SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE

If you have photos on your Mac or PC and want to sync them to your iPhone, here are some solutions to make it easy for you to do so.

There are several ways to ensure these photo transfers from a PC or a Mac to your iPhone, such as with iTunes, via the iCloud photo library or even AirDrop. Some photo transfer tools for iPhone can also allow you to transfer your photos, offering you many additional services.

Here are 4 step-by-step methods to transfer photos from your Mac or PC to your iPhone:

1. How to transfer photos from PC/Mac to iPhone without iTunes?

If you want to transfer photos stored on your PC to your iPhone without using iTunes, you can try the AnyTrans tool (Mac and PC compatible) . A quick and easy way to accomplish this task and more.

It is a real alternative to iTunes for managing and transferring your data; photos, contacts, messages, music etc. With AnyTrans, you can also transfer photos to your iPad.

How to transfer your photos from PC to your iPhone in 3 steps:

2. How to transfer photos from PC/Mac to iPhone with iTunes/Finder

It is also possible to transfer photos from PC to iPhone with iTunes or with the Finder on Mac. Before using iTunes if you want to move photos, you should know one important thing: While syncing photos, all photos, music, ringtones, iBooks and other media files on your iPhone will be erased. The new data will overwrite the previous ones.

Follow these steps:

3. How to transfer Mac photos to iPhone with iCloud

Using iCloud photo sharing with Photos for MacOS (MacOS high sierra), you can keep your photos up to date on all your devices, including your Mac and your iPhone.

This means that photos will be transferred to your iPhone from your Mac, if you have iCloud Photos enabled. Here are the steps to follow using iCloud:

Enable iCloud Photos on Mac with OS X 10.10.3 or higher:

Enable iCloud Photos on an iPhone running iOS 10.3 or later:

Next, enable photo syncing on your iPhone as follows:

4. How to transfer your photos from your Mac to your iPhone with AirDrop?

With AirDrop, you can easily transfer photos from a Mac or an external hard drive to your iPhone, wirelessly. This is a quick way if you only need to send a few photos.

Here are the steps to follow when using AirDrop:

First enable AirDrop on your iPhone and Mac:

Send photos from Mac to iPhone:

Conclusion

As you can see, iTunes is very restrictive and does not allow 2-way management. From your computer to your iPhone it will overwrite your data. Prefer AnyTrans in this case! It is more complete and allows you total management of your iPhone.

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