(You'll likely need the OneDrive app installed on your device to do this.) Step 2: On your phone, open the photo in your default viewer and then share it to the new OneDrive folder. The following instructions are ideal for those who use the free OneDrive account: Keep in mind that you don’t necessarily need to have OneDrive upload all photos from your phone. OneDrive is listed on the left along with the associated synchronized folders. If you sync the folder to your PC, photos are accessible using File Explorer.

This method is ideal for iPhone owners, as Microsoft and Apple do not provide a similar Your Phone app service. Set OneDrive to upload your photos to the cloud, and then either download the pictures using a desktop web browser or synchronize the cloud folder to your PC.

You can use any cloud service like Google Drive and Dropbox, but OneDrive is native to Windows 10, so there’s nothing to install other than the mobile apps. Get a photo onto your Windows PC using OneDrive Step 3: When File Explorer appears on the screen, select a destination on your PC and click the Save button. Take an extra screen anywhere: This 14-inch portable monitor is $70 off Windows 12: the top features we want to see in the rumored OS

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