Importing photos from iPhone/iPad to Mac

My stuff is all in French, so sorry if I don't give the proper translations of option names.

I try to save all the photos from my iPhone and iPad to my Mac for back up. I go in the Picture app and I go into import after plugging the device. I see the device in the left menu. I open it. It says that I have 82 pictures not imported yet. Fine. But I know that there are hundreds of photos in the device, I can see them when I look in the picture app of the iPad itself. I want a full backup. The other pics have not been imported into this Mac. They might have been copied in my old PC a little while ago, but I did lost many things when it died so I would like to be sure having a full backup, and later I'll be able to delete any double. How can I do that ? Now that I imported the 82 photos, it just says that the iPad contains 82 already imported photos and no mention of the rest that is on it.


And if you have an advice on the format I should choose when I export those files to keep them in an external backup, I would be very grateful. I'm not a professional photographer. It's mostly family pictures, memories and a bit of stuff I use for work and social medias. If I ever print, it's to make a souvenir photo book, not a wall-large professional print lol. I guess that JPEG would be sufficient because the lack of quality is probable under what I can even notice and the space saving would be worth it, but I'm afraid of making an error.


Thank you for any help provided. I'm still new to Mac and I don't get all of it yet.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 28, 2024 1:31 PM

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Sep 7, 2024 6:59 AM in response to Rachel_nutrition

My first guess is that you have two separate sets of pictures-- the ones loaded by cable from a computer, and the ones taken by the phone. Pictures imported by cable from a computer sort of live in a different world than pictures that import directly. On an iPhone, cable imports can be viewed by Photos but they aren't really owned by Photos. You may end up using two different import methods.


I'm hardly the expert here, because I use iCloud to transfer pictures, and I haven't really used a cable for that in ages. But let me make a suggestion: Use the app Image Capture that comes in your Applications folder. Transfer pictures with that app to a folder on your Mac. You may get a complete set that way, I'm not sure, or you may get the pictures that Photos didn't see. But it's easy, and you'll get something.


By the way, the first link that HiyaThereLovely suggests has no solution yet, so I wouldn't bother looking there.


Let us know what happens!

Sep 9, 2024 6:01 AM in response to Richard.Taylor

Thank you for your input. I'll have a look on what is the difference between the pics that were transferred and the ones that don't show. I never transfer images from a computer, so that is not the point, but I do have pictures, print screens, pictures saved from internet and pictures sent by people that I saved in my iPad/iPhone, so that might also imply a difference.


I might be slow to give new about this, as I work a lot and can only work on this in my scarce spare time, but I'll come back for sure. Thanks again.

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