cant see my iphone in finder

Here it is, the middle of 2017 and we still cannot see our iphones in Finder. Really poor customer service response from Apple. I am now going to have to (yet again) boot up parallels and then windows in order to move my photos to my external hard drive. Windows was such a breeze to use when working with photos. Love the drop down menus in explorer for moving files and I could see my iphone and move things with a drag and drop. What a pain using an imac is for photos!! Sigh...

The apple recommended answer here seems completely absurd.

When I plug my iPhone into a windows machine, I can see the phone in the file explorer and drag/drop content to wherever I want it to go, but Finder, the equivalent of a file explorer HAS NO IDEA AN IPHONE IS CONNECTED.

You'd think an iPhone would be easier to use with a Mac, but for the purpose of moving files around, this could not be further from the truth.

The iPhone does not support disk mode, which is required to be used as an external drive.

To import photos/videos from the iPhone's Camera Roll, you can import from the Camera Roll with your computer as with any other digital camera. When there are photos/videos in the Camera Roll, your iPhone is also detected as a digital camera when connected to your Mac. iTunes does not handle the import of photos/videos from any digital camera including from the iPhone's Camera Roll. With a Mac, you can use iPhoto or the Image Capture application for the import.

You can transfer photos from iPhoto to your iPhone, which is selected under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes. You can transfer your entire iPhoto library to your iPhone, or select iPhoto Albums and/or Events only. Just as with your iTunes music - you can transfer your entire iTunes library, or select iTunes playlists, artists, and genres. The same applies with iPhoto and photos.

You will not be able to see your iphone in finder.

You use image capture or iphoto.

So it's over 3 years when this guy was wondering what would be the easiest way to transfer file video file from iphone. Issue stil persists.

Sure you can purchase iPhoto, iMovie or Aperture then import and export it.
Or you connect your iphone to Windows, open it as usb drive and drag-n-drop.

Well it's not really that simple. I need to drag my fat *** from this chair and wait for my windows laptop to boot up while I cook supper and put kids to sleep...

Thanks a lot Allan. This helped me.

Before (less than a year ago, I think), I was able to import pictures from my Iphone to my Imac with Picasa.

How comes that I can't do this anymore?

There are also other drawbacks with Picasa for this period.

Maybe I should try to get an older version of it.

Disapointed

Agree with rooste, this is still a feature lacking in 2016. Am amazed that Windows has a feature that the the mac does not.

I switched from Windows to mac and was used to being able to see the iphone as a drive.

I wish to be able to manage my photo/video files manually myself, not with iphoto or some other library tool.

Totally frustrating. Totally idiotic of Apple. They like to boast about all this connectivity between your devices, but there's no straightforward way to use your Macbook to move photos off your connected (literally, USB connected) iPhone to a connected external drive. Lots of hurdles. Lots of headaches. Wow!

Image capture should be this application. It lets you copy images to a new location, but not actually move images. Also, you can't delete images. It's just an application that's been hamstrung from being really effective or helpful.