This will open a pane with AirDrop included. To check that AirDrop is on press in the middle of the four icons that include Airplane Mode and Wi-FI. Open the Control Centre (swipe down from top right on a Face ID phone or any iPad, or swipe up from the bottom of the screen on a Touch ID iPhone). It probably is because AirDrop is on by default these days, but a few years back it needed to be turned on.

Make sure your iPad is set to receive over AirDrop.

Here’s how to AirDrop from an iPhone or iPad: It uses WiFi and Bluetooth to transfer the photo (or any type of file) between the two devices.

What if you just want to copy a few photos to your iPad? As long as your iPhone and iPad (or Mac and iPad) are close together you could use AirDrop.ĪirDrop is the simplest way of transferring a small number of photos. Make sure you delete the right one (if you make a mistake you can find 30 days worth of deleted items in the ‘Other Albums’ section.

You can now delete it from your iPhone (or iPad).

If you go to your camera roll album you should see the new copy.

This will download the photo and you will see a second photo beside the one you copied.Scroll down through the options to Duplicate.Tap on the Share icon (the square with an arrow pointing out the top).If you wanted to move your photos onto your iPad and then delete them from your Mac using the Photo Stream method follow these steps: All the images you have recently captured on the linked iPhone, or added to the Photos library on your Mac, should appear in here. Now open Photos on the iPad, and tap on Albums, then My Photo Stream. (You can accidentally take a lot of photos that way!) You may want to make sure that Upload Burst Photos is deselected so that it only uploads the best photo of the set.Go to Settings > Photos and turn on ‘Upload to My Photo Stream’ (or just ‘My Photo Stream’).

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