if the function is previewed, the Photo Companion app and the transfer of photos to PC did not give any problems, providing a fast and really simple method (which does not require any Microsoft account) to pass one or many photos from the mobile phone.
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