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How to copy photos and videos from MacBook / Mac to iPhone or iPad [via iTunes]

Compared to Android smartphones, where copying pictures and videos from Windows PC to smartphone Is done through a trivial one copy / Easter, On the devices Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, it is a slightly more complicated process. Copying photos and videos from Mac to iPhone or iPad can only be done through iTunes or another specific application.
It is true that most of the time we need reverse copying. Let's copy the photos and videos from the iPhone or iPad to a computer, but there are also situations where we want to do the opposite.

How to copy photos from MacBook / Mac (macOS) to iPhone or iPad via iTunes

First of all we need to have one Cable lightning and to We connect the iPad or iPhone to your MacBook. Open iTunes And we do Device authorizationIf it has not been previously connected.

After it was successfully done connection and synchronization between iPad / iPhone and iTunes, we leave the application open and organize a little the files to be copied. We put in a folder all the pictures we want to copy. In our example, we created the folder "Fortuna Sports" on desktop.
In the next step we return to the iTunes application, go to the left side to "Photos" > check "Sync Photos" > select the folder whose content is to be copied to the iPhone or iPad > check "Include videos". This is if we don't want only the pictures in the folder to be copied.

Click "Done" to start the copying / synchronization process.

At the end of the synchronization, the "Fortuna Sports" folder synchronized through iTunes will appear in the photo gallery (Photos) on the iPad or iPhone.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the photos and videos did not reach "Camera Roll", But in a folder with the same name as the synchronized one. That means this folder Will not be deleted from the Photos app, Being considered a synchronized album. Deleting it will also be done through iTunes.

If you want to edit a picture from this folder, it must first be duplicated in the iPhone or iPad photo gallery.

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