These days, near none of my friends or family have a standalone digital camera. They capture moments almost exclusively with smartphone cameras, and most often, those smartphones are iPhones.

The iPhone has long been lauded for the quality of its camera, with every generation improving its specs. Additionally, Apple has provided photo management in iCloud and the Photos app.

But, not all iPhone users are Mac users besides. Some folks use PCs, and rely on photo transfer through iTunes. However, some users take turned to Chromebooks — Google's thin client, browser-based auto — every bit their main computer.

Apple tree and Google may be mortal enemies, just your iPhone and Chromebook can piece of work together. Hither is how to move the photos on your iPhone to your Chromebook using Google Drive.

Start with Google Drive

Begin past downloading the Google Bulldoze app from the Apple App Store. If you are new to the iPhone, the App Store is the native bluish app icon with an "A" in a circle. In the App Store, use the magnifying drinking glass to search for "Google Drive" and the app you want will exist the first issue.

Once you take the app downloaded, tap on the app icon from your home screen to open the app. It'southward of import to remember that Google Drive is more of a management tool than one for content cosmos. If you want to create or edit documents in Drive, for example, y'all'll need to download the carve up Docs app.

With the app open, tap on the red circumvolve with a "+" in the middle of it.

Afterward yous tap the crimson circle, you'll be presented with a few unlike options. Since we are focusing on photos, nosotros are simply going to go over the 2 options related to photos. In the carte that opens, yous should see an "Upload" choice and a "Employ Camera" choice.

Allow's commencement with uploading. In one case yous select uploading, you'll be given yet another set of options to choose from. You tin upload photos and videos that be on your device, photos and videos you lot take stored in iCloud, or content y'all may accept in another compatible app.

Since we are talking nearly getting photos off of our iPhones, select the "Photos and Videos" option. At this signal, you may be prompted to let Google Drive permission to access your photos. You lot must tap "OK" for this upload to work.

At present y'all will be presented with your on-device photo albums to cull from. Select the album that holds the photos you want to upload so tap on the photos you want to upload, keeping in mind you may upload multiple photos at a time. Selected photos volition accept a bluish check marker on them. When you are ready to upload them, tap the grayness checkmark in the upper right manus portion of the screen.

If you lot wish to upload photos directly from the camera, after tapping the red circle, select the "Use Camera" pick. After selecting this choice, you will likely be prompted again, only this fourth dimension to allow Google Drive permission to employ your phone'due south camera. You must select "OK" to continue.

With the camera open, you will take a photo just like you would using the normal camera app. Once the photo is taken, you can either choose to take some other photo or use the one you took. If you choose "Utilise Photo," your photo will automatically exist uploaded to Google Bulldoze.

Retrieving the photos

In lodge to call back the photos you uploaded, yous will need to download them to your Chromebook from Google Drive. Being that the Chromebooks practice not typically take a big amount of harddrive space, information technology isn't recommended for you to shop a large number of photos on the device.

Open up your web browser and find your way to Google Drive. If you are unfamiliar with drive, you can access it from the Google Apps icon on your Gmail folio, or by typing in bulldoze.google.com. If prompted for your login credentials, it will exist the same as your Gmail account.

Google Drive should default to your My Drive view, which shows all the files in your Drive business relationship. If non, try clicking on "My Bulldoze" in the left-hand column on the screen. Clicking the arrow next to My Bulldoze will driblet downwards to reveal whatever folders you lot have created. Folders are a great way to organize your documents and photos in Drive. If y'all create a folder in Drive on the web, yous should be able to upload photos directly to that folder from your iPhone. For example, I use a folder called "iPhone Photos" to backup my photos.

When you have located the photos you wish to store locally on your Chromebook, you can download them one of ii means. First, you lot can download them individually. To do so, click on the name of the file to view the image, and so click the download icon at the top of the screen.

Second, if you lot want to download multiple photos at a time, I recommend that you batch download them all together. To download multiple photos from Google Bulldoze, start by selecting the photos you lot want by clicking the check boxes to the left of each file proper noun.

With the photos selected, click the more tab at the top of the screen and cull "Download" from the drop-downwards menu. Some other window will pop up giving you conversion options for the files (if whatever), and some other blueish "Download" push button. Click the blue download button to complete the download and get your iPhone photos on your Chromebook.

Hopefully this will help you lot better manage your photos and be able to salvage and share the content that matters to you.

Update: A video was added to this article on April 11, 2017.