Transfer Photos from iPhone to USB Flash Drive 2019 Guide

2 For Win: Copy DCIM folder from iPhone to USB Stick

You can get iPhone photos to your USB by using Windows Explorer.


Ensure that you have the latest version of iTunes installed on your PC.


Connect your iPhone and USB flash drive to PC.


Your iPhone will be shown in This PC/Computer. Go into it.


Tap Internal Storage > DCIM Folder.


Select and copy all the photos you need from all DCIM folders, and paste them to your USB drive.



This method is very straightforward, but it requires a lot of work to locate the photos.

Disadvantages:


All the photos are divided into different folders according to added date. But the folders are not named by date. It's time-consuming to find the photos you want because you need to open every folder until you find the one you want.


You cannot view the photos by albums, or cannot transfer iPhone albums to external hard drive.


It doesn't support HEIC photos.
3 For Mac: Use Photos App to Save iPhone Photos to USB

The Photos app may not be present on older versions of the Mac operating system but the iPhoto will be present. The steps involved to transfer iPhone photos to Mac using iPhoto are similar to the new Photos app.


With the aid of a USB or iOS cable, connect iPhone to your Mac.


Check if the Photos app automatically opens. If it doesn't, manually open it.


It will show you all your iPhone photos there. Select the photos you wish to transfer from your iPhone to Mac and click on the "Import Selected" button. You can also select "Import New" (All New Items) if you want to transfer only some photos.


When it finishes, connect your USB stick to Mac.


Select and copy the photos, open the USB folder and paste them into the stick.







Disadvantages:


Of course, you cannot transfer photos albums from iPhone to USB drive in this way neither.


It does support to transfer the videos in your Photos app on iPhone to computer.





It's actually easy to transfer photos from iPhone to USB flash drive without iTunes by using the media transfer tool iMyFone TunesMate. It would no longer be a hard job then you can keep your iPhone photos to a USB flash drive.Sponsor ads:Create Boomerang from Existing Videos on Android/iPhone 2019