Photos: Difference between importing by AirDrop and by cable - how to import by AirDrop without any changes?

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Photos: Difference between importing by AirDrop and by cable - how to import by AirDrop without any changes?

I would like to import photos from my iPhone 13 to MacBook Pro. The easiest way is by AirDrop but it seems to be different in comparison with cable import. What are the differences in detail? While using AirDrop the photos seem to be smaller from storage consumption. If I had photos imported by AirDrop and import later by cable the photos app doesn't recognise that theses photos were imported in former times (since they are different in meta data?). How can I import photos by AirDrop in original quality? Thx.

Ventura 13.4 (22F66)

Photos Version 8.0 (551.0.140)

MacBook Pro 13″

Posted on Jun 20, 2023 8:32 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 21, 2023 10:11 AM in response to Toru2

This does not answer your exact question but here goes:

The transfer via a USB cable is supposed to transfer the unmodified original, not the edited version. The caption is not embedded in the original, so it is not transferred.

The only easy way to transfer the edits from an iPhone or iPad losslessly, including the albums, caption, locations, adjusted dates is iCloud Photos Library. If you do not want to upload all photos from your Mac to iCloud, only download the photos from your iOS device, create a new, empty Photos library to use with iCloud. Once the photos have been downloaded from iCloud to this library, you can disable iCloud Photos again and import from this library to your main photos library.

Also AirDrop can be used to transfer the modified version with added metadata.

Captions entered in iPhone do not import … - Apple Community

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Old Toad

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Jun 21, 2023 9:56 AM in response to Toru2

There should be no difference in the two methods. I just ran a test and this is what I got:

Do you have iCloud Drive enabled with Optimize Mac Storage?

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