Using Image Capture to import photos from an iPad

Click on your Launchpad icon

There are many ways to import photos to your computer from an iPad. The easiest way to accomplish this on your LHN computer is to use Image Capture. This program will allow you to move photos and videos from your iPad or your student’s iPad. It will also allow you to delete large groups of images from an iPad at one time, using the computer.

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Open Image Capture

Connect the iPad to your Mac via USB

(You can close iTunes and iPhoto if they open automatically)

In Image Capture, you will see the name of the connected iPad in the sidebar

Here, you will see all of the images on the iPad

Click on this dropdown to choose where you’d like to save your images. If you choose “other,” you can save them anywhere on your hard drive.

Click the “Import” button to only import the selected images. Click “Import All” to import all of the pictures, regardless of what you’ve selected.

Use your shift key or your command key to select the photos and/or videos that you want to import.

You can also use image capture to delete photos and videos from an iPad. Use your shift key or your command key to select the photos and/or videos that you want to delete.

Press the delete button. Be careful. There’s no way to get them back.