Transfer Photos from iPhone to External Hard Drive [4 Ways]

Myra updated on Jan 30, 2024 to iOS & Android Video Tutorials

When you have too many photos on your iPhone, transferring them to your external hard drive is essential to free up your iPhone's internal storage. In this video guide, you will learn 4 ways to transfer photos from an iPhone to an external hard drive without losing quality.

Once we exceed iCloud's 5GB free storage limit, our photos on iPhone cannot sync to iCloud. Thus, to keep our pictures safe and get more storage on iPhones, it is necessary to export iPhone photos to a hard drive. The hard drive is an ideal choice for photo backup with its advantages of large storage space, excellent read and write speed, and high portability.

  1. 00:21- Method 1: Export photos from iPhone to a hard drive with the Photos app( Windows 8 or Later)
  2. 01:21- Method 2: Copy iPhone photos from File Explorer (Windows)
  3. 02:16 - Method 3: Export photos from iPhone to a hard drive using EaseUS MobiMover (Windows & Mac)
  4. 02:50 - Method 4: Download photos from iCloud (Windows & Mac)