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

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!!!

Zazo replied to you, trust me, in iphoto preview you do not see the filter, just click import and the photo will change into the filter you had previously put.

There's an easier way, that includes the new Photos app for Mac:

1. Make any edits you want on your pics to your phone
2. Open Photos on both your phone and your mac, and wait until all your edits have been synced to your computer. (Provided you have not migrated your Aperture/iPhoto library to your Photos for Mac app, and you have activated the iCloud Photo Library on both your phone and the Photos for Mac app).
3. Select the photos you want to transfer from the Photos for Mac, then right click -> share -> Add to Aperture. The edited pics will be imported into a new project in Aperture, with all edits and metadata preserved. (Once in Aperture, you won’t be able to revert to the original as it was taken, you would have to revert on Photos for Mac)
4. You can now delete from your iPhone & Photos from Mac (if you want).

Awesome 😉 thanks a lot mate! As it obviously still was not fixed this is the easiest workaround..

The Only way i found is use xender.. open xender app in iphone and go to web.xender.com in pc... scan the qr code and import files.. in dat photo filter will be included.. if u connect both pc and iphone to same wifi modem u can reduce the data charges as the connection wpuld be direct connection without using data,

I find this outrageous that this was a known bug in 2013 and no fix was created, nor was the public informed of this obvious problem.

Not a big deal? What if you are a professional photog like myself who shot thousands of professional images with carefully selected filters.

Like a fool, well not really, like a normal person I uploaded them to my iphoto library (apple prodcut after all) and THEN DELETED THEM FROM MY CAMERA.

Now, I'm like, hey, where are my fliters? Not a darn way to save them so save your complicated after fixes, the data is deleted from the phone.

For example--I shot half in B and W half in color--now ALL are in color. Now way to know which were framed for color, which black and white.

Hence an intensly expensive professional project ruin.

Next time you see "Shot on a iphone6" in an ad, buyer beware.

Since 2013? Really anyone who deletes this post is not paying attention to their customers at all. And ps, I've owned literally thousands of apple products since 1985.

What is going on?

What to expect when you import edited photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to your Mac or PC - Apple Support

So I was somehow informed by this obscure tech post?

Why add a feature that doesn't really do what it pretends? And also pitch the product as a professsional ready product?

The data involved I suppose isn't in the traditional metadata. Is this so unsurmountable a tech problem for Apple? Or just low on the priority list?

Once I deleted the data from my phone I discovered this problem. It is too late now!

Why is this an adequate answer? To email every photo to yourself? Or find obscure third market programs?

Pro photogs deal in thousands of images. This shoot is lost forever.

I'm certainly sending my Nikon in for service and giving up on this product as a viable work instrument.

AyeCappy wrote:

The data involved I suppose isn't in the traditional metadata.

The edits are saved in a standard metadata format that allows "undo" capabilities, which "traditional" formats did not. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform

Facinating!

Not useful, but facinating.

I mean no disrespect, but do you get "points" for posting these responces?

I am an actual customer with an actual issue. Your breathe of knowledge, while impressive, is most unhelpful in that it enables the company to feel it has responded--but only in a technical sense, not a human sense.

This problem should never have been allowed to fester. No one should "discover" it after the fact.

The feature either works, and is compatable with other apple products and software, or it isn't.

Can I suggest that perhaps the "iphone" division has gone rogue and is in no way cedeing some compatability issues with the rest of the line?

Isn't that fair? I mean don't get me started on the iphone version of itumes because it will get this post misfiled.

--remains mystified.

AyeCappy wrote:

I mean no disrespect, but do you get "points" for posting these responces?

Points can only be awarded by the original poster in a thread for replies that are considered to be "Helpful" or that solved the issue. So I'm wasting my time answering you (in more ways than one).

I am an actual customer with an actual issue. Your breathe of knowledge, while impressive, is most unhelpful in that it enables the company to feel it has responded--but only in a technical sense, not a human sense.

The "company" is not responding. This is a user-to-user technical support forum, and I am just another user. Apple does not read or respond to posts in Apple Support Communities.

Apple chose to implement the feature in the way that you see it; I have no idea why they did or why they did it that way. Personally, as a former pro photographer, I never use any editing features of any camera that I use. I get much better control of results editing images on my computer (when I started it was in the darkroom) with real, professional tools. Thus, the use of XMP "sidecar" editing files doesn't bother me.

If you want the edited files on your computer the easiest way to get them there is to enable iCloud Photos. If you have a Mac they will be intact in the Photos app in OS X, for Windows you can find them by logging in to https://icloud.com. And they will transfer automatically seconds after they are taken.

but that will reduce the resolution buddy.. can't do it for thousands of photos.. And can't upload less resolution photos everywhere. We need a better solution than this!

I'm also facing the same issue since an year now. Apple should do something to get photos straight from my iPhone to my PC with filters intact

Apple HAS done something. What to expect when you import edited photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to your Mac or PC - Apple Support

Use iCloud photo library, as described in the link.