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How can I transfer photos from an iPhone 4S to an iPhone 5?
I've recently upgraded to an iPhone 5 from a 4S & would like to know how I can transfer all of my photos from one phone to another.
On the 4S, I've just backed up the iPhone because I didn't have enough storage until I bought some more. The phone hasn't backed up since September Would I be able to transfer the photos using iCloud? Or would I have to send each photo individually? Thanks
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Easiest way is to backup the 4S phone to a PC using iTunes, and then restore to the 5 using iTunes. That will overwrite everything on the 5 and make it feel like the 4S, text messages, contacts, apps, photos etc, everything.
If you didn't want to do this, you could copy all the photos off from the 4S (look in My Computer on windows machines when phone connected) as JPG files, and then use iTunes to sync them onto the new 5. Alternatively sync them to DropBox, OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Photos, Google Drive, and just access them from the appropriate app. iCloud Photos (beta) would probably do it, but I've not tried this as its still in beta; and most people have a lot of photos, more than the iCloud 5GB free space. |
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Providing you've got photos selected under the storage backup settings in iCloud then once you've backed up the 4s they should appear on your 5 once you've selected the iCloud backup when you go through the installation process and it's been installed.
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Easiest way is to backup the 4S phone to a PC using iTunes, and then restore to the 5 using iTunes. That will overwrite everything on the 5 and make it feel like the 4S, text messages, contacts, apps, photos etc, everything.
If you didn't want to do this, you could copy all the photos off from the 4S (look in My Computer on windows machines when phone connected) as JPG files, and then use iTunes to sync them onto the new 5. Alternatively sync them to DropBox, OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Photos, Google Drive, and just access them from the appropriate app. iCloud Photos (beta) would probably do it, but I've not tried this as its still in beta; and most people have a lot of photos, more than the iCloud 5GB free space. Quote:
Providing you've got photos selected under the backup settings in iCloud then once you've backed up the 4s they should appear on your 5 once you've selected the iCloud backup when you go through the installation process.
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The 4S is backing up now. I've set up the 5 already so once the 4S backup is complete they should appear on the 5 automatically I'm assuming?
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Afraid not, you'd have to restore the 5 and then select the iCloud backup to install.
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What if I signed out of iCloud on the 5 & then signed back in again or wouldn't that work?
Your other option is as jchamier has said and use iCloud Photo Library(Beta) Settings > Photos & Camera. http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT6378 |
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Afraid not, you'd have to restore the 5 and then select the iCloud backup to install.
Your other option is as jchamier has said and use iCloud Photo Library(Beta) Settings > Photos & Camera. http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT6378 |
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You're making this way more complicated than you need to.
On the 4s, as long as you have enough iCloud storage for the photos, make sure photos is selected to backup and run a backup. This will backup not only the options you have checked (photos for example) but also everything else and all settings. So app contents, text messages, wifi networks, notes, wallpapper etc etc.. Get the 5, easiest way is to factory reset it (settings/general/reset/Reset all content and settings). Then the set up procedure will ask if you want to restore from, iTunes, iCloud or set up as a new iPhone. Choose iCloud and it will list all the backups available. Just pick the latest 4s one. If you have a lot of content and photos it can take a while depending on your broadband speed so as was said, iTunes is always the fastest way to do it. |
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You're making this way more complicated than you need to.
On the 4s, as long as you have enough iCloud storage for the photos, make sure photos is selected to backup and run a backup. This will backup not only the options you have checked (photos for example) but also everything else and all settings. So app contents, text messages, wifi networks, notes, wallpapper etc etc.. Get the 5, easiest way is to factory reset it (settings/general/reset/Reset all content and settings). Then the set up procedure will ask if you want to restore from, iTunes, iCloud or set up as a new iPhone. Choose iCloud and it will list all the backups available. Just pick the latest 4s one. If you have a lot of content and photos it can take a while depending on your broadband speed so as was said, iTunes is always the fastest way to do it. |
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Thanks. It's just that doing it the iTunes way my computer won't let me download/import photos.
If you simply RESTORE the entire backup to a new phone the photos WILL be copied! |
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BKM is correct.
When you connect a phone to iTunes it does 2 things.. 1. It backs EVERYTHING up except purchased synced stuff like Apps, music and Books etc. 2. It does a sync of all your purchased stuff As he says, you can't directly access the backup to see what's in it but when you connect the new phone it will then restore EVERYTHING (including the photos) and then do a sync to get back all the purchased stuff. |
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+1 to backing up/restoring via itunes. The fastest and easiest way and it will pretty much be a clone of your 4S.
Unless you have super-dooper fast broadband, it will take forever to back up to an icloud account, given that most people have a sub 1MBps upload speed on their broadband. Plus, you only have 5GB on the icloud unless you pay for more so it won't back up everything on your phone. |
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I've recently upgraded to an iPhone 5 from a 4S & would like to know how I can transfer all of my photos from one phone to another.
On the 4S, I've just backed up the iPhone because I didn't have enough storage until I bought some more. The phone hasn't backed up since September Would I be able to transfer the photos using iCloud? Or would I have to send each photo individually? Thanks ![]() |
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