How to Print Photos from iPhone

Taking photos with an iPhone is one of the favorite things to do in daily life, especially when you are traveling, attending families or friends parties or just walking on the street. However, sometimes, if you just want printed photos that you can hold in hand or carry anywhere, what to do next?

If you have an AirPrint-enabled printer, you can print photos from your iPhone via AirPrint with ease. If you have no portable printer for iPhone by yourself, doesn’t matter, here we also collect other solutions that may help you fix it.

Part 1. How to Print Photos from iPhone Directly via AirPrint

Some AirPrint compatible printers allow you to print photos, text messages, notes and more from your iPhone or iPad running iOS 4.2 or higher. So if you have AirPrint compatible printers of your own or nearby, Printing photos from iPhone is fairly easy. What you should do is follow these steps below to print the wished photos from your iPhone in a simple way.

1. Open Photos app on your iPhone
2. Tap on a photo you want to print
3. Tap the Share button at the bottom-left corner of the iPhone screen
4. Tap Print (The iPhone will automatically detect and list nearby AirPrint-enabled printers, so you can select and print to them.)

Part 2. Print Photos from iPhone via a Printed-enabled App

If you have no AirPrint-enabled printers available abound you, you can also use an app that enables you to upload your photos to a nearby store with a photo-printing service, allowing you to pick them up. The Walgreens app offers the feature that you print photos from your iPhone and pick them up on the same day.

Download Walgreens on the computer > Transfer Photos from your iPhone to the computer > Upload photos on the computer to Walgreens Photo Center > Select the size of the photo you want to print (Order professionally-developed wallet-sized, 4×6″, 5×7″, 8×10″, or poster prints of any photo in your account, on Real Photographic Paper in a glossy finish.) > Pick these photos up at a Walgreens store near you an hour later, or have them shipped straight.

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Part 3. How to Print Photos from iPhone through a Computer

The former 2 methods can print photos from your iPhone but not everyone has the AirPrint-enabled printers or Walgreens app. So here we offer a common method – printing iPhone photos through a computer. First, you should do is to transfer pictures from the iPhone to your computer, and then select photos to print by the printer which is connected to your computer.

However, one thing is, importing photos from your iPhone to the computer via iPhoto/Photos possibly results in photos loss and have no way to recover. Therefore, you need a reliable & safe method to do this. Here it is recommended you just try AnyTrans to copy photos from your iPhone to computer without data loss.

Step 1. Download AnyTrans on your computer > Run AnyTrans > Connect your iPhone to the computer > Click Photos > Select photos you want > Click To PC icon.

Step 2. After this, open photos on your computer > select photos and connected printer by your computer to print photos.

The Bottom Line

Although we list 3 methods to print photos from your iPhone in this guide, Part 3 is recommended for its low-cost and practicality. If you are planning to buy your own photo-printer, give it some thought first. The cost of a printer, photo paper, and ink can be significant. If you want to try Walgreens to print your iPhone photos, you need to take ages to figure out how to download and use it and find the Walgreen store nearby. Put simply, using a computer to print photos from your iPhone is the best way to go.