Import photos from iPhone to laptop

[will6910]

I’m trying to put my photos on top lap top but when I connect both together it goes to picture screen and says no photos found on this device. Iv done it lots before and never seen it before. Any ideas how to get to section I need to upload from one to other

 

[Lazy Sod]

Email them to yourself?

 

[will6910]

Got it sorted in end. Had turn phone and laptop off and on a few times before they wanted to listen to each other

 

[Mfrost]

usually if you plug it in it will not allow you to access the files until you have unlocked your phone manually after plugging in, (using your passcode if you have one) - glad you got it sorted but hope it helps in the future.

 

[will6910]

Thank you

 

[nick...]

Had a problem getting pics from Sony phone to iPad.asked on here and got google photos on both and pics are copied automatically
Nick...

 

[nelson.h]

Had a problem getting pics from Sony phone to iPad.asked on here and got google photos on both and pics are copied automatically
Nick...

That works, but for those that value absolute fidelity and want the original images, I believe Google Photos compresses images above a certain size: https://support.google.com/photos/thread/232779?hl=en. iCloud achieves the same without compression but you need to buy storage there.

 

[Cowabunga]

If high quality files are to be transferred then make an 'album' from selected photos on the iPhone then select all in the album and add album or make it into a shred album. I think you can then invite people to share your album from your contacts list, which sends them a clickable link, and it works across platforms.

Not 100% sure if I've got all that quite right but I'm sure you can work it out. Send an invitation to yourself that you will use on the non-Apple machine.

I seldom have luck with Airdrop between Apple devices for some reason. Being all Apple mine all sync together and if I chose to do so would be stored in iCloud, but mine actually sync to Google Photos which I use as a second backup. Accessible to all devices everywhere as long as there's mobile or wi-fi. Dropbox is another alternative and so is Evernote if you pay and only use up to [I think] 10GB per month [more is available at extra cost]

 

[ollie989898]

I would use icloud or google drive according to whose phone you are using. Take photos on your phone and it will upload them when it connects to your wifi network and so avoids data charges. You can then login on any device and retrieve the photos. Not sure if they are compressed or not.

I would not use Evernote for this on the grounds of cost, although it is an excellent program for other uses.

 

[Cowabunga]

I would use icloud or google drive according to whose phone you are using. Take photos on your phone and it will upload them when it connects to your wifi network and so avoids data charges. You can then login on any device and retrieve the photos. Not sure if they are compressed or not.

I would not use Evernote for this on the grounds of cost, although it is an excellent program for other uses.

If Evernote was already used on a subscription basis it would be fine and any post or series of posts could be shared via a link.

 

[ollie989898]

If Evernote was already used on a subscription basis it would be fine and any post or series of posts could be shared via a link.

I was under the impression that it didn't reproduce the images with the same original quality. It is also a bit long winded as a system for merely storing photos- it's not really for that in fairness. Good app though, but I recently changed over to OneNote, mostly because it works with Office natively.

 

[Cowabunga]

I was under the impression that it didn't reproduce the images with the same original quality. It is also a bit long winded as a system for merely storing photos- it's not really for that in fairness. Good app though, but I recently changed over to OneNote, mostly because it works with Office natively.

I don't disagree with you. I would share an album from the device if possible as a first option because that uploads the full image [not sure if Raw] and allows invited parties to download them for themselves.

I'm going to try and do this over the weekend before the crazy silage season, by creating a shared album on my iMac and inviting a couple of people to view and download if they want. Otherwise I'll copy the images into a dropbox folder and invite them to view that. There are plenty of options its just that we don't use them regularly and each time we do, it seems to be a new learning curve. Certainly in my case. My younger brain would certainly work it out much much faster.