Q: photos and pictures on my iphone 6 to my iMac
I have not had any success with transferring pictures from my iphone 6 to my iMac into a designated folder. They can be synched into a program called photos, however I cannot move, transfer, alter or otherwise do anything with them. How do I take them off the phone and transfer them to a predesignated folder that I have control over?
I do NOT and WILL NOT use icloud
iMac, iOS 9.3.5, my phone is a iphone 6
Posted on Aug 28, 2016 3:00 PM
I have no such application, on my Mac or my phone. Nor does that solve the problem.
Image Capture is a standard application, that comes with any Mac. It is the basic tool to import photos to a Mac.
Because it is a standard application, the name of this application may be different, if the system language on your Mac is not set to English. For example, if the Mac is set to German, the app is called "Digitale Bilder"; if the language is set to French, the app is called "Transfert d'images", etc.
Whatever it is called on your Mac, you will find it in the Applications folder and recognize it by the camera icon:
Image Capture can transfer photos from iPhones or iPads to folders on your Mac. Just point Image Capture to the folder, where you want to save the photos. then you are free to use any photo editing application you like to edit the image files, and you can rearrange the folders as you like.
Your iPhone (or any newer iOS device) cannot be mounted on a Mac as an external drive like a SD Card or a camera. The file system on these devices is protected and can only be accessed by a selected few applications - Photos for Mac, iPhoto, Aperture, and Image Capture.
Posted on Aug 29, 2016 8:41 AM
