How to Transfer Videos from iOS to PC Wirelessly

Updated Sep 06,2018 | by Bennie

As is known to all, the iPhone camera has a high shooting quality, which some people use it as a DLSR camera. After recording a video, you may need to transfer it to a computer for some editing. Transferring videos from iOS to PC wirelessly will be a good choice for you. In this article, there are 3 effective methods to transfer videos from iOS to PC over WiFi.

As the biggest mobile phone producer, Apple has considered that you might not always carry a lightning cable. And they have designed a convenient way to transfer videos from iOS to PC without a cable. If you have installed iTunes 10.6 or higher version, you can sync your iPhone with WiFi.

If you have not used WiFi Sync before, you still need a lightning cable to setup it on your iPhone.

Setup iTunes WiFi Sync

Step 1: Download and install iTunes on your PC and connect your iOS device via a lightning cable.

Step 2: Click on the iPhone/iPad/iPod icon and select Summary.

Step 3: Scroll down and check the box “Sync with this [your device] over Wi-Fi” from the right screen.

Step 4: Click “Apply” to save the change.

Start iTunes WiFi Sync

Step 1: Connect your PC and iOS device to the same WiFi.

Step 2: Click “iPhone” icon in iTunes and click the Sync button to manually start iTunes WiFi sync. Or go to Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync on your iPhone, then tap Sync Now to start syncing your iPhone to PC in the background.

It’s convenient when you can start WiFi Sync on your iPhone, but you still need a lightning cable to set your iPhone. How about you don’t have a lightning cable? In that case, there is a practical tool, which can help you a lot.

IOTransfer, as a professional transfer tool, it offers an Air-Trans feature, which can help you transfer videos from iOS to PC wirelessly. Let me guide you through the following simple steps.

Step 1: Free Download and install IOTransfer on your Windows 10/8/8.1/7 computer.

Step 2: Download IOTransfer Air-Trans on your iPhone. Open this software and navigate to the Air-Trans section.

Step 3: IOTransfer will search all iOS devices connected to the same network. You can select the device on the computer to connect to your iPhone. Besides, you also can use your iPhone to scan the QR code build connection. 

Step 4: Select videos on the AirTrans app from your iPhone to transfer videos to PC.

Is it simple and efficient? Meanwhile, Air-Trans is just one of the many features of IOTransfer, it also allows you to download online videos, clean iPhone for junk files, convert video format, etc.

If you get used to using email to transfer files, such as Gmail. You also can use Gmail to transfer videos from iPhone to PC without cable, if you have a Gmail App on your iPhone.

Step 1: Open the photo App on iPhone

Step 2: Tap on “Select” and select the videos you want to send to PC.

Step 3: Tap on the upload button, and hit “Gmail”, then choose yourself as the recipient. Send the email.

Step 4: Go to https://mail.google.com/, click the transferred videos and select “Save the picture as” to store them on your PC.

That’s all about how to transfer videos from iOS to PC wirelessly, with all 3 practical methods mentioned above, I hope it will help you.

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