Sync your photos manually using the Finder

If you don't use iCloud Photos, y'all can manually sync your photos and videos from your Mac to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact using the Finder.

Plough on Finder syncing

Y'all can use the Finder on your Mac to sync photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on from the Photos app, or from a folder on your computer. Each time that you sync your iOS device with your computer, the photos and videos on your iOS device update to friction match the albums on your computer. If you have photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that aren't on your computer, learn how to import them.

  1. Open a Finder window and connect your device to your computer using a USB cablevision.
  2. Unlock your device.
  3. Your device appears in the sidebar of the Finder window. Click the device to select it.
  4. If prompted, trust your device.
  5. Click the Photos tab beneath your device's information.
  6. Select the checkbox next to Sync photos to your device from, then select Photos or a binder on your Mac.
  7. Choose between syncing all your photos and albums or only selected albums. You can also choose to sync but favorites, and whether to include videos.
  8. Click the Apply button in the lower-right corner of the window. If syncing doesn't showtime automatically, click the Sync button.

You lot must import Slo-Mo and Time-Lapse videos through the Photos app or Paradigm Capture in Os X Yosemite or later for their effect to be synced via the Finder. When you use iCloud Photos, Slo-Mo and Time-Lapse videos keep their effects.

Live Photos keep their outcome when y'all import them to Photos in OS Ten El Capitan and later, simply they lose their effect if you sync them back to your device via your computer. Use iCloud Photos then that Live Photos go along their effect, no matter what device you utilize.

Yous can sync your device only with the System Photo Library. If you have more than than one photo library on your Mac, be certain that the correct i is designated equally the System Photo Library.

Turn off Finder syncing

If you don't want the synced photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch anymore, plow off syncing in the Finder and they'll be removed from your device. Yous tin turn off syncing for some of your photograph albums or all of them at once.

Stop syncing some albums

  1. Open a Finder window and connect your device to your calculator using a USB cable.
  2. Unlock your device.
  3. Your device appears in the sidebar of the Finder window. Click the device to select it.
  4. If prompted, trust your device.
  5. Click the Photos tab beneath your device'due south information.
  6. Choose "Selected albums" and deselect the albums or collections that you want to terminate syncing.
  7. Click Apply.

Stop syncing all photos

  1. Open a Finder window and connect your device to your computer using a USB cablevision.
  2. Unlock your device.
  3. Your device appears in the sidebar of the Finder window. Click the device to select it.
  4. If prompted, trust your device.
  5. Click the Photos tab below your device's information.
  6. Deselect "Sync Photos" and so click "Remove photos."
  7. Click Apply.

Keep your photos updated automatically with iCloud

If you use iCloud Photos, y'all tin can keep all your photos and videos stored in iCloud. They sync seamlessly across all of your devices so you can access your library from your Mac, Apple tree Television set, iPhone, iPad, and even your PC. Your newest shots and edits upload automatically when yous're connected to the internet.

Learn how to prepare and use iCloud Photos.

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