photos keeps dropping iphone

OK it is good old apple at work again - having been through MANY online apple people this is the result.

iPhone XS max cannot use the photo app or image capture app with mac running El Capitan, as they are now bundled into the Mojave software. I will have to move up to Sierra or maybe High Sierra or Mojave and see if that works. Mojave is the last one to use the 32 bit programs.

"At our Worldwide Developers Conference in 2018, Apple informed developers that macOS Mojave is the last version of macOS to run 32-bit apps."

However there is a fix if you load Mojave and your CS5 photoshop (a 64 bit version) does not work. Go to system prefs/accessibility/privacy and you will see a list of any program you can 'allow' to run this computer. Click on photoshop and pray.

Now all the old-timers will know that moving up on mac software can KILL your older adobe software and hey, that's just too bad as "you can subscribe to adobe programs now". I paid a LOT for my photoshop, et al and I do NOT want to pay a monthly fee. Very irritating.

Now on mojave - sierra would not work and now mojave will not load from the iPhone to the photos on the mac. Sees gray squares. Will keep working on it.

On the plus side I used the accessibility trick and photoshop works.