hey guys this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and welcome to another video and today
we are going to make your life just that little bit easier because we are going to talk about a
common problem that people have so much and let me tell you what that problem is straight away
and you might have experienced it have you ever tried to move any files from your phone over to a
computer or an external hard drive and found it to be an absolute nightmare one of the reasons
that you might need to transfer your data away from your device might be that your phone storage
is full and you might need to download a film for going on holiday quickly or you might need
to download a really important app right there and the only way to do that would be to delete
some precious photos or videos from your device to never be seen again so in this video today
i will show you some really quick easy methods on how you can transfer your data
your photos or videos from your device over to an external hard drive before we continue though
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over the years transferring your media from an iphone to an external hard drive
has been an absolute nightmare for iphone users it's not been easy
it's been tricky and it's actually been quite difficult and even with the use of a computer
this could actually be quite difficult and something like this should be nice and easy
to be able to transfer media from your iphone to an external hard drive or to a computer and
with our first method we want to introduce you to something which makes this extremely easy
and makes it have no hassle at all so let me introduce you to the app called mobile trans
while there are several other options for transferring data from your iphone to an
external hard drive mobile trans is by far the most popular this invention was geared towards
simplifying the process of transferring data from an iphone to another device and mobile
trans allows you to transfer iphone photos to an external hard drive with just a few clicks it can
also move 18 different types of data between 6 000 plus devices and including that what you
can do is you can transfer data from whatsapp from one device over to another nice and easily as well
you can also backup 18 plus types of data from android to iphone and then to pc and export photos
from phone to pc whether that be mac or windows the first thing of course is to make sure you get
your external hard drive and your iphone connected to that computer and then i will talk you through
the next few steps once your iphone and hardware are connected the first thing you'll need to do
is select phone transfer and then select export to computer from that drop down menu after you finish
the first step a window will appear that will list all the data types transferred from your iphone
choose the photos you want to transfer to the connected hard drive from the many available
options after that simply click the export button to continue a pop-up window will appear allowing
you to choose to save your iphone photos to the hard drive connected to your computer
after just a couple of minutes your photos will then be saved to that external hard drive and you
can view them there and mobile trans makes this really easy it makes it efficient and it makes
it quick to do that transfer but mobile trans is not the only option out there for people who want
to transfer their media from their phone to an external hard drive so let me talk you through
a few different options that you might want to have a look at and first is to use windows
using windows photos is one of the simplest ways to actually move photos and media from your ipad
or your iphone over to an external hard drive and all windows pcs have this built in and the process
is really simple so let me talk you through how exactly you would do it connect the iphone to the
pc with a usb cable then open the photos app once the connection is established the photos
application can be found in the start menu of your windows computer once the app has appeared click
on the import option in the top right corner the next step is to choose which images you want to
import check that the external hard drive you want to transfer the image to is connected to the pc
proceed with the import photos and select the external hard drive as the savings space to
start the transfer there we go that was nice and easy but for windows there's also a second option
as well and that is to use the file explorer to save your photos to an external hard drive so let
me talk you through the steps that you need to get this one done just like the previous methods the
first thing you need to make sure that you do is connect your iphone to the pc using that usb cable
next plug in the external hard drive to the computer then when you connect the iphone you
will receive a prompt asking you to approve the iphone inside the windows explorer go to pc and
select the apple's iphone internal storage from there you go to the dcim and this is where you'll
find all the images now just copy these images and paste them directly into that external hard drive
now icloud is one of the easiest ways to be able to copy your photos from your iphone
over to your external hard drive and it's a really simple way to do it so
just follow these steps to make sure you can copy your photos by using icloud first
you need to enable icloud photos on your phone and then go to the icloud site on your computer
the next step is to sign in with your apple id and click on the image section
now select as many photos as you want to download either change the download location
to your external device or download the images to your computer and then copy it to the drive
you of course need to make sure that you have a data connection for this to work and
of course all the photos that you download then from icloud will take up that amount of space
in your external hard drive but that is a really simple easy method and
we still have another method for you so let me show you what our next method is
the next option is to use a piece of software on your computer on a mac computer called
image capture and this allows you to copy your photos from your iphone over to your computer
in a similar way that you can do to using the windows photo app but it is just slightly
different so let me talk you through the steps you would need to do to make sure you could use
this first connect your iphone to your mac and you can do it by using either a dongle or a usb cable
just as you create the connection between your mac and iphone you'll receive a question asking if you
can trust the computer you might see this and you might not but make sure you go ahead and confirm
then make sure you browse the mac for the app called image capture then the app will open up
nice and quickly in the left portion of the image capture app make sure you just select
iphone and then within it you will see all the images next select the location where you want
to save the photos then select the photos and click on the import button once the data has
been imported you can then transfer the data to an external hard drive that again is a nice
simple method to be able to use image capture but what if you want to use the photos app
on a mac well let me talk you through the steps to use the photos app open the photos app on the
mac and connect your iphone and it will start showing the device in the sidebar you can then
import the data into the photo library and export the images to the external hard drive so that one
is really quick and only a couple of steps and might be one of the options you might want to
look at but what if you want to use something else well there is still another option for you as well
the option available to you would be to stick a hard drive or usb stick straight into your
iphone and move images over in that way one of the best options is sandisk as that has a
lightning connector on the usb and you can plug that straight into your computer and move your
photos over that way so online there are hundreds of different ones of these but it's good to go
with a quite a reputable brand and sandisk is one of the best brands out there and if you want to
do this all you have to do is then select the photos you want to move move them over to the
files app within the iphone and then save them on that external hard drive and it is that easy nice
and easy done in just a couple of minutes then you have your photos saved onto an external thumb
drive plugged directly in to the iphone without the use of a computer there you have it a load
of different options in this video for you to be able to save your media and photos from an iphone
to an external hard drive whether you have a pc or a mac and remember the first method that we showed
you which was mobile trans mobile trans helps you move all of your data over nice and quickly
and as well as that you can move your whatsapp chats from one device to another from android to
iphone or vice versa and of course you can do backups as well so if this is something that you
like the sound of then go and have a look at the mobile trans website by clicking the link in the
description below if you enjoyed this video then why not give it a like and of course subscribe to
the mobile trans channel as well so make sure you don't miss out on any of the videos that we have
coming up in the next couple of weeks and if you do all of that i will see you in the next video