How to Get Photos Off iPad

Why It Is Necessary for You to Get Photos Off iPad

It's quite common for you to take photos with your iPad, save images to your iPad from the Internet or social media apps, or transfer pictures to your iPad from another device.

However, with time goes by, you will finally find someday that your iPad storage is almost full and there is no space for you to store other files. That's when you need to get photos off your iPad, either to clear your iPad storage or make a backup of your precious photos.

If that's what you want, follow one of the methods below to transfer photos from iPad to PC with ease.

Method 1. How to Get Photos Off iPad Without iTunes

To transfer photos from your iPad to your computer, be it a PC or Mac, in a well-organized way, you can try the iPhone transfer software - EaseUS MobiMover. It allows you to share various types of content between an iPhone/iPad/iPod and a computer or between two iDevices.

With EaseUS MobiMover, you can easily transfer photos, videos, music, ringtones, contacts, books, and more to or from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod.

To get photos off iPad to PC:

Step 1. Connect your iPad to PC with a USB cable and run EaseUS MobiMover. Choose "Phone to PC" under "Data Transfer" to transfer photos from iPad to PC. Then, click the "Next" button to move on. 

Step 2. To transfer photos from your iPad to PC, make sure that the "Pictures" is selected. As you can see, you can choose to move all the supported files from your iPad to the computer at once. Besides, MobiMover enables you to customize the storage path for the exported data as you need. 

Step 3. Click the "Transfer" button to start transferring photos from your iPad to PC. Except for exporting files from iPad to PC, you can also use MobiMover to import data from PC to iPad with "PC to Phone" mode. 

Other than being an iOS data transfer tool, EaseUS MobiMover is also a free video & audio downloader that works to download online video & audio files via URL for free. Whether you want to download YouTube videos to iPad or save music from SoundCloud to your computer, EaseUS MobiMover will help.

Method 2. How to Transfer Photos from iPad to PC via File Explorer

"How do I transfer files from iPad to PC via USB?" If the files you are going to transfer are photos, it's quite easy for you to import photos from your iPad to PC via a USB port. As long as your iPad can be recognized by your computer, you will be able to transfer your iPad photos to your PC via File Explorer, without installing iTunes.

To transfer iPad photos to PC via USB:

Step 1. Connect your iPad to your computer using a USB cable.

Step 2. Make sure your iPad is recognized and go to "This PC" > [your iPad's name] > "Internal Storage" > "DCIM" > "100APPLE".

Step 3. Now you could see all the photos and videos from your iPad camera roll. Select the items you'd like to transfer and then copy them to your computer.

Bonus Tip: How to Delete Photos from iPad

After you transfer photos from your iPad to your computer, you may want to delete photos from your device to get more storage on your iPad. To remove pictures from your iDevice, you can do it on your iPad directly or using the software introduced above - EaseUS MobiMover.

Here I will show you how to delete your iPad photos via the Photos app:

Step 1. Go to the "Photos" app and choose "All Photos".

Step 2. Tap "Select" and select the photos you want to delete.

Step 3. Tap the "Trash" icon to remove these photos from your iPad.

The Bottom Line

Actually, there are other ways that can also help to get photos off your iPad. But the two methods above are enough to solve your problem. If you are using a Mac instead of a PC, you can use the Photos app and AirDrop to get things done.