How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to iPad Pro

The Apple iPad is always a great tablet for showing off your extensive collection of images of holidays or family and friends. Things can be better. With the newly released iPad Pro, it will be a much more fantastic thing to show case photos for it obtains the biggest 12.9-inch retina display. But how do you get all your photos from iPhone onto your iPad Pro to start with? In this guide, we prepare you three methods to send photos from iPhone to iPad Pro. Follow and get the solutions now.

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1. Transfer Pictures from iPhone to iPad Pro via AirDrop

One of the easiest ways to send photos from iPhone to your iPad Pro is using Apple’s AirDrop service. To use this function, you'll need to be running iOS 7 on the iPhone 5 or later or the iPad 4 or later. Since your iPad Pro is running the latest iOS 9, you only to make sure the AirDrop feature is available on your iPhone. Follow these steps to get photos from an iPhone to an iPad Pro:

Step 1. Swiping up to open Control Centre on both your iPhone and iPad Pro, tap on AirDrop to enable the service. You can make your device discoverable to Everyone or Contacts Only.

Step 2. Open the Photos app on the iPhone and tap on Share in the bottom right.

Step 3. Choose the photos you want to share, and the name of your iPad Pro will appear under the Tap To Share with AirDrop section. Tap on your iPad Pro name to send the pictures. On the iPad, tap on Accept to transfer images from your iPhone to the iPad Pro.

Note: AirDrop is really quick, but it is time-consuming to transfer a bunch of photos. We will recommend you the second option, syncing photos from iPhone to iPad Pro via Photo Stream.

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2. Transfer Pictures from iPhone to iPad Pro with Photo Stream

Photo Stream is part of Apple’s iCloud service. With it, you can share your photos across all your Apple devices. Follow the steps to send pictures from iPhone to iPad Pro via Photo Stream.

Step 1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and turn on My Photo Stream.

Step 2. Repeat step 1 on your iPad Pro.

Step 3. The new photos you add to your iPhone will appear automatically in My Photo Stream album in Photos app on your iPad Pro.

Note: In iOS 8 and iOS 9, when iCloud Photo Library is turned on, the Photo Stream photos become part of your photo library and appear in All Photos album. Photo Stream only stores 1,000 photos and may take up 1GB iCloud storage space. Every time you take new photos with your iPhone or iPad Pro, it will automatically appear on both iDevices, so you cannot choose only part of the pictures to transfer from your iPhone to iPad Pro.

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3. How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to iPad Pro with AnyTrans

AnyTrans is a comprehensive iOS data transfer that allows you to transfer photos from any iPhone to any iPad directly. You can preview the photos and select all or multiple pictures to transfer from iPhone to your iPad Pro, and vice versa. It also allows you to transfer pictures from iPhone/iPad to computer as backup, and you can delete all photos from your iDevice in one click including the synced pictures. Besides photos, it supports transferring videos, music, contacts, books, voice memos and more from your iPhone to iPad easily.

Step 1. Download AnyTrans (for PC/ Mac), and install it on your computer. Connect your iPhone and iPad Pro with USB cables.

Step 2. Go to the manage page of your iPhone, click on Photos, and choose from Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library, Photo Share, etc.

Step 3. Select the photos you want to send to your iPad Pro from iPhone, click the To Device button to start transfer iPhone photos to iPad Pro.

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The Bottom Line

Choose the method you prefer from the above three solutions to transfer pictures from iPhone to your iPad Pro. At the same time, don’t forget to check the top tips and tricks to maintain new iPad Pro. And it is strongly recommended to download the best iOS data manager AnyTrans to have a try.