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How to Copy Music, Images, and Movies from Your Computer to an iPhone on Windows

This wikiHow teaches you how to add music, photos, and videos from your Windows computer to your iPhone. You'll need to use iTunes to do this, so make sure you install iTunes if it isn't already on your computer. Connect your iPhone to...
Part 1 of 4:

Connecting Your iPhone

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    Connect your iPhone to your computer. Attach the USB end of your charger cable to your computer, then plug the charger into your iPhone.
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    Open iTunes. Double-click the iTunes program icon, which resembles a multicolored musical note on a white background.
    1. If prompted to update iTunes, click Download iTunes and then restart your computer before proceeding.
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    Click Trust this computer if prompted. You may also have to tap this on your iPhone's screen.
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    Click your iPhone's icon. It's the iPhone-shaped button in the upper-left side of the iTunes window, just below the Account tab. This will open your iPhone's page. You're now ready to begin uploading music to your iPhone.
Part 2 of 4:

Copying Music

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    Click File. It's in the top-left corner of the iTunes window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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    Click Add Folder to Library. This option is near the middle of the drop-down menu. Clicking it prompts a pop-up window to appear.
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    Select your music folder. Click the folder in which your music is stored. You'll find it on the left side of the pop-up window.
    1. If your music is stored inside of a subfolder, you may have to select the main folder and then double-click the subfolder in the main window to get to your music folder.
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    Click Select Folder. This button is in the bottom-right corner of the window. Doing so will begin importing your music.
    1. It may take awhile for iTunes to register all of your music.
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    Click the Music tab. It's in the "Settings" section of tabs on the left side of the iTunes window.
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    Check the "Sync Music" box. You'll find this at the top of the page.
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    Check the "Entire music library" box. This will ensure that all of the music from your selected folder and any subfolders will be uploaded to your iPhone.
    1. You can also check the "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" box and then check specific categories if you only want to upload some of the music from the folder you added.
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    Click Apply. It's in the bottom-right corner of the page. Your music will begin uploading to your iPhone; once it finishes, you're free to move on to uploading images.
Part 3 of 4:

Copying Images

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    Click Photos. This tab is in the left-hand sidebar below the "Settings" heading.
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    Check the "Sync Photos" box. It's at the top of the Sync Photos page. Doing so will allow you to add photos from your computer to your iPhone.
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    Click the "Copy photos from:" drop-down box. You'll find this option near the top of the Sync Photos page. A drop-down menu will appear.
    1. The default folder is your computer's "Pictures" folder. If this is the folder you want to use, skip the next two steps.
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    Click Choose folder…. It's at the top of the drop-down menu.
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    Select a folder. Click the folder from which you want to upload photos, then click Select Folder. This will choose the folder you selected as the only place from which your iPhone takes photos during this sync period.
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    Select subfolders if need be. If the picture folder you selected has one or more folders in it that you don't want photos from, check the "Selected folders" radio button and then check each folder you want to use to upload photos.
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    Determine whether or not you want to include videos. Check the "Include videos" box in the middle of the page to upload videos in your selected folder, or leave the box unchecked to upload only pictures.
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    Click Apply. Your selected photos will begin uploading to your iPhone. Once the photos finish uploading, you can move on to uploading videos.
    1. This process may take awhile.
Part 4 of 4:

Copying Videos

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    Click File. It's in the top-left corner of the iTunes window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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    Click Add Folder to Library. You'll find this option near the middle of the drop-down menu. Clicking it brings up a pop-up window.
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    Select your videos folder. Click the folder in which your computer's videos are stored. You'll find this in the left-hand sidebar of the window.
    1. If your videos folder is stored inside of a subfolder, you may have to select the main folder and then double-click the subfolder in the main window to get to your videos folder.
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    Click Select Folder. It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. This will import your selected videos into iTunes.
    1. This process will likely take several minutes.
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    Click the Movies tab. You'll find this below the Music tab on the left side of the iTunes window.
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    Check the "Sync Movies" box. It's at the top of the page.
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    Check the "Automatically include" box. Doing so will select every video that you imported into iTunes for uploading onto your iPhone.
    1. If you'd rather only upload a few videos from your selected folder, click the checkbox next to each video you want to upload instead.
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    Click Apply. Your selected videos will begin uploading to your iPhone.
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