Photos won't import from iPhone to Mac after Sonoma update.

February 18th 2025 and no solutions provided for seemingly an issue for years now. I do not want to store photos in the cloud but rather on a hard drive via iPhoto. Any solutions greatly appreciated.

What I have done so far:

1. Update OS on iPhone and Mac
2. Used Image Capture to download to computer, which worked but iPhone will not take them from my computer into the iPhoto app.

Thanks for any help.

My iPhone 16 Pro Max 1.0 TB (iOS 18.3.2) WON'T UPLOAD ANY PHOTOS to the Photos app on my 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max 128 GB RAM (Mac OS Sequoia 15.4).

ANY SOLUTION TO THIS YET ?

This is actually INSANE. Lol.

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that still runs perfectly fine.. but I was having issues with the Photos app. Since that 2015 MBP runs Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6.. I assumed that the newer iOS on my iPhone wasn't meshing well with the much older Mac OS 10.14.6. I had not updated the 2015 MacBook Pro OS since I got the machine 10 years ago.

I went out and bought a $6,000 MacBook Pro M3 Max with 128 GB RAM thinking that might help with the Photos application issue ... NOPE. Not at all. Still having the exact same issues as on my 2015 MacBook Pro.

LMAO. I STILL CAN'T get my Photos to upload from my fancy *** iPhone 16 Pro Max to my 6 THOUSAND dollar MacBook Pro.

Got me over here Googling :

"How to upload photos from iPhone 16 Pro Max to 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max"

Looks like AirDrop and Image Capture are both alternative options to upload photos to my Mac.

Great suggestions, for sure.. but I'd rather use Photos app... the MAIN / FLAGSHIP Photos application in the Apple ecosystem.

I've got 2,000 + photos I want to upload all at once from a family vacation. They haven't been backed up in like 3 months because of this issue with uploading to Photos.

It's absolutely ridiculous that Apple has their clients SCRAMBLING AROUND ONLINE and on OFFICIAL APPLE FORUMS trying to find a "Fix" for this PHOTOS issue.

I'm so confused as to why this is so difficult to accomplish.

I've personally spent $15,000 + on Apple products over the past 15 years or so.

iPods

iPhones

MacBook Pros

HomePods

AirPods

Apple this, apple that... and this company can't even get their PHOTOS application to function properly ?

Literally mind-boggling.

PLEASE HIT ME UP if y'all find any answers to this apparently wide-spread issue amongst Apple customers.

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Dear Apple,

We would really & truly like to upload our personal photos and data from our iPhone devices to our Mac devices without so much UNNECESSARY STRESS & HASSLE.

Please update the Apple community at "discussions.apple.com" when you have any answers that might actually help your clientele.

Sincerely,

CONCERNED APPLE CUSTOMER

I've tried all of that and it is still not working. This wasn't an issue before updating to Sonoma. Please advise further.

Same issue here... did you ever manage to fix this issue?

Nope. Not yet.

Good sleuthing!

Thats fcking crazy, I have same problem, apple fix your apps please

Ignore - solved

Did you ever get an answer to this issue? I'm having the same problem. MacBook Pro sunning Sonoma and an iPhone SE (latest generation)

Me too exactly the same ! did someone find an answer or not yet ? ive tried almost everything

Same here. It is actually a JOKE.

How does Apple want me to import >10k of Pics from my iPhone?

Same here.