The Amazon Kindle Fire is the perfect device to use to show off your photos. You’ll have to get your beloved photos over to the device first though. You can transfer pictures from PC to Kindle Fire using these steps.
- Connect the device to your computer using a USB cable. Since it doesn’t come with one, you will need to either purchase one or use one you may have from another device like your smartphone.
- Once the Kindle Fire is connected to your computer. If not, disconnect the cable and try again (I had to try 3 times before it worked). Windows users should know that the OS will attempt to install a device driver and fail. This is fine and shouldn’t have an effect on performing these steps.
- The Kindle Fire will now show up as a removable disk drive. Windows users can look under “Computer“/”My Computer”. Mac users can look on the desktop. Open the “KINDLE” drive. You will see a folder named “Pictures“. You can drag and drop any of your pictures to this folder. You can even drag entire folders to the “Pictures” folder and they will stay organized on the device as well.
- Wait for all pictures to transfer from the PC to the Kindle Fire. Once it’s completed, tap “Disconnect” on the device to unmount the it from the computer, then disconnect the cable.
- You can now go to “Apps” > “Gallery” on the Kindle Fire to view your photos.
WindsurferLA says
January 24, 2018 at 1:24 amThis may not be the exact place to put this info, but better posted than silent. Lots of posts about how to transfer .jpg from Win7 to Kindle Fire. Win7 originally would not recognize Kindle Fire USB connection. After I found and installed, “AmazonDriveSetup.exe” , file transfer was a snap.
Jeannie says
April 3, 2017 at 11:24 pmI have uploaded photos from my pc to my kindle file. I cannot find the gallery apt. on my kindle. Please help
Madeline Meister says
January 3, 2016 at 12:39 pmI’ve done these steps and found the picture folder was empty, even though I checked again and there are 300 pictures on my Kindle.What am I missing?
Judith philips says
October 30, 2015 at 6:08 pmI open the kindle file. I get internal storage. I click on that and get a bunch of folders. One is pictures. I click on that. I get facebook or twitter. I want to transfer a photo from my laptop to kindle fire hdx PHOTOS, not facebook nor twitter.
TonyHooper says
October 21, 2015 at 8:49 amVery helpful..all the other articles I have read made the process v ery daunting !
eddie says
October 20, 2015 at 3:05 pmgreat info, wish everything was so easy. thanks
Andrew Paterson says
September 24, 2015 at 4:25 amThanks for this. A helping hand!
Andrew
Tony Z... says
August 23, 2015 at 5:32 pmWhen I open my Kindle Plus, and have a USB cable attached, I do not find a Pictures directory on the Kindle. I have looked in the folders that were there but nothing. I am certain that I running the current software for Kindle. My PC is running Windows 7, 64 bit. Can you help me?
Dusty says
August 2, 2015 at 5:11 amWill they be stored in the cloud or on the device
Mary Gordon says
June 26, 2015 at 9:29 amDitto the previous comments. This made it soooo easy. Thanks a million!!!
Olivia says
June 17, 2015 at 3:08 pmDear whomever posted this,
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH I WISH THERE WAS A LIKE BUTTON OR SOMETHING BUT SINCE THERE ISNT IM LEAVING A REPLY TO TELL YOU HOW THAT ITS GREAT. (Sorry, caps lock was on.)
Anyways, it really helped a lot!!! :-D
Thanks again,
-New Kindle Owner