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Q: Photos from mac to iphone through Photos.app

I've got an iPhone 4 & a 2014 Macbook Air.  I've imported a bunch of photos from my DSLR camera into the new Photos app (that replaced iPhoto) but I can't get them onto my iPhone.  In iPhoto, I could share them through iCloud or when my iPhone was connected via USB to my Mac, I could drag them across.  Is there any way to do a similar thing in Photos?  I don't want to pay for extra iCloud space & an iPhone 4 can't use iOS 8.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 2, 2015 11:51 PM

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Q: Photos from mac to iphone through Photos.app

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 3, 2015 12:50 AM in response to maa94
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    Jun 3, 2015 12:50 AM in response to maa94
    I could share them through iCloud or when my iPhone was connected via USB to my Mac, I could drag them across.  Is there any way to do a similar thing in Photos?  I don't want to pay for extra iCloud space & an iPhone 4 can't use iOS 8.

    You can still use Photo Stream to sync with the iPhone. But you cannot enable it selectively to download from the iPhone. It will also upload all new photos.

     

    Have you tried to sync the photos to the iPhone with iTunes as described here?

     

      Sync photos to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in iTunes - Apple Support

  • by maa94,

    maa94 maa94 Jun 3, 2015 6:03 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 3, 2015 6:03 AM in response to léonie

    I can't find anywhere in Photos where it says to share/send via Photo Stream.

    Also, my iPhone is synced with another iTunes library, so that doesn't work either.  I don't want to have to move everything off my other laptop just to add a couple of photos here & there.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 3, 2015 6:26 AM in response to maa94
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    Jun 3, 2015 6:26 AM in response to maa94
    I can't find anywhere in Photos where it says to share/send via Photo Stream.

    You enable My Photo Stream in the Photos > Preferences > iCloud.

    If you do that any photo you add to your Photos Library will be added to My Photo Stream automatically.  And any Photo added on another device will download automatically.

     

    If you want to upload photos from several Macs create a shared Photo Album. You can share photos to this album from both macs and browse the album on your iPhone.

     

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786