Here’s what I did:ĭownload the Google Pictures from the Apple App Store app on your phone. But you may also need to download an Adobe reader on the Chromebook. I have to agree: the best method to access pictures you’ve taken on your iPhone and wanting to access them on a Chromebook is to download Google Pictures on your iPhone. And once you have your iPhone photos on Google’s cloud, you can easily access them on a Chromebook, or any other device with a browser, for that matter. This also helps free up storage space on your iPhone because the app will occasionally ask if it can delete the local copies. Google provides free cloud storage for your images up to 16MP and 1080p for video, so you don’t have to use or pay for extra iCloud storage. I actually recommend this even for iPhone users who don’t have a Chromebook for a few reasons. The easiest method is to just install the free Google Photos app for iOS on to an iPhone.

Truth be told, it’s actually quite easy to move photos from an iOS to a Chrome OS device and there are two simple ways to do it.

Some folks may think this type of cross-platform photo sharing is a challenge, but as I’ve pointed out before, you can be a happy iPhone owner that uses a Chromebook.

Over the US holiday weekend, I was asked on Twitter how to connect an iPhone to a Chromebook to move photos.

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