I have a PC running Win 10 with iTunes 12.5.5.5 and I need to transfer some photos from the PC to my iPad Air 2 running iOS 10.2.1.
I have tried iTunes, iExplorer, manually transferring the files but nothing works. This is much more difficult that it needs to be.
Can someone let me know how to do it please.
Thanks.
Don
iPad Air, iOS 10.2.1
Thanks to all that replied. I have found what I was doing wrong and successfully copied the photos.
Here is what the problem was :
In iTunes 12 you need to press the button ( shown here circled in red ) in order to access the Settings menu where the Photos button appears :
Once I did that I could access the Photo section and the follow the procedure.
Thanks again all !
Don
What happened when you tried iTunes. All you need to do is sync the photos from the computer to the iPad. See this support document. See the section about Sync your photos manually.... Keep your photos safely stored and up to date on all of your devices - Apple Support
djohnson123 wrote:
I've looked at that article.
Read it again particularly the section "Sync your photos manually with iTunes".
djohnson123 wrote:
as for iTunes - 'Photos' does not appear when I use iTunes to access the iPad. It did at one time I guess but not now.
iTunes won't show Photos on the iPad. It can sync photo albums from your PC. If you want to "drag/drop" photos to Photos on iPad, you're not doing it correctly. Anything that goes to iPad/iPhone has to go thru iTunes.
djohnson123 wrote:
what I want to do is upload to the iPad a small subset of the photos I've processed in Adobe Lightroom. I don't want to Sync a whole library or anything like that. Just 100 photos so I can use the iPad to display them.
Place those 100 photos of your choice in a folder. In iTunes, select "Choose folder..." (see below) and look for the folder that contains selected photos you want to appear in iPad Photos. Click Apply button and (if necessary) sync it.
If you can't get it to work do you have Onedrive (like iCloud) enabled on your computer ? If yes go to Onedrive.com. on your iPad. Go to Photos. I was having a hard time downloading the photo so I hald my finger in it and tapped save image to download photo.
Onedrive.com on my iPad.
Downloaded image.
djohnson123 wrote:
I have found what I was doing wrong and successfully copied the photos.
Here is what the problem was :
In iTunes 12 you need to press the button ( shown here circled in red ) in order to access the Settings menu where the Photos button appears :
Once I did that I could access the Photo section and the follow the procedure.
which is exactly what Step 4 under "Sync your photos manually with iTunes" says and I repeated it in my previous reply. It is extremely important to read slowly and follow instructions carefully.
I've looked at that article. I have iCloud installed on the PC. I tried placing photos into both Download and Upload folders but was not allowed to. and as for iTunes - 'Photos' does not appear when I use iTunes to access the iPad. It did at one time I guess but not now. Also, what I want to do is upload to the iPad a small subset of the photos I've processed in Adobe Lightroom. I don't want to Sync a whole library or anything like that. Just 100 photos so I can use the iPad to display them.
I know what you're getting at but one of the last updates to iTunes changed its behavior : the screenshot I included last time was when I clicked Don's iPad. Unclicked, it just rolls up to nothing. Previously I could see Summary, Apps, Music and the rest under Settings but not now. I can't find a setting that adjusts that - do you know of one ?
Maybe I'll have to uninstall / re-install iTunes
OK. But where do I find this 'Sync Photos' section " The screenshot you used is for a iPhone not an iPad.
This is what I see when I access the iPad through iTunes :
How do I get to 'Sync Photos' ?
Read it again particularly the section "Sync your photos manually with iTunes" -- Step 4
or click Don's iPad
I'm wrong. The photos did go into Uploads
Photos still does not appear in iTunes so there is no way to move the photos
Well, I can't argue with that can I ? Sorry - I missed that step.
Good to know you've resolved your problem. Cheers.
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