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Send videos from iPhone to PC

Send videos up to 1 GB from your iPhone to your PC without compression. No app or account.

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Apple doesn’t make AirDrop for Windows, so the usual routes from an iPhone to a PC are a cable with a “Trust this computer” prompt, or syncing everything through iCloud. Videos are the hard part: a minute of 4K phone video is a few hundred megabytes, far over email limits, and chat apps compress it.

The quick way, with fdrop

  1. 1

    Open fdrop.cc on the iPhone

    Open fdrop.cc in Safari, tap the drop area, choose Photo Library and pick the videos.

  2. 2

    Open fdrop.cc on the PC

    On the same Wi-Fi, the videos appear under “On your network” automatically. Anywhere else, send yourself the link fdrop gives you.

  3. 3

    Download

    Downloads go to your Downloads folder.

fdrop “On your network” list on a Windows PC showing a photo, a video and a PDF sent from an iPhone
What the PC sees: everything sent from the iPhone on the same Wi-Fi, ready to download.

Other ways, and their catch

USB cable and the Windows Photos app

Connect the iPhone with a cable, unlock it and tap Trust. Then open the Photos app on Windows and choose Import → From a connected device.

Good: Full quality, no internet needed. Catch: Needs the right cable, trust prompts often fail on the first try, and HEIC photos or HEVC videos may need extra codecs to open.

iCloud Photos

Turn on iCloud Photos on the iPhone, wait for it to upload, then sign in at icloud.com or install iCloud for Windows on the PC.

Good: Automatic once it’s set up. Catch: Only 5 GB free, uploads can take a long time, and you have to sign into your Apple ID on the other device.

WhatsApp or Telegram to yourself

Send it to your own chat (Message yourself in WhatsApp, Saved Messages in Telegram) and open WhatsApp or Telegram on the PC.

Good: You probably have the app already. Catch: WhatsApp compresses photos and videos unless you send them as a Document or pick HD, and it fills your chat history.

Email it to yourself

Attach it (or paste it) in an email to yourself and open the email on the PC.

Good: Works on every device. Catch: Gmail attachments stop at 25 MB and Outlook.com at 20 MB, so most videos won’t fit.

Good to know

Questions

How do I send videos from iPhone to PC without a cable?

Open fdrop.cc on both devices, pick the videos on the iPhone and download them on the PC. No app or account needed. Of the built-in options, USB cable and the Windows Photos app is the closest, with the trade-offs listed above.

Will the videos lose quality?

No. fdrop doesn’t compress, resize or re-encode anything. The only change can come from the iPhone itself, which may hand Safari a JPEG copy of HEIC photos depending on your settings.

Do the iPhone and PC need to be on the same Wi-Fi?

Only for the automatic “On your network” list. If the PC is somewhere else or on mobile data, copy the link fdrop gives you and open it there.

Do I need to install an app?

No. fdrop runs in Safari on the iPhone and Edge or Chrome on the PC. Nothing to install and no account.

How long do the files stay online?

2 hours by default. Pick 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days before uploading, or delete them yourself at any time from the device you uploaded on.

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