How to Transfer Photos from Photo Stream to PC/Mac Computer Easily

Q: "How do I copy certain photos from my iPhone's photostream to my PC? When I plug the iPhone into a windows PC, I can access the camera roll photos, but not the ones in the photostream. I want to get about 20 photos from the photostream to PC, is there a better way to do this?"

-- A User from Apple Support Communities

Photo Stream, a feature of iOS 7/iOS 8/iOS 9 that was designed to store your most recent 1000 photos or the last 30 days of images on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. Because your computer have more storage than your iPhone, you can choose to and store those photostream photos locally in your PC or Mac.

For Mac users: In iPhoto or Aperture preferences, select Photos (or Photo Stream) > My Photo Stream > Automatic Import. All of your photo stream photos will import into your Events, Projects, Photos, Faces, and Places folders in iPhoto or Aperture.

For PC users: Download and install iCloud control panel software on your PC, turn on My Photo Stream, and all of your photos will import into C:\\Users\ \Pictures\iCloud Photos\My Photo Stream

If you want to selectively copy photos from Photo Stream to your computer, one iOS content manager called AnyTrans is your best choice.

Key Features of AnyTrans

1. It can help you transfer photos from Photo Stream to PC/Mac computer freely.

2. It also enables you to import pictures that saved in Camera Roll, Photo Share, Photo Library and Albums to PC/Mac computer with ease.

3. It allows you to have a full control of your iPhone photos: add selected pictures to your device instead of full sync; transfer pictures from iPhone to iPhone directly; delete multiple pictures at once.

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How to Transfer Photos from Photo Stream to PC/Mac Computer

First of all, you need to download AnyTrans on your computer. There are two versions for you: Windows & Mac. The steps to copy photos from Photo Stream to PC or Mac with AnyTrans are almost identical, and here we will show you how to make it on PC computer.

Step 1. Open AnyTrans, and connect your iPhone to computer. Click on Photos tab, and choose Photo Stream to enter next page.

Step 2. View the photos in Photo Stream, and choose the photos you want to transfer, then click the To Computer button.

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The Bottom Line

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