Q: photos freezes but says is importing new photos from my iphone6

Sounds like you are using a computer

LN

I keep running into this problem as well, and has now expanded to happen even if I don't move off the "Albums" tab. Reported previously Import from iPhone Slow/Hangs when clicking the Import button when import is in progress

Alan

Same exact problem. Haven't been able to import from my iPhone6 to my Mac for weeks. Says it's importing but it just hangs. Try to stop import nothing happens. Try to quit Photos and it just says it's "closing library" but never quits. I have to force quit every time. This app is a POS

Same exact problem here too.

Macbook Pro, Iphone 6+

Haven't been able to import from my iPhone6+ to my Mac since updating to Photos. Says it's importing but it just hangs. Try to stop import nothing happens. Try to quit Photos and it just says it's "closing library" but never quits. I have to force quit every time. Frustrating!

Macbook Pro, iPhone 6, Photos

Any solution yet? Having the same problem for weeks now. Very frustrating.  Even went out and replaced my HDD with a 1Tb SSD, in hopes its a performance and/or space issue, but to no avail.

Note the Op restarted their mac and the problem went away

If you want help please start a new thread with the exact specific details of your software, error messages and your problem including what you have tried to resolve it

LN

Note your statement is incorrect. The OP had to force quit the app then restart the app then the photos imported. I have to do the same thing often but not always.

PLease explain how "sounds like you are using a computer" is a useful reply to anyone.

I just had this problem with trying to upload my photos onto my mac as well.  I had 2000+ photos and it would get 18 uploaded and then freeze.  When I tried to force quit it would say "closing library" but never actually close it.  I retried this numerous times after restarting both my computer and phone, but it happened over and over. 

I don't know if this was actually a solution, but I deleted the Instagram folder in my photos and then turned off iCloud photo library and then it worked perfectly.

Maybe try that and see if it works?

Good luck!

Is there an answer to this yet?

I am extremely tempted to just stop using Photos and go back to iPhotos (becasue I never had any issues importing to iPhotos), but I am afraid that there will be a loss of files; not to mention - given their track record - that Apple will soon stop supporitng iPhotos all together and then I would be right back where I started.

Apple (or anyone) PLEASE help with this issue!!!

I had the same issue, when I turned off iCloud and deleted the Instagram folder on my phone, it worked fine.  Not sure exactly what it was that fixed it, but maybe try turning off iCloud!

Hello All

Having the same exact problem and after researching a lot, came up with a simple, but conclusive solution!

Simply close all applications, open Disk Utility, select the drive where your photo library is and select "Repair Disk Permissions".

I have a 1TB HD with 200MB free space and it took about 5 minutes to run, fixing several permission errors - you can view the errors being found and fixed while running the process

After that, importing photos from my iPhone runs smoothly and much faster

Hope this helps you all as well

Hello all,

I was experiencing the same issues, my photos app would freeze. The only thing I untoggled was the 'Delete items after import' Checkmark. After that, my 1000 photos/videos imported smoothly.

Thank you for this response.  With the added step of rebooting my computer after, this worked like a charm.  Thank you!

Has anyone found a solution to this problem - i have approx 1500 photos on my iphone 6 that I am trying to import into Photos for Mac. ver 1.0.1 (215.65.0) It keeps freezing.  I have tried to do it in smaller chunks but even then it freezes..  Right now trying to import 37 photos would should be a breeze and it is stuck once again.... please help.