iPhone isn't transferring photos taken with built-in filters

why would i need to setup my email for transfering filter applied photos. What if i take plenty of them this is hastle

If there's no other solution i would rather go for another photo editing app to save my time

I have this problem and hope Apple fixes this issue soon. We should not have to rely on emailing pics taken to ourselves adding lots of extra steps. Interestingly the Photostream on my iPad captures the pictures taken on my iPhone with the filter. Hence, this is most likely an iPhoto Mac issue.

I also find it super annoying, since I use a built-in filter for practically every photo I take as soon as I discovered them in iOS 7!

If you want the filters to remain once you upload to your computer via iPhoto/Aperture, there is actually a workaround, which I found on another post, and it works!

You create a "Shared Album" on your phone (I named mine Filtered Photos), add photos to that Shared Album from your camera roll to which you have applied a filter, and then you pull that Photostream up in iPhoto via iCloud. (In iPhoto, in left navigation pane, under Shared, select iCloud.)

Another workaround for seeing the filtered photo in third party apps on your device: after sharing to a Stream, save it from the Stream to your Camera Roll. The filtered photo is then available to other apps such as Diptic and Diptic PDQ (my new fave).

Voila! 😉

Hmmm, just had my comment censored:

'Apple removed your post titled, "Re: iPhone isn't transferring photos taken with built-in filters" because it contained non-constructive rants or complaints.'

What I was trying to say is that emailing pictures from an iPhone is a clumsy workaround (or a "kludge" as we say here) to bridge a lacuna in the iOS / OS interaction - it is not an elegant solution.

It's certainly not the Apple way, as we have come to expect it.

I also described this situation with iOS 7 as a "dog's dinner" - meaning an ill-conceived mess, which is how I am experiencing it. However, my intention was not to "rant non-constructively" but to illustrate my frustration with the status quo and lack of an elegant, Apple-sanctioned, non-third party solution (so far as I am aware).

Put simply, I cannot access photostreams on iCloud from my Mac, I do not have iLife 11 in order to benefit from akajules' brilliant tip and I find emailing pictures an absurd workaround (grateful as I am for Dirty Vegas' for this small grain of hope). My Mac is barely three years old and all software is up to date (although I have not moved from Snow Leopard for operational reasons).

So I must query again, is there *really* no method provided by Apple to get photos straight off my iPhone and onto my Mac with filters intact (using iOS 7 and OSX 10.6.8 / iLife 9)?

Such a glaring omission would seem to be bordering on incompetence, and I like to think more highly of Apple than that - even if it is just a case of waiting for this mistake to be fixed in the next update of iOS 7.

Any ideas, anyone?

luisbedin wrote:

Try to import with the latest version of iOS and iPhoto, the filter will not be shown at the time of import, but will be applied at the photo after that.

No. Not in iPhoto 9...

And to upgrade to iPhoto 11 (shudder, I've still not got over the imposed horror of iTunes 11), I'd need to be running Mavericks now. I'm not and I won't be.

But I did find a solution that allows me to import everything via iPhoto 9, with filters and all...

I simply ditched the default camera App for iOS 7 and spent £1.49 on a far superior camera app from the App Store (Pro Camera, I think it's called) that allows far more control and saves edited pictures as separate files.

Bingo. 🙂

An easy way to keep the filter is to simply screen shot the photo with the filter, tilt the phone the orientation of the photo, upright for portrait and sideways for landscape, then screen shot pressing the power and home button together, this will keep the filter, and allows you to keep the filtered and unfiltered photo in iPhoto :)

Don't blame you for having a rant. The UI guys at Apple should know better than to create in-phone filters (also applies to video slo-mo) which then don't transfer to your Mac. Utterly contrary to user expectations and goes against everything Apple stands for. Sadly that's the way stuff is - think of recent iWork disaster upgrades - would be better if Apple were more up-front about these things and made people aware.

Anyway - akajules solution is a good one. Shouldn't need these workarounds but it does deal with all photos at once unlike the email method

I had this problem when I tried to import filtered Photostream pics into iPhoto. However, when I connected my phone to my laptop using a USB cable, I was able to see and import my filtered iPhone pics into iPhoto. I hope this helps you!

