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Q: What happens to the edits performed on an iOS device when importing to Photos on a Mac ? Looks like they are kind of lost...

Photos on iOS allows for efficient and powerful edits of my shots right from the iPhone, yet it looks that the modifications are not reflected in photostream.

 

Likewise, it seems that when I import photos into Photos.app on OS X the phone edits are not taken into account.

 

This does not look normal (rather a waste of time) and I would like to know if anybody has found a workaround

 

@pdewost

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 2,93 Ghz Core i7 / 24 GB RAM

Posted on May 29, 2016 1:03 AM

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Q: What happens to the edits performed on an iOS device when importing to Photos on a Mac ? Looks like they are kind of lost...

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  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen May 29, 2016 3:51 AM in response to woste
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    May 29, 2016 3:51 AM in response to woste

    How are you moving them to your OSX device?

     

    There are "sidecar" files for each edited JPEG with an .aae extension. the edits are in there. If present in the same folder as the JPEG, OSX Photos will "respect" the edits and actually allow to revert to original.

     

    Screen Shot 2016-05-25 at 12.22.01 AM2.jpg

     

    Those .aae files are not sent in a Photo Stream as there is no app to interpret them. Photos with edits would be flattened before sending.

  • by léonie,Apple recommended

    léonie léonie May 29, 2016 4:21 AM in response to woste
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    May 29, 2016 4:21 AM in response to woste

    To transfer the edited version with my Photo Stream, save a duplicate of the edited photo to the camera roll.

    Then the edited version will be transferred by My Photo Stream.

     

    The easiest way to transfer edits in a lossless way between your devices is iCloud Photo Library. All edits will sync between your devices.

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen May 29, 2016 4:18 AM in response to léonie
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    May 29, 2016 4:18 AM in response to léonie

    ahhh... so the thumb is flattened, but if you import or make a copy, you get the original with sidecar file? Good to know. Thanks.

  • by woste,

    woste woste May 29, 2016 12:23 PM in response to LACAllen
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    Photos for Mac
    May 29, 2016 12:23 PM in response to LACAllen

    I am moving them by importing them into Photos for OS X once iPhone is connected to iMac...

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen May 29, 2016 3:38 PM in response to woste
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    May 29, 2016 3:38 PM in response to woste

    Then those edits should have been imported at that time. In Photos, if you "edit" one of your imported photos... do you not see your edits? Is there an option to "revert to original"?