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I have some images and movies that I would like to move or at least copy from Photos to Files.
When I Air Drop an image or movie to the phone or pad it automatically goes into Photos. This isn’t content I want in my Photos library. Is there any way to move or copy it into Files?
Thanks very much.
You can tap on the "Select" option in the Photos app, select the photos or videos you want to move, and then on the share icon, where you can tap on the Save to Files option.
There is no way that I know of to get the photos straight into the Files App when they are Air dropped.
You can tap on the "Select" option in the Photos app, select the photos or videos you want to move, and then on the share icon, where you can tap on the Save to Files option.
There is no way that I know of to get the photos straight into the Files App when they are Air dropped.
There is a better way to solve your problem:
On your sending device, copy or move your images or videos into a folder in the Files app. Then select and Share/AirDrop the entire folder to your other device; that receiving device will present an AirDrop dialog box asking you where to save the received folder, then you can save it somewhere in your Files app.
Same solution can be used to AirDrop pdf files. If you don't enclose the pdf files into a folder before AirDropping, the receiving device might put the pdf files into the Books app. (Though OS 16.6 might have provided other options too.)
There are also other third-party apps in the Share menu on my iPhone next to Files - View Exif or Metapho, mostly apps with photo editing extensions.
There it is. Thank you. I kept looking in the horizontal swipe area as it’s an external app.
Sometimes the user interface is surprising, isn't it?
Not very consistent.
I guess we get used to after a while.
Wonder is they don’t consider Files an app.
Interesting. Thanks léonie.
Thanks. That may make going out of Photos on the Mac more complicated as it doesn’t do drag and drop well, recompressing and altering files, which means going through an export process.
I found my file’s & need to know how to get my reply to send to other people? My messages are going into my Archive & saying ‘Draft’ & won’t send if I have an Attachment!
I'm not clear what you're doing where. Which applications are you talking about, in which OS?
Can you move or copy an image from Photos to Files?
