Transferring Your iPhone Photos to Your Computer

After taking a bunch of photographs with your iPhone, you’ll probably want to transfer them to your computer for any number of reasons:

  • Safekeeping After all, you’re less likely to lose your computer than your phone.

  • Backing up With your photos on your computer, you can back them up to an external hard drive or online backup service.

  • Organization Once your photos are on your Mac or Windows computer, it’s a lot easier to sort them into albums and tag them with people’s names.

Note

Like other digital cameras, your iPhone camera embeds information known as EXIF (exchangeable image file format) data in your images, which is viewable through most desktop photo editing and organization programs.

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