Copy/Transfer/Import photos from iPhone to Windows PC

There are multiple ways out there to copy or import photos from iTunes to Windows PC.I am going to show you all the methods to transfer/Copy the photos from your iPhone to a Windows PC.

Method 1. Using Email

If you have to Transfer/Copy just 5-10 few pictures from your iPhone you could attach them in a mail and send it to yourself which you could later access on your Windows PC after downloading the Email attachment on your Windows PC.

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Method 2. Import Photos from iPhone with Windows AutoPlay

When you connect your iPhone to computer.

Option 1: You may see an Autoplay window, click on Import pictures and videos

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Option 2: Click on Start button > Computer

See the Portable Devices section, right click on your iPhone icon and click Import pictures and videos option

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Enter tag name to tag these pictures (optional) and click Import button

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this will start importing pictures form iPhone to computer. You can check the Erase after importing check box if you don’t need picture in your iPhone after importing in your computer.

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These photos are by default transferred and saved to My Pictures folder.

If some of your photos didn’t import from your iPhone’s Camera Roll, you can either transfer the photos from iPhone to your computer using Windows Explorer or import the photos using software such as Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Method 3. Import photos using sync option in iTunes

You can download and install iTunes on your windows PC and connect your iPhone to the PC with USB cable.

Set up syncing
1. Open iTunes. Make sure that you have the latest version.
2. Connect the iOS device to your computer using the included USB cable.
3. Locate your connected device.

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4. After clicking on your iOS device, tabs appear on the left side of the iTunes window under Settings.

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5. Some tabs might not appear if you don’t have the corresponding content in your iTunes library. For example, if you don’t have any podcasts in your library, the Podcast tab won’t appear. Your tabs might include some or all of those listed below:

Summary: Features information about your device, options for backing up or updating your device, and accessibility settings.
Info: Sync your contacts and calendars.
Apps: Manage your apps and file sharing.
Music: Sync your music.
Movies: Sync your movies.
TV Shows: Sync your TV shows.
Podcasts: Sync your podcasts.
iTunes U: Sync your iTunes U courses.
Books: Sync your books and and PDF documents.
Audiobooks: Sync your audiobooks.
Tones: Sync your ring and other alert tones.
Photos: Sync your photos. Learn how to sync photos with iTunes.
On My Device: Shows you the music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, books, audiobooks, tones, and voice memos that are on your device.

6. You can turn on syncing for Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, Audiobooks, Tones, Photos, and Info. To turn on syncing, click the content type from the list under settings, then click the box next to Sync [content type]. If there’s a check in the box already, syncing is turned on for that tab. To turn off syncing, uncheck the box.

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Click on the sync button at the bottom to start syncing.

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As shown in the picture above you could also setup syncing on selected items by choosing selected playlists,artists,albums,and genres.

Note:- If you are syncing your iPod with iTunes, be careful because iPod can only be synced with one iTunes library and if you have synced your iPod with iTune on other computer the previous content synced from the other computer will be erased and replaced with the content from new computer.So select the option carefully when prompted.You could just transfer the purchases from iPod to PC by selecting Transfer Purchases.

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Before importing your media:

• Unlock your iOS device using your passcode, particularly if you’ve never synced your device with the computer before.
• Makes sure your iOS device trusts the computer you want to import your media onto.

copy photos from iPhone to Windows PC

Through Window Explorer, you can only import the photos in iPhone Camera Roll. While for the photos that saved on other Albums, or synced from iTunes library, you’ll need a professional iPhone photo transfer software.There are multiple software to transfer photos from iOS device to Windows PC But all of them have some limitation and some of them are paid.So I would rather use the one which has no limitation and open source free software. iFunbox is one them as this has so many great features and is free to use.Below are the links to download some of these iOS file management software.

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Download iMazing
CopyTrans Photo
AnyTrans
iFunbox

Features of iFunbox

1. A great File and App Management Tool for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch.It’s available on Windows and Mac OSX. It’s.It’s free.

2. Install iOS Apps from IPA package– It also allows you install apps with *.ipa files archieved from an App under development or cracked by you.

3. Import/Export Media Data- Managing video, music, photo and ringtone is never easier using iFunbox’s Quick Toolbox. Multiple files can be imported in a batch by file browing dailog or drag&drop. All video and photo in the Camera Roll can be exported by just one click, as well as movies, music and ringtone.

4. Use iPhone as an USB Flash Drive- In file browser view, the “General Storage” entry in the left-hand tree allows you store any kinds of file just like a handy USB flash drive. It operates like an USB flash drive but way more faster for file transfer. Files named with international charactors and sized larger than 2GB are all well supported.

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5. Explore Data in the App Sandbox- iOS apps store data in its sandbox for saving informations like user account, chat history, saved games, in-app purchase and etc. iFunbox provides an easy way to manipulate those data to clean the track of usage, backup messages of chats, cheat games and many more.

6. Total Control of the Native iOS File System- iFunbox helps you dig into the root file system of a jailbreak iOS device with quick browsing, instant file previewing and fast file searching. Customize spring board themes, modify carrier logo, clean junk files, config system services and diagnose system issues ., it is just the imagination limits what you can do with your iOS devices. Being a hacker of iOS device is never easier with iFunbox. iFunbox supports automatic conversion of bplist and mac png, makes file previewing much easier.