Photos app show original and edited when importing

Firstly, thanks for your thoughts about this. Appreciate the input.

So I've updated to 11.6 (11.6.1 not available). To answer your question I have the setting to High Efficiency.

So here are some interesting findings. First, 11.6 hasn't done anything. The 'feature' persists ie. the original and edited photos appear as two separate files to upload.

However, I just found that this happens when, as part of my editing, I switch off the Live feature. If I edit (on phone) the photo, but leave the Live Photo feature, only one image is available to import.

It is a strange behaviour and I'll raise it as an issue, but I can live with importing the image as a Live Photo and then batch 'turn off' once in Photos (Mac).

Thanks for the reply. I'm using the stock Photos iOS app to do my edits. I understand non-destructive editing. But once I finished editing I want to only export the final image. I don't see how I can filter out originals (but only if they're edited as I will have unedited pictures too).

I can select photos I want to export, which is laborious as I need to spot the detail in Info box.

I could use Showing filter 'Edited', but again, some photos will not have been edited.

If I download the edited photos only, the originals still appear to download when select 'my device'. They don't move to the duplicates section up top.

I can download all photos, but I would have to go back and delete duplicates, with no simple way of doing it.

I hope I I've explained the scenario adequately.

iOS 15.0.2

Mac OS 11.5.2

Photos 6.0

Following your example, when I connect my phone via USB to my Mac, and in Photos I select the device to view the pictures to import, I would see 3 pictures. The unedited one, the original photo and the edited one.

To be sure I just replicated your case. I had a new picture on my phone. I connected the to the Mac and saw just the one picture to import. I disconnected the phone, edited the photo (in Photos iOS), reconnected the phone and see two images to import - original and edited.

This is manageable if it is just a few photos, but if I have a holiday-worth of edited photos, then it is quite a pain to import them all, and either put up with seeing two versions of the images or going back and selecting the version I want to keep.

I appreciate your help, but please don't be condescending. I am an amateur photographer so I know there is a time and place for keeping originals. My use case is I'm using my iPhone to take family photos so once I do some cropping, lighting etc, I don't need the originals.

I use Photos app on my Mac.

I'm using USB-Lightning.

I would say it is a fault in the import of Photos, especially that I'm using entirely stock Apple apps. If the intention is to maintain the original, then why would it not import the single photo, but maintain the original. For example, if I imported a photo, edited via Photo app, then the single photo would be visible rather than two. It is only when importing does Photos (Mac) see two unique files.

My use case doesn't seem particularly unique. I take a photo on my iPhone, using its regular camera app. I use a filter or crop it in iOS Photos. I then import it to Mac Photos, to save phone space, put into an album, and to back up.

I simple ask if there is a workflow people have found that negates having to choose individual photos to import.