3 Best Ways to Transfer Photos to iPad from Any Sources

"I just gifted an iPad to my son as a birthday gift today. We had a very wonderful day and took a lot of wonderful family pictures with camera. My son is very happy. He wanted to sync photos to iPad to store these photos on iPad for convenient future review. I have tried iTunes and found it troublesome to do this. Is there any way or better software to help transfer pictures to iPad from camera directly?" 

There are always questions like the above one. In fact, I have written a post about transferring pictures from computer to iPad. In this post, I would like to talk about transferring pictures to iPad from various sources. The large screen and the high screen resolution of iPad make it really wonderful choice to view pictures. Thus, it is quite common for iPad users to wander how to transfer pictures to iPad from camera, computer, iTunes, Android devices, Microsoft Windows devices, and many other devices to realize picture sharing easily. So, is there any way to sync photos to iPad from various sources? Of course Yes. The below three ways are the most convenient methods I could think to help you easily and freely transfer photos to iPad.

The first method is to use iCloud. iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. The service allows you to store data such as music files on remote computer servers for download to multiple devices such as iOS-based devices (except older iPhones), and personal computers running OS X or Microsoft Windows. What you need is only an Apple ID and WiFi network connectivity. Once you take photos with iPhone, you can sync photos to iPad via iCloud quickly. The disadvantage of iCloud is that it only supports to transfer pictures to iPad from computer and Apple products like iTunes, iPhone and iPod. You can't directly sync photos to iPad from your camera. 

Secondly, I would like to recommend iTunes. As the control center of all Apple iOS devices like iPod, iPhone and iPad, iTunes could help you easily transfer pictures to iPad from other iOS devices and computer. It could connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and movie rentals, ringtones and download application from the App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But, if you want to transfer pictures to iPad from camera, you have to firstly move pictures in camera to computer folder or iTunes and then iTunes could help you transfer pictures to ipad, which makes the transferring a little bit troublesome. 

Well, it seems that iCloud and iTunes both could not perform well exactly on transferring pictures to iPad directly from camera. We have to look for some third-party tools to do this. From my personal experience, I would like to recommend a professional iPad photo transfer app. This iPad photo transfer program could be considered as enhanced iTunes. It could sync photos to iPad from iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTune, computer, and other non-iOS devices like Android smartphones, tablets, cameras, etc. Transferring pictures to iPad from camera is very easy with this iPad photo transfer. After starting this program on computer, you only need to drag pictures or folders in camera directly to Photo option under iPad device inside this app, no other operations needed. 

We can't say which one of the above three methods is the best. Different people have different requirements. The method that meets your requirements most would be your best choice. 

Top 3 iPad Photo Transfer Apps to Help You Easily Transfer Photos to iPad

As known to all, iPhone takes great photos with its 5-megapixel and auto-focus camera. These photos capture the important event or save your precious memories. Also, we may get a lot of wonderful pictures on our camera, computer, iTunes or other devices. It is a good idea to transfer photos to iPad for backup, editing, or enjoying on the big screen of iPad. While talking about to transfer pictures to iPad from computer or other devices, the first method appearing in our mind must be to use iTunes, which is widely known for its ability to transfer files between various iOS devices and iTunes.

Actually, the fact is that iTunes is not applicable to all devices. Files in some non-iOS devices couldn’t be transferred via iTunes. Also, in order to protect its copyright, iTunes blocks you to transfer contents from iPad and other devices back to computer. Thus, a third-party program which could help easily transfer photos to iPad is needed to help you to do the fever. Such kind of iPad photo transfer apps could not only transfer pictures to iPad from iTunes and computer, but also sync photos to iPad from other devices, like Android smartphones, BlackBerry phones, Windows phones, etc. The below three iPad photo transfer apps are the most used ones. You can choose the one that meets your requirements most.

The first one is of course iTunes. As the control center of all Apple iOS devices like iPod, iPhone and iPad, iTunes could help you easily transfer pictures to iPad from other iOS devices and computer. iTunes is a multi-functional powerful app. It could connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and movie rentals, ringtones and download application from the App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But, iTunes can't transfer music from one portable device to another. Also, you can't delete photos synced with iTuness directly on iPad. To delete these photos, you need return to your computer, delete the photos you don't want anymore from the sync folder, and sync again.

Though iTunes has some limitations, it is undeniable that iTunes is still the first choice for it is the official data transferring and managing app from Apple. However, there are still many other wonderful apps to transfer photos to iPad without any limitations and without the use of iTunes. iTransfer from Leawo Software is suck kind of iPad photo transfer app. Acting like an updated iTunes, this professional data transferring app could sync photos to iPad from iPod, iPhone, iTunes, the new iPad, computer, and other non-iOS devices like Android smartphones, tablets, etc. After transferring, you can directly delete synced photos on iPad at will.

The above two apps are no doubt very powerful tools which could realize batch photo transferring to iPad, while Photo Transfer App by ERCLab. LLC allows you to easily download photos from your iPhone or iPad to your computer as well as exchange photos from and to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. This iPad photo transfer app transfer photos over WiFi, no cables or extra software required. This photo transfer allows you to transfer up to 200 photos to transfer at one time.

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