iPhone photo import

[dawks]

I am trying to manually import photos from my iPhone, but a huge portion of them are not visible in the import wizard, either on Mac OS/X using Photos.app or on Windows using Picasa.. It looks like the iPhone is hiding them (maybe because it thinks they have already been imported somewhere??).

How can I change this?

I recently took a trip and I want to import all the photos taken at my destination into one folder, but they arent even visible in the import wizards...

iPhone 6, iOS 9.2, Mac OS 10.10 and 10.11, and Windows 7.

 

[CA19100]

Is it possible that they were uploaded via Photo Stream, and area already in your Photos library?

In any case, if you want to pull all the photos off the phone, plug it into the Mac and run the Image Capture app. That should do exactly what you need. (It should already be installed.)

 

[dawks]

Thanks, already tried the Image Capture app.. same problem. Since the images are also hidden from Picasa on the PC, im thinking it's the iphone hiding them.

I might have to do with Photo Stream, or OneDrive (which I have set to upload images). I'm thinking the iPhone sets a 'this photo has been imported/uploaded' bit and then hides the photos from re-import.

I want to import the photos, then have the import delete the imported ones. I could probably survive with the images that have been uploaded to OneDrive, but now I'll have to go through and manually delete them all.

 

[TheStu]

On the phone, when you look in Photos, what 'folder' are the missing pictures in?

 

[dawks]

On the phone, when you look in Photos, what 'folder' are the missing pictures in?

Im seeing them all in 'Camera Roll'

 

[TheStu]

Are others from Camera Roll porting over? Are the missing pictures in a lump, or sprinkled throughout the Camera Roll?

 

[dawks]

Are others from Camera Roll porting over? Are the missing pictures in a lump, or sprinkled throughout the Camera Roll?

I think they might be in 'lumps'. not randomly distributed.

 

[TheStu]

I think they might be in 'lumps'. not randomly distributed.

I'm going to be honest, i'm not sure what that says one way or another. Maybe cloud uploads that failed?

 

[timswim78]

You could backup the iPhone with iTunes. Then use a utility, like iPhone Backup Analyzer, to extract the photos.

 

[Tegeril]

Just use AirDrop to move them all at once from the phone. Multi-select the images in the Photos app, and AirDrop them over to your Mac.

As for the root cause of the problem, you got me.

 

[dawks]

Just use AirDrop to move them all at once from the phone. Multi-select the images in the Photos app, and AirDrop them over to your Mac.

As for the root cause of the problem, you got me.

Unfortunately only my iPhone has airdrop support. My 2010 Macbook and iPad 4 doesnt support it.

Im curious as to why the photos are hidden from computers. I know at one point some import software would have a checkmark for "hide previously imported photos" but I dont see that in Photos.app, and I havent previously imported any of these. The closest thing would be that I have the OneDrive app set to automatically backup all my photos. Perhaps that is marking them as imported.

Looks like I might just have to manually manage them from the OneDrive backup and delete them manually from my iPhone.