Chapter 17
Fiddling with Photos, Videos, and Phones
IN THIS CHAPTER
Copying your photos and videos from your camera or phone to your computer
Taking photos with your computer’s camera
Connecting your phone with the Your Phone app
Viewing photos in your Pictures folder
For years, Windows graciously offered to import your photos as soon as you plugged in your camera. When Windows 10 arrived, though, that feature fell by the wayside. To make up for past mistakes, Windows 11 now offers at least five ways to import photos from your camera and smartphone.
This chapter walks you through the easiest ways to copy your digital photos and videos from your phone or camera to your computer. From there, you can show them off to friends and family, email them to distant relatives, and save them in places where you can easily relocate them.
One final note: After you’ve begun creating a digital family album on your computer, please take steps to back it up properly by turning on File History or OneDrive, the automatic backup features in Windows that I describe in Chapter 13. Computers come and go, ...
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