IOS – Transferring pictures off of an iPad, when they are stored in an album

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I have an iPad Mini that contains several photo albums with unique pictures that I wish to preserve. These albums were created by syncing (using iTunes) from a computer that we've since recycled. (So we've lost the original pictures. The only copy is in the iPad albums created by the original sync process.)

Is there a good way to copy these pictures back from these iPad-resident albums to another PC (or Mac)?

  • I've connected it to another PC, but iTunes does not appear to offer a way to sync the albums back from the iPad to the PC.
  • The iPad itself is restricting me from moving the pictures into the Camera Roll, and Google Photos doesn't seem to pick up pictures from anywhere else.
  • There does appear to be a way to e-mail pictures individually… but there are over 1,000 images, so that process is too manual to be practical.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Best Answer

You can AirDrop the files to another Mac, with Bluetooth to discover the connection and Wi-Fi (direct) to perform the transfer.

  1. Select all the photos to be saved in the Photos app.
    You can drag select to select more than one photo.
  2. Tap Share.

  3. Choose an AirDrop destination.

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