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How to Transfer Photos Between Samsung Phone and Computer (Windows/Mac)

I like taking photos with my Samsung Galaxy S4 in daily life. Now I have saved over three hundred pictures on my mobile phone. While, I'm afraid that those photos may be lost from my Samsung phone by accident someday, so I decide to export pictures from Samsung to PC. Do you know any good tool can help me?

Undoubtedly, Samsung smart phones are always best-selling products, especially Samsung Galaxy S2, S3, S4, Note 2, Note 3 and the latest S5. And its powerful photographic capability is one of the main reasons why Samsung Galaxy series have enjoyed such great popularity. After shooting photos with your Samsung mobile phone, you may need to share with others, edit them with Photoshop, print them out, and so on. Under these circumstances, it has become a common problem that how can we transfer photos between Samsung phone and computer for various uses.

Here my recommendation is iPubsoft Samsung File Manager( Win/Mac), which enables you to transfer photos between Samsung phone and computer at will. To be honest, this software has been generally considered as the most effective and functional file transfer program. By running it on computer, you can save the whole pictures from your Samsung phone to computer in a batch. That's quite convenient. Apart from this, this program also enables you to copy photos from computer to Samsung mobile phone within clicks. In addition, this Samsung File Manager can act as a backup assistant to help transfer everything on your Samsung smart phone to PC as a backup. What's more, it can work as a SMS assistant as well, which allows you to directly send text messages to others on computer.

Here are two free trail versions, please choose to download the Windows or Mac version according to your computer system. Then you can follow this guide to transfer photos between Samsung phone and computer as needed.

Guide to Copy Samsung Images from/to Computer with Samsung File Manager

After downloading and installing this software on your computer, please act as the steps to launch it. By the way, as the following guide will take the Windows version as an example, if you own a Mac computer, you can follow the similar steps to work it on Mac.

Step 1. Open this Program, Connect Samsung Phone to PC

Firstly, operate this program with double click. Then connect your Samsung Galaxy S2/S3/S4/S5/Note 2/Note 3 to computer via a USB cable. After getting a menu as follows, please enable USB debugging on your phone according to the steps. After that, press "USB debugging opened" and "Next", and this software will detect your Samsung phone immediately.

enable usb debugging

Step 2. Install USB Driver and Scan Samsung Phone

In this step, this software will install USB driver on your computer. So that it will be able to deeply scan your Samsung phone data. A few minutes later, all files on your Samsung cell phone will be arranged on the panel, including Apps, Music, Photo, Video, Book, Contacts, and so on.

main menu

Step 3. Selectively Transfer Photos Between Samsung Phone and Computer

Now, no matter what you want to export, just enter the corresponding folder. If you want to transfer photos between Samsung phone and computer, please hit the "Photo" option first. Then you will see there are several icons on the menu. If you need copy photos from computer to Samsung smart phone, you should touch the "Import" button. While, if you want to export pictures from Samsung to PC, you can mark your wanted photos and click "Export". Soon you will save all images on your computer without any loss.

What's more, if you want to take this iPubsoft Samsung File Manager program for more usages, such as backup contacts, send text messages, install apps, etc. I suggest you to download the free trial version and have a try first.

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