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Pretty nice! RELATED: What Are AAE Files from an iPhone, and Can I Delete Them? To do that, open the Photos app on your iPhone, select the images you want to email, then tap the share button which looks like a square with an arrow pointing upward out of it. In the menu that appears, tap the Mail app icon, then you can compose an email in the Mail app. But it works in a pinch. Good luck! RELATED: How to Share Photos and Videos From Your iPhone. We select and review products independently. When you purchase through our links we may earn a commission.

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Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If you want to transfer photos and videos from your iPhone to your Windows 11 PC, the quickest and easiest way is to plug your phone in and perform an automatic import. It can copy the photos and videos from your iPhone with no extra software needed. First, locate the appropriate Lightning to USB cable for your iPhone. Usually, this is the same cable you can use to charge your iPhone. One end will have a small connector that plugs into your iPhone the Lightning end , and another will either be a USB-A or USB-C connector.

When you plug in your iPhone, the phone will ask you if you want to allow the PC to access photos and videos on the device. Windows will scan the pictures folder in your iPhone to look for photos and videos it can copy to your PC. During the import process, Windows will copy the photos and videos to a new time-stamped folder in your Pictures folder by default. When the import is complete, open a File Explorer window and navigate to your Pictures folder. Those are special metadata files Apple uses to store photo editing info. AAE files you find. You can plug it back in again to import photos or videos any time you want.

Pretty nice! RELATED: What Are AAE Files from an iPhone, and Can I Delete Them? To do that, open the Photos app on your iPhone, select the images you want to email, then tap the share button which looks like a square with an arrow pointing upward out of it. In the menu that appears, tap the Mail app icon, then you can compose an email in the Mail app. But it works in a pinch. Good luck! RELATED: How to Share Photos and Videos From Your iPhone. We select and review products independently. When you purchase through our links we may earn a commission. Learn more. Windows ». Take Screenshot on Windows Mount an ISO image in Windows What Is svchost.

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