iPhone pictures not showing up in Photos

Not sure why, but this worked. Quit Dropbox, reconnected iPhone and pictures immediately showed up in Photos.

Thanks, uspercussion! Quitting Dropbox and then reconnecting iPhone worked!

Unfortunately that didn't work for me. When I first upgraded to El Capitan photos from my own iPhone showed up in Photos just fine. Today Photos cannot see any iPhone, even with DropBox quit. This is running OS X 10.11.2 and reconnecting the phones and restarting Photos in any order. Very frustrating.

However, rebooting the computer seems to have done the trick (even with DropBox running). We'll see how long that lasts.

So far no luck for me. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and an old iPhone 4S that has never given me any trouble. Pictures taken this last week show up in Photos when I plug into the computer, but anything from October thru December (last time I uploaded was October) does not. I tried resetting Privacy on my phone, restarting the computer, quitting Dropbox, unplugging and replugging, all various times in various orders, but nothing changed. Still can't do it. Unfortunately, AirDrop isn't on iPhone 4S, so I finally resorted to setting up Messages on my computer and texting the pictures to myself (which wouldn't be so tedious if I didn't have to search for, select, and load each picture individually). This is ridiculous, please figure out what is wrong Apple!

I had the same problem and fixed it this way

1. Go into Photo or turn it on

2. Click on Photo, click on the 'Preference' submenu

3. Brings up the 'General' window

4. Click on 'Show in Finder' button

5. Click on 'Use as system photo library'

Done .... 🙂

uspercussion wrote:

I had the same issue after upgrading to El Capitan. Pictures on my iPhone were not showing up in Photos or Image Capture, when I connected the phone to my iMac.

Janel, from AppleCare Tech Support, diagnosed it as a conflict with DropBox. Quitting DropBox solved the problem.

If Dropbox has been interfering by snatching the photos, check your Dropbox Preferences.

This setting is probably the culprit: Dropbox > Preferences > Photos > Enable Camera Uploads for ...

Make sure it is disabled. Then you should be able to keep Dropbox running.

You open the Dropbox preferences from the Dropbox menulette in the main menu bar: In the dropdown panel click the gears icon in the lower left corner.

what are your iCloud settings on the iPhone? -If you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on the iPhone you will not see all photos for USB import

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I have no idea what you just said.

Thank you for this work around. Yes, it is a bother to have to reset the location and privacy settings, but the pictures did then import from the iphone, so I'm Happy.

Thank you!

I believe that "iCPL" = "iCloud Photo Library."

Super helpful Thanks a bunch !!!!!!

That worked for me. Thanks t38ip.