Q: Why are iOS Photos edits lost when importing to iPhoto?
My iMac is running Yosemite (Version 10.10) and iPhoto 9.6. My iPhone is running iOS 8.1.
On a recent trip I took dozens of pictures with my iPhone and edited most of them using Photos, either via the built-in editing features or using Camera+ via the Share Sheet capability. A few photos were also edited using Snapseed, which has no Share Sheet integration and therefore saves a separate file of the edited photo back to Camera Roll.
When I got home and connected my iPhone to my iMac, I noticed that iPhoto displayed the original image files for import. There was no option to preserve the edits (unless the image was saved as a separate file beforehand, such as the Snapseed-edited images). I selected the option to delete the images from my iPhone after import into iPhoto, so I can't confirm if the images on the phone would still have been viewable with edits post import (but I would assume so).
Why are iOS Photos edits lost when importing to iPhoto? What can be done to preserve those edits? Perhaps they aren't lost and iPhoto just displays the original image by default. If that's the case, is there an option to display the edited version?
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Posted on Nov 15, 2014 10:24 PM
That is unfortunately, how it is supposed to work, see Apple's support document:
iPhoto and Aperture don't have edits to photos you import from iOS 8 devices - Apple Support
When you download from your devices, you will only transfer the photos in the camera roll, and that will be the unedited versions without adjustments. The only way suggested by apple to transfer the edited version to your mac is to mail the photos. A shared photo stream will also show the edited versions, but at a reduced quality.
Posted on Nov 16, 2014 1:56 AM