The best/fastest way to move photos from an Android phone to a computer would be with a USB cable. — Photo by Daniel Romero on Unsplash
About a month ago, I wrote a column about a few ways to transfer photos from an iPhone to your computer.
Well as it happens, sometimes when I write about a specific topic, I often hear from readers who feel a bit left out.
One reader wrote, “This week's column about moving pics from phone to PC was 100% iPhone-centric. What about us Android users? Don't you like us?” (He did include a laughing emoji.)
Actually, I’ve got no beef with Android phone users.
Sometimes when I get a specific question, I’ll flesh out the answer in a column and by the time I’m done, I’ve written enough to fill the space I have. I have infinite space online, but these columns appear in newspapers as well, and editors expect them to be a specific length (within reason).
When I’m finished answering the question, I must decide if I have enough room left to expand on it to include “the other side,” which might be Android users if I’m writing about iPhones or Mac users if I’m writing about Windows, or vice versa.
Now, getting back to the question, the best/fastest way to move photos from an Android phone to a computer would be with a USB cable.
Connect the phone to the computer via USB and the phone should appear as a storage device like a flash drive. You’ll need to make sure the phone is unlocked or the computer won’t find it.
When you connect them for the first time, watch the phone screen and/or the computer screen for pop-up messages about trusting the new device and allowing the transfer of data.
You can navigate the phone’s storage to open the folder with the photos, or you can open the Photos app on the PC or Mac and import the photos from inside the app.
Another way to get pictures and videos from the phone to a computer is via cloud upload. If you use Google Photos or Microsoft OneDrive you can use your phone to upload your files to the cloud, then you can log into the same service on your computer to view and download them. – Tribune News Service
