Can't import photos from my iPhone to iPhoto.

i have the same problem. It used to work just fine. It seems that since I did the IOS 5.1 update and a iMac update I am having multiple problems. I am hoping someone will answer your question soon.

I'm having the exact same problem, since updating with IOS 5.1....Help!

I updated to iOS 5.1 and iPhoto launches the same importing photos from the iPhone. what version is the iPhoto you have?

I have iPhoto '08 7.1.5

I have iPhoto '09 and an iPhone 4. I was thinking that I might need to updrade to iPhoto '11 and do the photostream thing. i really don't want everything in iCloud as it might download / sync to my other devices.

: ) -- what version of iPhoto do you have and what iPhone do you have? Thanks!

With support from Apple I solved the problem of not being able to transfer photos from iphone to Mac computer. First I synced the phone with computer, then I emailed myself the photos from the iphone that I wanted to keep. Then using iTunes I "restored" the iphone as a new phone and then synced it on iTunes to get all the files back. Decided not to restore with "backup" because that might have been part of the problem. Works fine now

Same problem here since iOS 5.1. Either Picassa, iPhoto or Image Capture can see the pictures (even though they see the iPhone) on Mac OS X 10.6.8. Using Lion and image capture I could see and import the pics from an iPhone 4s.

Same problem. Updated iphone software on 4s to the iOS 5.1 version today. Now when I connect my iphone to my Macbook (Mac OS X 10.6.8) iphoto no longer opens automatically. When I do open iphoto, it doesn't recognise the photo's I originally took on my iphone. Hence I cannot import photo's from iphone to iphoto (unless I do it via email). How do I rectify? Do I need to upgrade to Lion OS?

My photos stopped importing from my 4G iphone to my MacBook Pro ever since I upgraded the iPhone from 5.0 to 5.1 despite up to date iTunes. After a call to support, I downloaded updates for my MacBook. Problem Solved!

Same problem here: upgraded from 4.3.x to iOS 5.1 (iPhone 3GS), now I can't import photos taken on iPhone. Neither with iPhoto nor with Lightroom - they both do see the connected iPhone tough. However they both claim that there are 0 photos found.

That's on OS X 10.6.8, iPhoto '11 (latest v 9.2.3), iTunes 10 (10.6.1) - or in other words: all updates installed. However I remember a quick test with the iPhone 4 from my girlfriend also found no photos on her device (also iOS 5.1) (so it can't be a 3GS issue only).

I do have "sync over WiFi" enabled, but all iCloud services are turned OFF.

I am pretty sure it must be the fault of iOS 5.1. Off course the phones were unlocked at the time of import. Also re-connecting the USB cable did not show any success. Also made sure that no sync was going on during the photo import attempt.

Same issue as others.

3GS, iOS 5.1, iPhoto 8.1.2 (iPhoto '09) I have it unchecked so it doens't open iPhoto everytime I have my iPhone plugged in. It shows up under Devices in iPhoto but it says no items even though I have 2,000+ on my camera roll.

I want to it my photos off my iPhone but as long as my Camera Roll is backed up to iCloud I should be fine if I restore my iPhone? Asking because I want to do the official lock through AT&T and don't want to look photo's in my Camera Roll.

I tried what privipol95suggested but to no avail. I wonder now if I should call customer support for the mac since I NEED to get these pictures off of my iphone. Any other suggestions? I'm at a loss.

After searching dozens of forums I found the answer...

TURN OFF BLUETOOTH!!!

This may take up to half hour for iPhoto to recognise the iPhone.

I always used to import my photos with Picasa and sometimes I would use windows explorer which i didn't really like because the order of the photos doesn't make any sense and the pictures are in random folders. So I liked using picasa because I could import all my photos and skip previously imported pictures and it would organize the pictures by the order they were taken. But last year sometime or maybe early tihs year using Picasa to import photos stopped working. I was using a 4s. Now I have a 5s and I was trying to import photos and I couldn't even get the photos out using windows explorer, and the when I tried to use Picasa to import pictures the device would show up but there wouldn't be any pictures or sometimes the iphone wouldn't even be recognized at all.

SOLUTION

This is the solution i found. If you connect your iphone 5s to the computer with the usb it will automatically connect with itunes. Then if you try to copy files off the phone with Picasa or Windows explorer it won't work because it'll give you some error like device is busy or unable to connect to device. So you have to go to itunes and in the upper right hand corner of itunes there is a button that shows iPhone and the eject button. Click on the eject iphone button and then Picasa and windows explorer will allow you to import your photos.

short solution:

EJECT IPHONE FROM ITUNES

then picasa and windows explorer will let you import photos.