Q&A for How to Upload Photos from a Cell Phone

With an iPhone, as long as you're using iCloud Photo Library you never have to manually transfer anything. Any photos taken will upload to the cloud and download to your Mac without any user involvement. In other situations your phone can be plugged directly to your computer. With a Mac, just open the Photos app and you should see your iPhone in the side bar. Select the phone and import whichever photos you'd like.

If you're using Windows 10, the Photos app will provide the ability to import photos from your iPhone or Android. Just plug your phone directly into the computer, click on the notification banner asking which action to take, and choose Import.

You don't need internet connection. Plug your phone into your computer and follow the on-screen instructions.

It depends on the program you are using, but most of them will have have a drop-down box with "Attach photos" option under the Edit tab. The "Attach" button may also just be a paper clip symbol. Click it and it should allow you to find which file you need and add it to the document.

Connect the device to the laptop via the USB cable. In the case of a Mac, the photos will open automatically. From there, select the Import tab, choose the photos you would like to transfer, and select Import. The process should take a few seconds to a minute or two. If you are using a Windows computer, go into your file explorer and find your phone that is now connected. Open that and find your photos, then copy or move them to wherever you'd like.

Use mobile apps like Xender or Shareit that have a Connect To PC feature over Wi-Fi Hotspot and link your devices through that Hotspot. Follow the instructions on the apps on connecting your computer via the browser and you can download the files like downloading from the internet. You don't need a cable anymore.