Learn how to upload photos to your iPhone

All Apple devices are notable for their convenience and intuitive interface, but if you recently became the owner of the iPhone, you still may have some questions about using it. One of the possible questions: how to upload photos on the iPhone, and how to save photos taken on iPhone in your computer? Everything is very simple!

How to save photos from iPhone via USB

Let's start with this question, because the answer to it is very simple. In order to save the pictures you took, you just need to connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable that came with your phone. When you first connect to the computer, all the necessary drivers are automatically installed. Further, the operating system, whether Windows or Mac OS, will define your device as a removable disk, that is, as a regular flash card. Well, then everything is simple: you open a new disk on your computer and see there all the photos that are in your iPhone. Note, in this way, you can only copy the photo to the iPhone or the video that you also shot on the camera, which, like the photos, is on your phone in the Camera Roll. Other content from the smartphone - music, movies, documents - so you can not copy!

How to sync photos to iPhone via iCloud

A very convenient way that does not require any action from you, except, of course, the initial settings is the transfer of photos through the cloud service of Apple - iCloud, using the "Photo Stream" function. Thus, you can send photos both from your iPhone to your computer, and vice versa. Before uploading photos on the iPhone and back, you need, as mentioned above, to configure the devices accordingly.

Setting up the "Stream" in iPhone

In order to allow your iPhone to transfer all the photos through the "Photo stream", enable this function. To do this, go to the "Settings", and then find the item iCloud. Next, in the "Photos" settings, enable the corresponding radio button. Please note that photos will be downloaded to devices with the included photo stream only if you have a Wi-Fi connection.

Configuring the "Stream" in the computer

If you have Windows installed on your computer, to start working with the photo stream, install the free iCloud program from the Apple website. Downloading and installing the program should not cause any problems. After iCloud is installed, log in to the service under your Apple credentials. It's important that you enter the same Apple ID as on the iPhone, which is how the system identifies you. In the program window, check the box next to "Photos" and after clicking the "Options ..." button, specify where "Photostream" will be located on the computer. In Mac OS everything is about the same. Settings iCloud can be found in the settings of the computer, and there, near the "Photo", enable "Photocurrent". The ability to specify a folder is missing because the "Photo Stream" loads the photo when you turn on iPhoto.

Now, no matter which iPhone you own - iPhone 4, 4s or iPhone 5, - the photos you took on the device can be viewed almost instantly on the computer. How do I upload photos to my iPhone? Simply "drag" them to the appropriate folder on your computer (Windows) or the iPhoto window (Mac OS), and they will soon appear on your smartphone. Note that in the same way pictures are deleted from the "Photo stream", that is, if you delete the photo on the computer, it will disappear in the iPhone. If you want to save it on your phone, copy the image from the My Photo Tray folder to Camera Roll. Also in the computer - copy the photo to another folder if you decide to remove it from the "Photo Stream" on the iPhone.

How to upload photos to iPhone via iTunes

And one more way. It is only suitable for uploading photos from a computer. If you have not done this before, first install the free iTunes program from the Apple website. This program is mandatory software for iPhone owners. With it, you can create backup copies of the device, as well as upload to it various content, for example, books, photos, music, ringtones, wallpapers. Now we will only talk about photos. After the program detects the iPhone connected to the computer, it will display it in the panel on the left. In order to make any manipulations with the phone, it is necessary to select it by pressing the left mouse button. In the central part of the program window, you will immediately see various information about the iPhone, as well as several tabs displaying its contents. In order to download photos on the iPhone, you need to go to the "Photos" tab. It is necessary to create a folder on the computer where the photos will be stored for synchronization with the phone. Upload everything you want to see on your iPhone. On the Photos tab in iTunes, check the box next to "Sync photos from ..." and specify the folder to sync. If necessary, enable the ability to upload video. If necessary, you can select individual photos to be downloaded from the specified folder, if it's iPhoto on the Mac OS, or subfolders.

After you perform all the above manipulations, click "Apply" or "Synchronize" in the lower right corner of the program, wait for the process to finish and you can view the photo on the iPhone.

How to upload photos via the Internet on your iPhone

It is possible to download any favorite photo or picture from the Internet directly to the iPhone. The photos uploaded in this way will go to the "Camera Roll" on your phone. In order to save the picture you like, just open it in the iPhone browser, touch it and hold it for a while - about 1 second. You will see a menu containing the items "Save Image", "Copy" and "Cancel". If you select the first photo, it will be saved.

In addition to all of the above, there are various "cloud" services for transferring files between devices using the Network. But we will not consider these possibilities, since the descriptions of each of them are a separate topic.