How to get a video off an iphone onto a mac and paste it into an outlook email

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How to get a video off an iphone onto a mac and paste it into an outlook email

In the PC this is trivial

plug in iphone to usb via cable.
ok on phone.
Copy video or photo from file exporer and paste into the email you are writing.

Now I have switched to Mac (company requirement), I cant find a solution to get videos off the iphone and into the mac. It seems there is no option to simply "expore and copy" unfortunately.

The closest I have come to so far is this:

pug in iphone to usb cable. plug usb cable into a USB C to usb converter, and plug this into mac.
look for photo in finder. Not found.
Search internet. Suggestions say open "photos". Find photos in launch pad and run it.
Trust this computer.
Click on iphone. Nothing happens. Wait around 1 minute.
Photos and videos appear.
find the video I want to paste. Try to drag it from photos to outlook email. Doesnt work.
tick the video, and click on "import 1 selected". Nothing happens, no response. click on it again. Nothing. Again. Wait. Now 3 copies of the video appear under "photos".
Try to drag the video to the email I am writing. Doesnt work.
Try to find out where on the file system it has put the video, so I can drag it into outlook. There is no "reveal in finder". There is a "get info" but this does not show the path. There is also no "copy" option. There is a share menu, but outlook isnt on this, and, even if it was, I need to paste it into an existing long email I have already written.

This is where I am stuck. I cant find any way to get the video onto the file system so I can use it.

Are there any free 3rd party apps I can use to copy photos and videos off the iphone into a directory on the mac HD so I can use them in outlook and other apps, or just copy them to a USB stick (which doesnt seem to be possible at the moment).

If what I am looking for is not possible, then the only thing I can think of is to use a PC. Get the files off the iphone onto a USB stick using the PC (Which is trivial and intuitive), then copy the files from the USB stick onto a directory on the Mac. It seems crazy though.

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Posted on Jun 5, 2018 8:05 AM

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razmee209

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Jun 5, 2018 8:50 AM in response to sfromgi

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302#importmac

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sfromgi Author

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Jun 5, 2018 10:20 AM in response to sfromgi

I found a workaround for the missing "reveal in finder" option. Any suggests for a better solution welcomed.

import the photos into the photos app from the connected iphone (the only way to get all your photos and videos off the iphone).
From the photos app, drag all your photos into a folder in the finder.
To avoid having two copies of all your media, now delete them all from photos app (which hopefully deletes them for the hidden place where it puts them)

Now you can finally use your photos and videos any way you need with any app you like. My personal workflow is to move all my photos onto an external HD in sequential numbered directories, then copy them all to my 1TB free onedrive via the web browser, then import them from the external HD into lightroom Classic CC. At least I now have a way to do this on the Mac.

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razmee209

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Jun 5, 2018 9:40 AM in response to sfromgi

sfromgi wrote:

Unfortunately, this article does not help. It is actually the one I used. It stops at the point where photos are "imported" into the photos app. This seems to be a dead end - as its not possible to copy paste photos from photo into outlook, nor is it possible to find where the photos/videos are stored on disk so that you can copy them from there.

Basically, I just want a tool to get one or thousands of photos off the iphone onto the mac file system so I can use them. This is trivial on the PC, just select one or all photos on the iphone in finder, and drag them to the dir you want to store them in.

Does that include reading the link about not being able to import pics right underneath importing to Macs?

or just use airdrop Use AirDrop on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support or send the video directly from your phone, you do have Outlook email installed on your phone right?

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sfromgi Author

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Jun 5, 2018 9:52 AM in response to razmee209

I can import the photos into the photos app, I just cant get them from the photo app into my outlook (or skype for that matter, or even to copy them to a USB stick).

No, I don't have outlook installed on the phone. The phone is a 6SE, and the screen is too small for that, which is why I write emails on the Mac.

I did try to get airdrop working a year or so ago, but failed. I have asked around my mac/iphone friends, and surprisingly none of them has used airdrop. Most of them have had phones since the iphone 3, and macs since the mac 128. Looking at the airdrop user guides, it only works if you have the device you want to share as a contact. As I have no "apple" contacts on my iphone (I sync my 2000+ contacts on the iphone via hotmail so that they also are synced with outlook on my various devices), I could not get it to work.

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sfromgi Author

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Jun 5, 2018 9:43 AM in response to razmee209

Unfortunately, this article does not help. It is actually the one I used. It stops at the point where photos are "imported" into the photos app. This seems to be a dead end - as its not possible to copy paste photos from photo into outlook, nor is it possible to find where the photos/videos are stored on disk so that you can copy them from there.

Basically, I just want a tool to get one or thousands of photos off the iphone onto the mac file system so I can use them. This is trivial on the PC, just select one or all photos on the iphone in file explorer, and drag them to the dir you want to store them in. From there you can do anything with them, open them in photoshop, copy them to a USB stick, paste them into outlook, copy them into skype etc. I can't see an easy (or any way so far) to do any of these things on the mac. It has a "share" option for twitter, facebook, linked in etc, but nothing just to copy them so I can put them into skype or existing outlook message (Which are not on the list).

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