How to Transfer Files from Phone to PC Without Losing Quality, by Tech Whop on YouTube. 1 min.
- Video length
- 1 min
- Time to do it
- 10 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 10
What you need
Steps
Pick your method. Use a USB cable for large batches, LocalSend for wireless transfers over Wi-Fi, or Quick Share if you have a Samsung phone or a Windows PC.
Plug a data-capable USB cable into your phone and your PC. A charge-only cable will power the phone but show no files.
On the phone, pull down the notification shade and tap the USB notification. Choose File Transfer or MTP. Leaving it on Charging only hides the files.
On Windows, open File Explorer and click your phone under This PC. On a Mac, open Android File Transfer or the Finder window for the phone.
Open the DCIM folder, then Camera, and select the photos and videos you want. Copy them into a folder on your PC rather than moving them.
For a wireless transfer, install LocalSend on both the phone and the PC and connect both to the same Wi-Fi network.
Open LocalSend on the phone, tap Send, select your files, tap your PC in the device list, then accept the transfer on the PC.
For Quick Share, open the Quick Share app on Windows or the built-in version on a Samsung phone, select the files and choose the other device as the target.
Check the quality. Right-click a copied photo, choose Properties, and compare the file size with the original. The same size means nothing was compressed.
Eject the phone safely from your PC before unplugging the cable, so no file is cut off halfway through.
Tips and common mistakes
Never send photos through chat apps like WhatsApp or Messenger if you want full quality, because they shrink the file.
Keep both devices on the same Wi-Fi network for LocalSend, and stay on that network until the transfer finishes.
Copy files instead of moving them, so the originals stay on your phone until you have checked the copies.
Turn off any cloud backup that resizes photos before you transfer, or your PC copy may already be reduced.
Questions
Why are my transferred photos smaller than the originals?
A compression step happened somewhere, usually a chat app, email or a cloud service that resizes uploads. Copy the files by cable or LocalSend and compare the file sizes to confirm nothing changed.
Does LocalSend need an internet connection?
No. It works over your local Wi-Fi network, so the files never leave your home and there is no size limit from a cloud service.
Can I transfer files from an iPhone to a Windows PC?
Yes. Use a Lightning or USB-C cable and open the phone in File Explorer, or install LocalSend on the iPhone and the PC and send over Wi-Fi.
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