
Loading photos onto iPod
If you have an iPod with a color display, you can use iTunes to load photos onto your iPod from your computer. You can load all your photos or only selected ones.
The photos you load onto your iPod can be viewed only on your iPod or, with some models, on a television connected to your iPod. To copy photos to another computer, you need to also load the full-resolution image files onto your iPod (see step 5).
When you're loading songs or photos onto your iPod, make sure that your computer does not go to sleep.
To load photos onto your iPod:
- Connect your iPod to your computer using the cable that came with your iPod.
- When the iPod icon appears in the iTunes window, select it and click the Photos tab.
- Select the "Sync photos from" checkbox and choose the iPhoto album or a folder that contains the photos you want to copy from the pop-up menu (you must be using iPhoto 4.0.3 or later to import a photo album).
- Choose whether to copy all your photos and albums, or only selected albums. If you choose "Selected albums," select the albums you want to load onto your iPod.
- To load the full-resolution versions of these photos onto your iPod, select "Include full-resolution photos."
- Click OK.
It may take a while to load all your photos the first time you perform a sync. Subsequent syncs should take less time.
If you loaded full-resolution photos onto your iPod, to transfer them to another computer, select "Enable disk use" in the Summary pane. For more information, click "Storing or viewing files on any iPod or iTunes-enabled phone" below.
For more information about using your iPod to view photos, see the documentation that came with your iPod or visit the iPod website.
Related Topics
Storing or viewing files on any iPod or iTunes-enabled phone
Go to
Apple Service & Support article: "Photo Sync creates iPhoto photo cache"
Apple Service & Support article: "FAQ about Photo Sync"
