Q: Do iPhone-edited photos import to Mac Photos or not?
I've edited hundreds of photos while on vacation from my iPhone. I have since turned off iCloud photo streaming and only recently decided to delete all photos from my iPhone since I was syncing them through iTunes as well as importing them to Photos.
iTunes sync seemed to be leaving some duplicates on my phone (or Mac, or both).
Now I learn Photos does not import the edited versions of iPhone photos?
1. Is that correct, and if so is there a way to "Find" edited photos on the Mac's Photos?
2. Is there a way to retrieve 'lost' edited photos from my Time Machine backups (that hopefully contain my iPhone backups from iTunes)?
Thank you
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), 16gb RAM / 1tb int'l - 1tb ext'l
Posted on May 11, 2016 2:37 AM
1 - yes that is correct - MyPhotoStream sends the initial un-edited photos - to finding them look in your recently deleted photos
2 - no Time Machine does not backup your IOS devices - if you do an iTunes backup to yoru Mac that backup will be saved on TM- if you have iCloud Backup on then there is a backup on iCloud -- How to back up your devices using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support
And if you both sync using iTunes and import the same photos you will have duplicates - you should only import them once using one method\
If you want everything you do on your IOS devices to be done on your Mac then iCloud Photo Library is the solution - with it all libraries are kept in sync and all changes (additions, deletions or edits) made on any device are made on all devices
LN
Posted on May 11, 2016 6:18 AM