How to transfer photos from your Android device to your Windows PC - ZDNet

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You whitethorn person snapped thousands of photos connected your Android telephone implicit the years. And present you privation to transcript them to your machine to edit them oregon conscionable support them safe. No problem. You tin execute this successful a fewer antithetic ways.

You tin plug your instrumentality into your PC via a USB cablegram and entree the photos from your phone.
You tin usage the Windows Photos app to import the photos from your phone.
By default, your photos are automatically saved to Google Photos, from which you tin download them to your PC.
If you pat into OneDrive, you're capable to automatically upload caller photos from your telephone to the OneDrive Pictures folder.
And you tin usage Microsoft's Phone Link app to transportation your photos.

Each method works the aforesaid successful Windows 10 and Windows 11. Let's spell done each one.

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Plug your telephone into your PC

The simplest mode to transportation your photos is to transcript them straight from your phone. To bash this, plug your telephone into a USB larboard connected your PC. On your phone, swipe down from the apical of the surface until you spot an enactment for your USB connection. It whitethorn archer you that it's presently charging your instrumentality via USB. Tap that mounting and alteration it to File transfer.

Screenshots of USB Preferences successful Android.

Next, unfastened File Explorer connected your Windows PC and navigate to your Android device. Drill down done the Internal Storage oregon Internal Shared Storage folder to the DCIM subfolder and past unfastened the Camera folder. You should spot each of the phone's photos here. Open different model successful File Explorer to a section folder connected your PC. You tin past transcript and paste oregon resistance and driblet the photos from your telephone to your computer.

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Use the Windows Photos app

You tin besides import photos from your mobile telephone utilizing the Windows Photos app. Open the app connected your PC. Click the Import fastener and prime the enactment for From a connected device.

Sample shot pictures successful Windows Photos app.

Select your Android telephone and let the app to make each the photos from the device. Click the nexus for Change destination to take a antithetic folder for importing the photos. Click the drop-down paper for Select and take the enactment for All items. Check the container for Delete archetypal items aft import to region the photos from your phone. When ready, click the Import button.

Downloading illustration photos to PC to import.

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Use Google Photos

First, marque definite that the photos connected your telephone are being backed up and synchronized to Google Photos. Open the Photos app. Tap your illustration icon and prime Photos settings. Choose Back up & sync and corroborate that the power is turned connected for Back up & sync. Also, marque definite you person capable abstraction successful your Google unreality retention to accommodate each your photos. You tin besides alteration the Upload size to upload your photos successful a compressed format to prevention space.

Google Photos sync enactment connected phone.

Browse and motion successful to the Google Photos website connected your computer. You should determination spot the photos synced from your Android phone. Now let's presume you privation to download each the photos to your PC. Select the archetypal photo, clasp down the Shift key, and past prime the past photo. Click the three-dot icon successful the precocious close and prime Download. Your photos are saved successful your default Download folder arsenic a ZIP file.

Sample Google Photos astir to beryllium downloaded.

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Use Microsoft OneDrive

Here's a adjuvant enactment if you already usage Microsoft OneDrive successful Windows. Install the OneDrive app connected your Android telephone if you haven't already done so. Open the app and motion successful with your Microsoft account. Tap the Photos icon astatine the bottom. Tap the enactment for Camera upload and pat the Turn On button. Then flip the power for Camera upload.

Setting up OneDrive with illustration pictures connected Android phone.

After the photos person been synced, unfastened the OneDrive folder connected your machine and you should spot each the photos.

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Use Microsoft's Phone Link

Yet different enactment is to usage Microsoft's Phone Link, which lets you presumption and retrieve photos and different items from an Android phone. Your archetypal measurement is to link and sync your Android telephone with Windows. After your telephone is linked, prime the enactment for Photos successful the Phone Link app connected your Windows PC. You'll past spot each the photos from your phone. Right-click connected a photograph you privation to download and prime Save as. The downside with Phone Link is that there's nary mode to prime and download aggregate photos to your PC successful 1 shot. So this instrumentality is utile much for downloading conscionable a fewer photos astatine a time.