This is a rather inelegant solution to a problem that has surfaced only with the arrival of iOS8. When taking photos with iPhone 5s and the filter on while shooting, the filtered photo would show up in photostream and thus import into Aperture / iPhoto.
Since iOS8 it does not do that any more.

If you take 40 photos with a filter and would like to go through them in iPhoto instead of selecting the best shots on the phone with its smaller screen, this means that you have to export 40 photos. That's a bad workaround for many.

hi everyone...

I have the same issue you all facing...But I have a solution for this.

Install 3'rd party cloud apps in your iPhone and also in your pc like dropbox.com and disable the camera uploads option because that automatic camera upload also do the same thing(removes the filters)...and then create one new folder in your dropbox on your phone and add the files/photos you taken.it is working fine for me....

sorry I am not good in English...:-(

Enjoy.....:-) :-)

MCW wrote:

This is a rather inelegant solution to a problem that has surfaced only with the arrival of iOS8. When taking photos with iPhone 5s and the filter on while shooting, the filtered photo would show up in photostream and thus import into Aperture / iPhoto.
Since iOS8 it does not do that any more.

If you take 40 photos with a filter and would like to go through them in iPhoto instead of selecting the best shots on the phone with its smaller screen, this means that you have to export 40 photos. That's a bad workaround for many.

I agree, this used to work fine without workarounds.

This is happening again. I noticed and reported it when I first bought my iPhone 6 (it was fine under 4S), running iOS8. This problem seems to have repeated itself under iOS8.1.2 and iPhoto 9.6.

Photos still on my iPhone show the application of photo filters, but those imported to iPhoto do not, and even when they are simply previewed before importing, they still don't show the filters.

Please help! This makes completely useless the photo filters on the iPhone.

iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.2

MacBook Air (summer 2014) running:

iPhoto 9.6

OSX Yosemite 10.10.1

My wife and I have both had this problem since iOS8. We've got iPhone 5s, MacBook Pro Retinas, and all software is up-to-date. The filters transferred fine with iOS7. After spending 3 hours on the phone with Apple tech support, they revealed that there is no fix for this at this time. We were encouraged to send Apple feedback (I thought that's what we were doing, in addition to trying to find a fix).

Did I mention that every time I've brought it up with Apple I've been told, "hmm, I've never heard of this issue before." Right.

In short, there are two reliable albeit cumbersome workarounds:

1) Email them to yourself using the Mail app (which we all agree is BS).

2) AirDrop them to yourself (from your iOS to OS X device, unless you experience THAT OTHER glitch where devices don't see each other, which incidentally I do, but that's another thread).

The problem with AirDropping them is that, when it works, it renames the file to "FullSizeRender[1]", "FullSizeRender[2]", etc., meaning you'll need to manually rename your files later as "IMG_xxxx", etc., to get them back in sequence with the rest of your photo stream. So, more time wasted.

I think it's pretty clear that Apple is aware of this issue but doesn't see it as a priority. Like the Apple tech support told us, send feedback to Apple, and hopefully they'll acknowledge it and fix it in an update.

It's really rotten because we feel cheated and disrespected, so we intend to shop around next time we're in the market for a new phone.

I found a perfect solution for this. The app PhotoSync (http://photosync-app.com/photosync/en/features.html) that let you select if you want ios filters applied even though it perfectly keeps exif metadata and offers a bunch of other cool things (exporting back and forth between various services and protocols) that even made me improve my workflow (i now use it with Lightroom´s auto import feature so as soon as i get home, PhotoSync automatically exports all my new iphone photos to specific folder on NAS where it will be later autoimported by LR).

No need for a workaround by sending tons of images by email anymore! 🙂

thank you lord for Zazo!! I have been screaming and crying trying to import photos into my mac, downloaded all kinds of third parties app which eventually did not work out...and then I see your post. I'm like? Is it possible?? Why would the preview be different from the actual imported photo?? But you were right!! THAAAAAAAANK YOU!! I had almost given up! It's def not user friendly tho, I presume many of us stop at the preview and do not click import believing it to be a waste of time....god bless you! I don't even remember anymore what photos I wanted to import today but thank you!!!