I have a "From my Mac" photos folder from my old MacBook that is on my iPhone. I want to transfer the photos in this folder from my iPhone to my new MacBook, however, the photos in that folder do not show up on my MacBook when I attempt to transfer them. How can I transfer the photos without using iCloud?
iPhone 11 Pro
Photos you are seeing in "From My Mac" albums have probably been synced manually from the Mac to the iPhone, with iTunes or from the Finder. This manual syncing is one-way only. You cannot sync them back, as the synced photos are not saved to Photos, they are stored separately and just shown in Photos. To be able to import them back to your Mac you have to save them to Photos on the iPhone. They will be saved, when you try to add adjustments to them, or when you duplicate them. Otherwise you would have to mail them or Air Drop them (just a few photos at a time), or share them to shared albums to transfer them.
Photos you are seeing in "From My Mac" albums have probably been synced manually from the Mac to the iPhone, with iTunes or from the Finder. This manual syncing is one-way only. You cannot sync them back, as the synced photos are not saved to Photos, they are stored separately and just shown in Photos. To be able to import them back to your Mac you have to save them to Photos on the iPhone. They will be saved, when you try to add adjustments to them, or when you duplicate them. Otherwise you would have to mail them or Air Drop them (just a few photos at a time), or share them to shared albums to transfer them.
Duplicating and importing helped! Thank you so much :)
How to get "From my Mac" photos folder from iPhone to Macbook?
