Ways to backup iPhone photos to your PC

“My iPhone is with storage 16GB, and when i download some Apps, it’ll say my storage is coming full and couldn’t install them successfully. So i suppose my iPhone photos are the main problems, and thinking about ways to backup iPhone photos to PC.”

Maybe you just want to backup your iPhone photos to PC, in case you lost your iPhone, or maybe you want to save some storage of your iPhone, or maybe you just need to check your iPhone photos through PC to enjoy a more clear and big scene ect. In all those cases, it means we’ll have the need to backup iPhone photos to PC. Luckily, there are many ways can help us save iPhone photos to PC.

Now we’ll detail three ways to backup iPhone photos to PC.

Way 1. Backup iPhone photos to PC with USB cable

In our first mind, we may think about save photos through USB cable, it’s an easy, safe and traditional way to do it.

Now connect your iPhone with PC by using USB cable, when your iPhone is detected by PC, check your iPhone photo folder, copy the photos to your PC. And done.

Way 2. Backup iPhone photos to PC with iTunes Backup

When Cloud Service is developed so fast, more people are doing backup with iTunes and iCloud. Here we’ll see how to backup iPhone photos to PC with iTunes backup.

Step 1. Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC, then go to Files--Summary.

Step 2. Tap on “Backup Now”, then confirm with “Backup”.

Step 3. When finish backup, go to Files--Summary, tap on “Restore Backup”, click “Restore”.

Then you’ll have your iPhone photos on PC.



Way 3. Backup iPhone photos to PC with iRefone selectively

iTunes supports us to do backup for entire folder, not part of them. So if you want to do it selectively, there is still a way. And you’ll need come to third-party software, we recommend iRefone.
iRefone is a wonderful iOS data backup and restore tool, it can also backup your lost or deleted iPhone contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages ect and recover them in a few seconds. What’s more, it supports you to preview them before backup and restoring, and it means you can selectively backup your iPhone data.

Now you can download and install the free trail version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. When we enter the new interface with data files that iRefone can recover and backup, click “Photo” icon, and it’ll be scanned by iRefone.



Step 3. After scanning, you can preview and choose photos you need to backup, tap on “Recover to PC”.
And you’ll have your iPhone photos you choose on PC.