transfer photos from iphone to external hard drive

What windows version are you running? Usually it will prompt you when you plug your phone to the computer.

Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or Windows PC

Import media to a Windows PC

Before importing your media:

• Unlock your iOS device using your passcode, particularly if you've never synced your device with the computer before. Learn more about iOS passcodes.
• Makes sure your iOS device trusts the computer you want to import your media onto. Learn more about "Trust this Computer."

Windows 8: Learn how to import photos and videos from a camera, phone, or DVD (Windows Help)
Windows 7 and Windows Vista: Learn how to get pictures from your camera to your computer (Windows Help)

If your computer doesn't recognize an attached iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch as a camera, and prevents you from importing photos to your computer, learn how to resolve the issue.

I was on with four different people for 6 hours last week with Apple Chat, asking about this exact issue. I followed your directions and this is EXACTLY what I wanted. THANK YOU.

Thank you! Now I'm in charge and not photos any more.

ipjoe wrote:

What is the best way to transfer pictures and videos from your iphone/ipad to an external hardrive?

Do you want to import your pictures from camera roll? I think you can use iCloud to handle.

1. Connect your iPhone with Wi-Fi.

2. Turn on Photo Stream of your iPhone

3. Get your iCloud downloaded to computer/Mac

4. Thus, your photos could be automatically transferred to the iCloud and to your iPhone.

At this time, you can transfer your iPhone photos to external hard drive.

colinefinger wrote:

ipjoe wrote:

What is the best way to transfer pictures and videos from your iphone/ipad to an external hardrive?

Do you want to import your pictures from camera roll? I think you can use iCloud to handle.

1. Connect your iPhone with Wi-Fi.

2. Turn on Photo Stream of your iPhone

3. Get your iCloud downloaded to computer/Mac

4. Thus, your photos could be automatically transferred to the iCloud and to your iPhone.

At this time, you can transfer your iPhone photos to external hard drive.

One more step to handle is that you need to put your iPhone photos from your computer to external hard drive.

Thank you so much, I have been searching everywhere for info on doing this and your simple instructions works perfectly. Was just about to buy expensive software to do it but not necessary. Thanks Again.

Thank you TownieBrownie! Huge help and so easy to do once you laid it out. Thank you for your help!

TownieBrownie! You rule. Thank you!

How do you transfer the photos directly from icloud to an external hard drive without dowloading them onto the computer?

THIS IS AMAZING. I have been kinda out of the loop over the last few years with technology and I am soooo thankful to have found this. thank you! worked perfectly. tons of time and space saved on my mac!

Hi, do exactly this:

Go to Finder in the dock at the bottom of the page (usually all the way left with a face)

Select Applications

Select Image Capture

Should be very clear how to do it after this.

But just in case:

Icon of iphone will be on the left under Devices and your pictures should automatically pop up and then at the bottom it says Import to: and you select other and then select your external harddrive.

Thanks for trying to help, but I already tried that.

Those directions only copied 45 out of 1000 photos that were on my iphone and not all the photos that are on the icloud. When you have upward of 1000 photos on your phone, like I did they are not all saved on the phone, but rather downloaded from the icloud when you want to access them. The image capture directions only accessed 45 photos when I tried that drag and drop method.

Instead I logged onto my icloud account and downloaded all the photos onto my computer. This is what I was trying to avoid, and why I asked the question to begin with because I wasn't sure my computer would be able to handle it and I thought it would take forever. Unfortunately it's not possible to drag the photos from your icloud account to the EHD. From there I transferred them onto my EHD, and deleted them from icloud therefore freeing up storage space. From now on I'll just have to be better about transferring photos more regularly from my phone directly to the EHD before there are too many to access directly from the phone.

After struggling for days to find the right solution and even getting to the Apple customer service, downloading external programs that asked me to pay, this is just the perfect and simplest solution to my problem of exporting my photos in iPhone to an external hard drive.

Thank you very much for posting this, it's really helpful!!

Thank you - addressing the pop-up issue to get image capture right away was exactly the problem. But I tried a "dry run" - that is, opening up Image Capture without connecting my iphone to my computer and my external hard drive so a to adjust the setting so that image capture will automatically pop up and not iphoto. But when I opened image capture (without connecting the device), there was no place to do this. Can you suggest what to do? (Otherwise, I'm afraid the photos will start to be captured by iphoto while I'm in the process of selecting image capture). Thank you.

You can copy Camera Roll photos to your Mac or to an external drive by following the instructions in the following link. Use the Image Capture option if you want them on an external drive rather than part of iPhoto:

Once you have done that and deleted them from the phone, if desired you can then sync some of them back to the phone using iTunes sync with the appropriate settings on the Photo page of iTunes with the phone connected.

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