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

The solution is to edit and share them with 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.

Apple, please give us a simply Render fx button. Thanks.

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

I now have this same issue for ios8 transferring the filers and crops from my ipad 2. it was fine not long ago.

Best way to copy camera roll with filters is to import photos what you want to copy in Filemaster app. and then connect iphone to pc. Now go to apps >> File sharing >> Select Filemaster >> Select photos OR Select Folder in which you have imported >> Click Save to.. >> Select Destination. And there you are with all photos same as you are seeing in your any iPhone.

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/filemaster-file-manager-privacy/id582219355?mt=8

Be happy with iPhone | Be proud

That does not work for us

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.

This will surely work man.

Best way to copy camera roll with filters is to import photos what you want to copy in Filemaster app. and then connect iphone to pc. Now go to apps >> File sharing >> Select Filemaster >> Select photos OR Select Folder in which you have imported >> Click Save to.. >> Select Destination. And there you are with all photos same as you are seeing in your any iPhone.

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/filemaster-file-manager-privacy/id582219355?mt=8

Be happy with iPhone | Be proud

This will surely work man.

Best way to copy camera roll with filters is to import photos what you want to copy in Filemaster app. and then connect iphone to pc. Now go to apps >> File sharing >> Select Filemaster >> Select photos OR Select Folder in which you have imported >> Click Save to.. >> Select Destination. And there you are with all photos same as you are seeing in your any iPhone.

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/filemaster-file-manager-privacy/id582219355?mt=8

Be happy with iPhone | Be proud

Give points to me if you will get your sollution.

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!