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Automatically download to PC

Images that have been uploaded to image.canon from your camera can be automatically downloaded to your PC. By simply uploading them wirelessly to image.canon from your camera, your images will be automatically backed up on your computer.

How to use

Please click here if you are using image.canon for the first time. If you have a Wi-Fi-compatible Canon camera, please connect it to image.canon.

First-time users

Install the PC software Downloader for image.canon on your computer. Launch the software, log in to image.canon, and set the save destination for downloaded images.

Wirelessly upload images to image.canon from your camera. All image files (still images, videos, and raw files) that have been uploaded directly from your camera can be automatically downloaded.

If an image upload to image.canon from your camera is detected by the Downloader for image.canon software, the original image files will be saved to the specified folder on your PC. Original files that have passed the storage expiration and have been deleted will not be downloaded.

Setting up Downloader for image.canon

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Operating environment	Windows 11 / Windows 10 / macOS 15 / macOS 14 / macOS 13
Setup procedure	Download the installer, and install the app. The program will automatically launch once installation is complete. The icon will be displayed on the taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (macOS). Click this icon to open the Operations menu, and then select "User authentication". The login screen will open in your browser. Log in with your Canon ID. The screen for setting the image save destination will open. Specify the save destination folder, and click [OK]. If there are new images from the camera on image.canon, the download will start automatically. After that, Downloader for image.canon will automatically launch when you log in to your PC. If you are using an old version, please close the currently running Downloader for image.canon application before running the installer. To close the app, click the icon in the Task Bar or Menu Bar and quit.

Operating environment

Windows 11 / Windows 10 / macOS 15 / macOS 14 / macOS 13

Setup procedure

Download the installer, and install the app. The program will automatically launch once installation is complete.
The icon will be displayed on the taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (macOS). Click this icon to open the Operations menu, and then select "User authentication". The login screen will open in your browser. Log in with your Canon ID.
The screen for setting the image save destination will open. Specify the save destination folder, and click [OK].
If there are new images from the camera on image.canon, the download will start automatically. After that, Downloader for image.canon will automatically launch when you log in to your PC.

If you are using an old version, please close the currently running Downloader for image.canon application before running the installer. To close the app, click the icon in the Task Bar or Menu Bar and quit.

Automatic download of images for which the still image sorting rules were used

You can combine the still image sorting rules created in the image.canon mobile app or browser with the Downloader for image.canon.

See here for details on the sorting rules

After creating the sorting rules, check [Create subfolders with the sorting rule names] in Downloader for image.canon.

Folders with sorting rule names and a folder for Image outside the rules are created on the PC.Images matching the sorting rules are downloaded to the folders with sorting rule names.Images that do not match any of the sorting rules are downloaded to the Image outside the rules folder.