How do I import photos WITH CAPTIONS from iPhone to Macbook?

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.

AirDrop can be used to transfer the modified version with added metadata. But notice that AirDrop has also an "All Photos Data" option which always sends the original without any of those metadata edits (that option prompts to "Save to Downloads" or "Open in Photos" and they differ at least in that copying straight to Photos preserves the edited location while importing from a folder does not).

Captions entered in iPhone do not import … - Apple Community

> I hope apple addresses it sooner rather than later

These user interface and workflow issues are tricky because someone is always complaining whatever you do.

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