hey this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and in today's video we want to show you how
you can transfer some photos from an iphone to an external hard drive but before we want to show you
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lots of people ask us the question how can you transfer your photos from an iphone
to an external hard drive so that means you have them kept with you forever and you don't have to
put your photos onto cloud storage and one of the reasons you might want to have them on an external
hard drive is that sometimes you might not have access to wi-fi or mobile data to get them from
the cloud so let's jump straight into the video and show you how you can do this first of all
using your mac firstly you'll need to grab your external hard drive and connect it to your mac and
make sure it is available to find in the finder window first of all you'll need to make sure that
that hard drive is compatible with a mac so just go and grab any document or file and drag it over
to the hard drive and if it works then perfect it is compatible with a mac if not what you'll
need to do is go into the disk utilities and you'll need to format it to an fat file format
the next thing you'll need to do is of course grab your iphone and connect that to the mac
as well so make sure that you can get a really good usbc or usb to lightning cable and plug
that into the iphone and make sure it works and it is an official one as well so there
is no error when you are needing to transfer your files over to the external hard drive on the mac
when the ios device is plugged into the mac then image capture should open automatically and give
you a little list of the pictures that you have on your iphone but if it hasn't then all you need to
do is go to finder and you can search for image capture and open it that way when image capture
is opened like i mentioned before you will see all of the photos that you have captured on your
iphone or your ios device and here you can select the photos that you want to transfer
over to that external hard drive or if you want to select all of those photos select command a
and that will select every single photo that is in that image capture app the next thing is to select
a destination so where those photos will go from your iphone over to your mac and this is a really
important step because this is where you need to make sure you select the right place because by
default they will import to the pictures folder on your hard drive itself within the mac but
this is not what you want you want to make sure that you can change it so those files and photos
go to the external hard drive that you plugged into your mac earlier you can select that drop
down menu there and just select the external hard drive that you want to use once you've done that
all you need to do then is just select import and depending on how many photos you want to transfer
over it might take a couple of minutes it could take seconds but then those photos will have gone
from your iphone to an external hard drive using your mac the second part of this video is to show
you how you can do the exact same thing but this time with windows and lucky for us the ios device
and iphones do not always need a mac to be able to copy photos over from an iphone to an external
hard drive so if you have a windows pc then not to worry because we will show you how to do so
but what you will need to do is download itunes to make sure that your irs device is compatible with
your windows pc the first thing to do is go and launch that microsoft store and search for itunes
there and then once you find it you need to make sure it is downloaded to your windows pc and then
install it and then just make sure you accept all the terms and conditions that itunes asks you to
accept as you're installing this software and now that you have itunes installed onto your pc the
following steps should help you move those photos from your iphone over to your external hard drive
using your windows pc so make sure you follow each one of these steps you'll need to first
connect your phone to the computer with the aid of that lightning cable that plugs into the iphone
you then need to launch the photos app on your computer and then in the top right hand corner
what you'll see there is an import button and this is the thing that you need to select next
the next part is as simple as the other steps and what you need to do here is just go and select the
photos that you want to select to import to your windows pc or external hard drive and once you've
selected those photos just click continue when you select continue the process will start immediately
and again like the mac version depending on how many photos you have that you want to transfer
it could be done within minutes it could take half an hour it could take an hour it all depends on
the amount of photos that you're importing to your windows pc and remember do not unplug any
device while you're doing this because it a may corrupt some of the photos and b it might take
you back to the start of the process which could be quite time consuming and the final option that
we're going to give you on this video today is to show you how you can actually transfer photos
without using a mac or a pc and transferring them directly to an external hard drive from
your iphone you might be sat there wondering is this something that is actually possible but yes
it is possible because you can get external hard drives that plug straight into your iphone and
you can do the transfer process this way there are lots of different companies that do these external
hard drives that plug straight into the iphone and sandisk is one of the most popular but remember if
this is something that you want to do you need to make sure that your iphone is running ios 8
or above and i imagine that is almost every single one of you that's watching
this video so you should have no worries but let me show you how you can do this
make sure you have that external hard drive which has the lightning connected to it and once you do
just plug that straight into your iphone and then you'll have to go and find the files app
the files app is something that is fairly new that apple introduced onto the iphone and ipad a couple
of years ago but what you'll do here is when you're inside that files app just select browse
locate and open that photos app and then select the photos that you want to transfer
and then once you've selected the photos that you want to move just make sure you move them
into that files app and you do this by selecting share on the files app you then just select the
hard drive that is connected to your iphone and then there you have it you've then moved your
photos from your iphone to an external hard drive that plugs straight in to your iphone there we go
three methods there for you so even if you use a pc a mac or you don't have any and you just have
an iphone there are options for everyone moving photos is something that is really important to
quite a lot of people and they are memories for a lot of people so it's important to make sure you
can access them whenever you need so if there's someone that you know who's looking to save their
photos through an external hard drive then why not share this video with them let us know in the
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