If you are using Image Capture, are you able to turn on its “delete after import” function?
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That feature no longer works. Not sure if that is because of Big Sur or the application itself.
When I used Image Capture on an earlier version of macOS - I forget which one - that feature did work, and life was great! Because if that feature works, then you in essence are doing a "move".
Another thing I have noticed about the Image Capture app is that it often drops files.
Yesterday I donwloaded files from my iPhone onto my MBP, and I noticed that photos I had taken that morning weren't in the final downloaded file set.
So I created a another folder, ran Image Capture a second time, and then all of my files appear to have been downloaded. (In retrospect, I wonder how many "once in a lifetime" photos/videos I thought were successfully downloaded off my iPhone that disappeared forever because of the unreliability of this application?)
Apparently the under 40 crowd snaps photos/videos and instantly uploads them to "the Cloud" or onto Tik-Tok...
Again, it boggles my mind that there is a way to take photos/shoot video on your iPhone, but there is no practical way to transfer those files to your Mac computer or an external hard-drive.
Almost makes me want to pitch my iPhoen and buy a DSLR/mirrorless camera...
