When our iPhone starts working erratically, consuming too much battery, apps closing…it’s a clear symptom that our device needs a tune-up, that is, we need to erase all its contents, restore it from scratch and use it again, all the applications we had before.
If you use iCloud to keep a copy of all the photos and videos you take from your iPhone and iPad, you don’t need to copy everything from the Photos app to your Mac, but if you don’t , here’s how to do it. from iPhone to Mac.
Consider Hiring iCloud
When using iCloud, all the photos and videos that we take with our iPhone or iPad are downloaded, in their original size and resolution, to iCloud while a lower resolution image is stored on our terminal in order to save space on our device.
In this way, if we copy all the photos and videos stored on our device, we will not copy the images and videos in their original resolution, we will copy the images and videos in a lower resolution.
If we want to access the original resolution of videos and photos, we will be forced to visit the iCloud.com website and download all the content to our device.
When the iCloud storage space is full, we can download the photos and delete them to make room for new photos and videos that we take with our device.
AirDrop
The AirDrop function, available on Macs and iOS devices, is the fastest and easiest method to transfer content from our iPhone or iPad to the Mac, as long as both are compatible.
AirDrop is available from iOS 8 on the following iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models:
- iPhone: iPhone 5 or later
- iPad: iPad 4th generation or later
- iPad Pro: iPad Pro 1st generation or later
- iPad Mini: iPad Mini 1st generation or later
- iPod Touch: iPod Touch 5th generation or later
AirDrop is available from OS X Yosemite 10.10 on the following Mac models:
- MacBook Air from mid-2012 or later
- MacBook Pro from mid-2012 or later
- iMac from mid-2012 or later
- Mac Mini from mid-2012 or later
- Mac Pro from mid-2013 or later
If both our Mac and our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch are compatible with the AirDrop function, to send the content through this Apple proprietary technology we must follow the steps that I show you below:
- First, we open the Photos app and select all the photos and videos we want to transfer to the Mac.
- Then we click on the share button and wait for the name of our Mac to appear among the options that appear.
- To send the content to the Mac, we just have to click on the name of our Mac and sit down to wait, especially if the number of photos and videos is very high.
Pictures
Another interesting option that we have at our disposal to transfer photos from iPhone to Mac is to use the Photos application. This option is ideal if the number of images that we want to transfer, as well as the number of videos, is very high.
The macOS Photos app mirrors the iOS app. Through the macOS Photos application we can access all the content stored in iCloud that we have created with our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
However, it doesn’t just work through iCloud. We can also use it to extract all images and videos stored on our device.
Using this process is much faster than using AirDrop because it is done through a cable and not wirelessly. Below we will show you all the steps to be able to transfer all content from Photos app to the Mac with Photos app.
- We connect the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the Mac using the USB charging cable and open the app Pictures on Mac.
- The application will display a screen that invites us to import pictures and videos that we have stored on our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
If this message does not appear, click on the device that we have connected to the Mac located in the left column.
- Next, we need to confirm that we are the legitimate owners of the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and it will prompt us to enter the unlock code for our iOS device.
- If, in addition, he asks us if we want trust this team. To this question, we answer by clicking on Confidence.
- Then we have to select the folder where we want to import the content of our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch by clicking on the drop-down menu located just to the right of Import to:
- To start the process, we must select all the photos and videos we want. Or we can click Import all new photos so that it copies all the photos and videos we have taken since the last time we did this process.
Obviously, if you have never done it, it will import all the images and videos from our device.
iFunbox
There are many third-party applications that allow us to manage the information that we have stored on our iPhone or iPad. However, all are paid. The only one that we can download completely free of charge and that you have probably known for years is iFunbox.
iFunbox is an application with which we can access the applications installed on our device, photos, books, voice notes… and manage all this information.
In the case of photographs, if we want to copy them to our Mac, we must go to the left column and click on the Camera section, Camera1, Camera2… depending on how many photos we have stored on our device.
To copy them to our Mac, we just have to select the images and drag them to the directory where we want to store them. This application is also available for Windows.
If you have an old Mac and one of the methods that I have explained in this article does not work, the solution that iFunbox offers us is one of the best that we have at our disposal. The same thing happens if our iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is older than the humidity.
And I say this because through the iFunbox page we can not only download the latest version available, but also a version released in 2015 and compatible with Macs and older iPhones and iPads.
You can download iFunbox for Mac and Windows via this link.
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