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How to Download Android Telephone Photos to Your Computer

by Suzanne Kantra on Feb 24, 2021
in Tips & How-Tos, Cameras and Photography, Photo / Video Sharing, Phones and Mobile, Mobile Apps, Android Apps :: 6 comments

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You can hands download all of your photos or choose a select few to transfer from your Android phone to your computer. Here's how to download Android phone photos to a Windows x or Mac computer.

How to download Android photos to a Windows 10 PC

The easiest way to motion your photos from your Android phone to your Windows PC is to apply the Photos app that comes pre-loaded in Windows 10. With the Photos app, y'all tin import all of your photos, or just some of them, and choose the folder where you want them transferred to, then yous know where to find them later.

Unlock your phone.
With a USB cable, connect your telephone to your calculator.
On your phone, tap the notification that pops up for USB settings, charging, or data access. Or, if you don't see a notification, go into Settings and search for "USB Preferences." Depending on your Android device, you may see "Use USB connectedness for," "Allow admission to your data," or simply "Charging" with "Tap to change USB options" beneath.
Select "Allow," "File Transfer," or "Photograph Transfer" to qualify data transfer to your computer.
Open the Photos app on your computer.
On the top right of your screen, click the "Import" push. It will enquire if you want to import from a Folder or a Continued Device.
Select "Connected Device." Once you lot choose "Connected Device," the computer will await for your device and brandish the photos on it. You can import all the images, all of the images from your last import, or just a few select images
On this screen, you can too select where you lot'd similar the images to get. Click on "Change Destination" and choose your desired folder.

How to download Android phone photos to a Mac

If yous want to download photos to a Mac, we recommend using the Photos App on your computer.

Unlock your telephone.
With a USB cablevision, connect your phone to your figurer.
On your telephone, tap the notification that pops upwardly for USB settings, charging, or data access. Or, if you don't see a notification, get into Settings and search for "USB Preferences." Depending on your Android device, you may see "Use USB connexion for," "Let access to your data," or only with "Tap to change USB options" below.
Select "Allow," "File Transfer," or "Photograph Transfer" to qualify data transfer to your computer.
Open the Photos app on your Mac (if it doesn't open automatically), and y'all'll see a screen with all the photos on your connected device. You lot may accept to click your device's name in the Photos sidebar if it doesn't immediately populate.
Select the photos you desire to transfer to your Mac. Click "Import Selected" if you're going to move a group of photos, or you tin can choose to import "All New Photos" to brand sure your about contempo photos are backed up onto your Mac.

If you lot're looking for the photos you've imported, you'll detect them stored in the Photos Library in the Pictures folder.

How to download Android phone photos to your computer if you back them up to Google Photos

The default app for photos on many Android phones is the Google Photos app, which you tin can set upwards to backup all of your photos and videos to Google Photos online. (You'll find that pick in the Google Photos app by tapping your account profile photo or initial, selecting Photos settings > Backup & sync, and tapping "Backup & sync" on.) Hither'south how to download photos on Google Photos to your computer.

Go to Google Photos on your reckoner
Select one or more than photos by hovering over the upper left corner and clicking the checkmark when it appears. Now, you'll meet circles in the upper left of your photos, which you can click to select. Click on more circles to select more than photos. Holding downward the shift key and and so clicking in a circle will select all photos between the terminal select photo and the one y'all just clicked. You lot can select hundreds at a time this way.
Once you lot've selected your photos, click the triple dot menu icon in the upper correct.
Select Download. You tin can choose where to salve the file on your calculator.
Your photos will be saved to a Null file.
Double click on the Nada file you simply saved.
Select "Extract all" and choose where you want your photos saved.

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