How do you "eject" a camera or such device from the photos app after import?

I don't feel comfortable with the flagged answer of this discussion.

The technical problem is that there is always input output between a Mac and a camera or an iPhone

and you don't know when these operation occur.

Hence an unplug can always happen during one of these operations.

The information problem associated with the fundamental technical problem is that there is not any clear technical,

official Apple documentation explaining how to eject a camera or an iPhone from Photos.

There is not any clear official documentation explaining how unplug could never happen when input output operations are occuring.

My personnal analysis is that there is just a bet from Apple here.

The probability that these operations might occur at the same time is small enough for people to rarely get corrupted storage on their camera,

their iPhone or their Photos library.

Furthermore if a few people would get a corrupted storage, the number of them who will suspect a collision between input output hidden

operations and an unplug of their camera or iPhone is much smaller. The ones who will report it is…

approximatly 0.

Thus far everything is perfect. There is no known, no official problem.

If the device does not show on the Desktop, you can simply disconnect it after the import finished. For devices that are not showing as a disk on the Desktop is no need to eject them after importing to Photos.

Thanks for your answer. It certainly seemed that since there was no longer a control-click option in Photos for a mounted device that a hot dismount or eject would be OK. Should there be any caveats to the user who selected a Finder option not to show Hard disks, External discs or CDs DVDs and iPods--or is this still uniformly true across all devices (old iPads, Firewire, etc.)?

This is only true for devices that are not accessible in the Finder. For iPhones, iPads, newer iPods. If a device shows up in Disk Utility as a mounted disk, you have to eject it properly.

But the newer iOS devices are not mounted as a disk, that a user can write to or eject.

For example, I just connected my iPhone 5s. It shows in Photos and iTunes in the sidebar, but Disk Utility does not show it as a mounted device, so there is no way to eject it.

Ok But then this is strictly a volunteer user to user forum - do you have a technical question that the experienced users here can assist with? Otherwise there is no reason to reopen a seven month old solved thread.

To tell Apple your comments see http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

LN

The information problem associated with the fundamental technical problem is that there is not any clear technical,

official Apple documentation explaining how to eject a camera or an iPhone from Photos.

There is no technical explanation, but Apple's Photos Help states clearly "When all photos have been imported, disconnect the camera or device from your computer."

https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht6c803201

You're welcome 🙂

Thanks for your answer. It certainly seemed that since there was no longer a control-click option in Photos for a mounted device that a hot dismount or eject would be OK. Should there be any caveats to the user who selected a Finder option not to show Hard disks, External discs or CDs DVDs and iPods--or is this still uniformly true across all devices (old iPads, Firewire, etc.)?

Are we sure it's "safe" to just unplug your device without formally ejecting it? I remember hard drives and stuff used to give error messages saying it could corrupt files if you didn't properly eject it. For the iPhone, it doesn't show up on the desktop or finder menu, so I guess you can just unplug it, but I'm worried if that could cause any damage or risk corrupting files.

For those of us who are imprinted with the need to eject before disconnecting... it's worth it to open Disk Utility, to make sure the device doesn't show up. You only have to check it once, then, if it's not there, you can be comfortable knowing it's fine to just disconnect when done.

Select the mounted device icon on your Desktop. CTRL- or RIGHT-click and select Eject from the context menu.

Great! Thanks for clarifying Léonie!