Savest way to transfer Photos from foreign iPhone to Mac

[phl92]

So my question is basically in the title. Since I just made a terrible experience with transferring Music from iPhone to my Mac (which deleted all my Music on my iPhone) I want to ask before doing something wrong, especially because I want to transfer from a friends iPhone pictures.
Just to know: My MacBook Air is brand new and almost empty. So I guess the Macbook would just "empty sync" an iPhone when it gets connected, like it did with my Music on my iPhone.

I don't want anything changed on his iPhone, I just want (most) of pictures to be stored on my Macbook. As a backup and also I will work with a lot of pictures.

 

[Gregg2]

Start an Amazon Photos (AP) account (free). Upload the photos to that, then view it on your Mac. You can download them so that they live on the Mac, or just leave them in AP.

Love the "Savest" in the title. You want to transfer (save) photos safely.

 

[phl92]

Start an Amazon Photos (AP) account (free). Upload the photos to that, then view it on your Mac. You can download them so that they live on the Mac, or just leave them in AP.

Are you serious? This is the only way I can transfer photos to a Mac in 2020? I dont want even more servers to have access to my files.. for sure not Amazon, thank you

 

[Ritsuka]

You can either use Image Capture, or send them with AirDrop.
There is no need to sync or whatever.

 

[phl92]

You can either use Image Capture, or send them with AirDrop.
There is no need to sync or whatever.

Thanks. Image Capture recommended me someone else. So if I connect the iPhone via Cable the Sync won't start automatically, right?!

 

[Ritsuka]

Right.

 

[Gregg2]

Are you serious? This is the only way I can transfer photos to a Mac in 2020? I dont want even more servers to have access to my files.. for sure not Amazon, thank you

No claim was made that this is the only method to use. I use Amazon Photos, so that's why it occurred to me to use it for what you want to do. If you don't trust Amazon, fine. Do something else.

 

[phl92]

No claim was made that this is the only method to use. I use Amazon Photos, so that's why it occurred to me to use it for what you want to do. If you don't trust Amazon, fine. Do something else.

Oh sorry, I was sounding a bit harsh maybe. Of course you wanted to recommend an alternative and that's good. Yeah, probably I stay with a non-cloud solution in this case. Thanks anyway

 

[phl92]

Connected the iPhone with the Mac via Cable.
Opened the Image Capture. Most images won't load and show up. So this App is not helpful at all. (we waited around 25min, since 200GB of Photos might take a while to load - still nothing)
Ok then we did like Apple advices on their help website.
Opened the Photos App on Mac.
All Photos immediately show up in the Library (it is hard to understand if it is the Library of the phone or the Mac)
Then we went on the iPhone. No photos showed up. We clicked on "Open Photo on Device". Photos show up and we can select which to import. The strange thing was, that it showed 16000 photos already imported?! Even stranger is that when we decide where to Import them, we can only choose between folders which exist on the iPhone. I created a new Album to test it, but then it imported the photos on the iPhone in this new folder (I mean WTF?).

In Finder I can see that he is filling up my storage but I cannot see in which folders.
WTF why is it so damn complicated to transfer and do with YOUR files what you want, even with Apple devices. Now I have a Mac filled up with several GB of photos which I cannot find where they are stored.