Trusting an iPhone for importing video

Tom, this is how I have set things on my iPhone (I don't have other iPhones to test).

In the Finder, selecting the iPhone in the Sidebar, we get this:

The crucial thing is to uncheck the box about syncing (in red above).

I don't have access to an iPhone 13, so alas I cannot yet try anything with cinematic data.

This support document does say that it works with Image Capture, among others:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/motion/motn5aea30bb/mac

Tom Wolsky wrote:

That doesn’t sound good. Maybe you’re backing up to the cloud?

Actually, I am glad that it does not backup automatically. I have a lot of stuff on my iPhone (more than 100GB of 116GB used), but the things that are important (photos or videos, or important e-mails, for example) are always copied to my mac and backed up to Time Machine. There is really nothing on the iPhone that I could not afford to lose.

Each backup will take precious time and also space on my Mac internal drive.

My guess is that this may be tied to the sync preference. Since it does not sync automatically, it also does not backup automatically. But I do have the "Backup Now" button available.

As an aside, and not addressing the issue of iPhone "Trust" status, the poorly named iMazing app is very powerful and useful for getting video files (and other file types) off the iPhone > on to your desktop and managing them easily. It is like a Swiss Army Knife for iPhone/Mac file management.

I mention this as more and more material needs to be accessed from iPhones, and for me iMazing has been a big help.

MtD

I went ahead and made a backup - it used up some 55GB, which means it (very reasonably) did not copy the applications, but just the data. That's ok.

I had an issue in that the MobileSync folder had been replaced by an alias, and that caused the backup to fail at first. Maybe I tried to put those backups in an external drive some time ago, but I don't remember. When I deleted the alias and recreated the folder, the backup proceeded without issue.

I will see if it tries to do a new backup automatically or not.

Meg The Dog wrote:

As an aside, and not addressing the issue of iPhone "Trust" status, the poorly named iMazing app is very powerful and useful for getting video files (and other file types) off the iPhone > on to your desktop and managing them easily. It is like a Swiss Army Knife for iPhone/Mac file management.

I mention this as more and more material needs to be accessed from iPhones, and for me iMazing has been a big help.

MtD

I haven't tried this application, but I gather it is only useful for things that one would normally not be able to copy directly. Photos and videos we can copy easily with Image Capture, so for us using material recorded on the iPhone for editing I don't see the need. Maybe I am missing something.

I haven't worked with Cinematic video, so can't say. But it does work a treat for video shot with Filmic, etc.

And the direct cable connection to the device makes long video file transfers very fast.

Hopefully they have a free trial for you to confirm it works.

MtD

iMazing may be er… amazing but one can transfer videos recorded with Filmic Pro directly with Finder (if settings are to not add to Camera Roll) or Image Capture (otherwise), so at least for that the existing tools seem adequate.

As I understand it, it is more useful to circumvent limitations in which normally we can copy TO iPhone but not FROM.

I don't know. I have "Backup all the data on your iPhone to this Mac" selected, and yet there are no automatic backups.

You are most likely correct, I've been using it for quite a while and have not explored the Finder option(s).

MtD