in this video i'm gonna show you the easiest and quickest way to transfer photos and videos from
your iphone to any macbook all you need is a usb cable let's get into it what's up guys i'm Chaq
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the best tech tips fixes and hacks okay so the first thing you need to do is go straight to
settings on your phone you're going to scroll down and search for photos once you find photos you're
going to open photos you're going to scroll down and make sure that transfer to mac or pc is set
to keep originals this is so important you need to set it to keep originals okay the second thing
you need to do is go straight to your macbook i'll be sending files from my iphone 7 plus
to my macbook a 2014. if you have a different model of macbook that's completely fine connect
your iphone to your macbook via usb cable and make sure that your cable works fine on the top right
corner you've got the spotlight search you're going to click once on it and search for image
capture okay once you find image capture going to double click on image capture to open the software
once open this is the screen that you're going to get okay so the first thing you need to do over
here is unlock your phone as you guys can see i've got an icon which says that my iphone is locked
to unlock it all you need to do is just type your passcode on your phone once done all your pictures
are going to be visible over here pictures as well as videos so all you need to do is select whatever
you want to copy to your computer in order to select you can use the command button or the
shift button and the arrows to select multiple files okay so i'll be selecting multiple files
to copy to my macbook but if you just want to copy one file that's completely fine make sure
you just select one the next thing you need to do is select the path where you want to store all the
media files so you're going to click on import to and select the folder you can select one of these
folders if you want to but if you want to create a new subfolder or if you want to select a folder
which is not here you're going to click on others okay once you click on others you can now select
the path manually i personally am going to create a new folder so i'm going to click over here
and let me give you the name let me call it images and i'm going to click on create okay
so this is the new subfolder that i've created i'm going to click on choose to select the sub folder
and it's going to automatically be selected as the destination where i'm going to store all the image
files let me select once again the files because the selection just vanished and click on import
to import them to my macbook now you can click on import all if you want to copy all of the
files that you have on your photo library okay so this is going to copy all the files but since i
just want to copy this selected files i'm going to click on import okay the import process has
started and as you guys can see this is the speed of the process because i've got a video with 400
megabytes it's taking some seconds but this is pretty fine because if you send it via airdrop
it's going to take longer so i personally prefer to use usb cable if i want to transfer
many videos or heavy image files now let me just make sure that the files are already on my macbook
by clicking on the spotlight search and search for the folder where i've got my files selected
so i'm going to open arduino this was the file and as you guys can see all my files are right
here the second method is to use airdrop to send files from your iphone to your macbook by using
airdrop you do not need a usb cable all you need to do is turn on your bluetooth and send the files
on your macbook you need to open finder first and select airdrop option okay so right here you need
to select the visibility of your macbook okay this is the receiving device so you can select
whether you want to keep it to contacts only or if visible to everyone or no one if you do not want
to receive any files at that particular moment i would recommend you guys to set it to everyone
whenever you want to receive files because i find my contact option really baggy at least for me
it hasn't been working so so good so i would recommend you guys to keep it set to everyone
on your iphone you need to open the control center first and over here you've got the option to set
the visibility so basically this is the sender so you do not need to set anything over here
but i would still recommend you guys to keep it to everyone because as i told you guys airdrop is
buggy sometimes next up i'll open photos where my photos are basically located i'm going to select
this picture if you want you can select as many pictures as you want to send i'm going to click on
share and over here i've got the airdrop option so you need to select airdrop and then select
the device that you want to send to in my case i want to send to my macbook so i'm going to select
my macbook from this list right here it takes a few seconds and there you go the picture has been
sent successfully to my macbook now let's compare the usb method from the airdrop method and see
which one is more suitable for you the usb method is going to be less convenient than the airdrop
method because you need to have a usb cable every single time you want to transfer your
files from your iphone to your macbook which is quite uncomfortable if you are far away from home
and you just want to send files from your phone to your laptop airdrop is going to be the best
option in these cases usb method offers a faster transfer rate which means you can transfer files
in a shorter period of time which is a very important point if you want to transfer videos
or large sized files okay if you take pictures in raw format like if you are a photographer or
stuff like that you'll definitely feel the need of a faster transfer raid i personally
am a youtuber and i do send files from my phone to my macbook i always use my usb cable because
it's much quicker than sending it via airdrop method the usb method offers better stability
than the airdrop method it's less buggy you won't be having a lot of bugs while sending files
and you can basically multitask while sending files using a usb cable if you are sending a file
via airdrop method you basically cannot multitask you cannot receive calls you cannot minimize and
do something else you need to be stuck until the transfer is completed which is quite annoying if
you're transferring large files the usb method requires a data usb so basically there are two
types of cables the cables that only charge and the cables that charge and transfer data as well
so in order to transfer data from your phone to your macbook using the usb method you need to
have a data usb cable while using airdrop method you do not need to have any sort of cable all you
need is your phone and your bluetooth turned on at last have decided to talk about the security
of these two methods transferring files through the usb method is much more safer than
using the airdrop method because through airdrop method you need to turn on your visibility okay so
your phone is going to be feasible to any other devices around you which increases the exposure
to hackers if you are in public places okay so make sure you use usb cable whenever you are in
public places that you avoid your exposure and the risk of getting hacked if this video really
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