How do we move photos and videos taken on an iPhone to a MacOS computer? Yes, I know it’s probably an extremely routine thing I should be embarrassed not to know, but
• I am not the iPhone user and do not own or use an iPhone
• She who does is not here and I don’t have the serial number so Apple support chat won’t tell me
• I’d walk to the Apple Store and ask in person but it’s raining dammit
I assume it has something to do with “Synching” but I can’t take it for granted she knows how to “Synch” either. If she plugs her iPhone into her Mac will the pix and videos just magically shoot over to the Mac? (Where do we find them afterwards, if it does? I need to know on a filepath/ folder kind of level, insofar as the idea is for her to send a batch of them to MY computer. So telling me “in iPhoto” won’t help… is there a folder it dumps all iPhone goodies into when it Synchs?
I can plug my BlackBerry into my computer and there is a utility for moving stuff from the phone to the computer. But if you’re only looking at a few pics, why not email them to yourself?
Anytime you plug the phone into the computer (e.g. to charge it), the computer automatically syncs the data on the phone into iTunes. The default setting is to back up all pictures and data. Not sure how you actually find them once they’re on the PC, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s integrated into iPhotos or the new Photos app.
Another alternative is that you can mail or share the photos directly from the phone.
I use Image Capture. Just Spotlight search it, have your phone plugged in, and it should show up under “Devices” on the left. You can then download them to the folder of your choice (Pictures is default, but you can change that under the “Import to” drop-down menu on the bottom. I could swear there was an “erase after importing” option, as well, but I don’t see it right now for some reason. You can also use something like iPhoto, but I like Image Capture because it’s lightweight and lets me quickly and easily put photos where I want them. Adobe Lightroom also lets you import from the phone, but that’s a third-party program you have to pay for and most likely don’t have on your computer.
This. Just sign up for a free iCloud account, sign into it from both the phone and the mac, and everything will just be there. If you have lots of pics, you might need to splurge $1/month to increase your storage from 5 to 20gb.
There are probably 400 pictures. The person who owns the iPhone is not a tech whiz, and I myself am not up to speed on iPhones. She knows how to email one individual picture, one picture at a time. Movies are too big to email.
I suppose I could do the iCloud thing but I’m running MacOS 10.6.8 (yeah, still) and therefore we’d have to move them to her computer from her phone and then email them to me…
Hmm, I do seem to have ‘Image Capture’ on my Mac. I’ll try that.
Yes, Image Capture is standard on all Macs. There is even an “Import All” button, so you can import all 400 easily.
ETA: Looks like Apple, in all their wisdom, decided to remove the “Delete” button from Image Capture for whatever reason.
ETA2: Nevermind. There’s that “Ghostbusters” sign on the bottom that lets you delete. I could swear there used to be a “delete after import option” before. So carry on.
Connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable.
Click on “My Computer” - look at “Devices with Removable Storage” - your iPhone will show up as an external device. Click that open.
Open up the folders until you find the one with your pictures. There will be a number of them with random letters for the name.
Copy/Paste the photos & videos to your computer.
Do just a few at a time, if you try to move hundreds of pictures at once it will take a long time and it might not copy everything over. Check the folder on your computer where you put them just to make sure everything is there before you delete them off your phone.
And fail at step one, since the OP said the user was on Mac OS.
Just plug the phone in to the computer. If it’s recent enough, iPhoto or Photos will open, and there will be a a big “Import” button (or it will just happen automatically).
If it doesn’t, open “Image Capture” as above and click the “Import” button there. In either case, the phone is being treated like any other camera.