Transfer albums from iPhone to Mac: IMPOSSIBLE

[mxrider88]

For me as I don't want my photos to be synced in cloud, I AirDrop my photos from iPhone to Mac. I would prefer organising them in Finder rather than Photos (as I don't like Photos for Mac). Yes, just AirDrop photos by album and each time I transfer within 300 photos to ensure it works well.

Yes that would be the only way but it is slow and very unreliable, even with 50 photos I have timeout issues or the transfer doesn’t start at all.. if you have a few videos forget it..

I don’t know, there are some workaround but I just find it crazy that there is not a way to plug and import..

Thanks for your answer man

 

[dmillar74]

Preview. That is how I do mine. Plug in, launch preview, then I think you go to the menu item file and import from iPhone.

 

[mxrider88]

Preview. That is how I do mine. Plug in, launch preview, then I think you go to the menu item file and import from iPhone.

Yep but not the albums

 

[tyc0746]

The 'albums' shown in the Finder sync window just seem to be the 'Media Type' folders, not actual albumns.

As I said earlier, I use iMazing for my books (as the Apple app for that has been useless since it came out) and in the Photos section it shows the albums both created by the user (I created one called 'Testing') and the albums created by Apps.

It's not cheap, but there's a free trial available to see if it suits.

Let me know if it works for you...I might even have a spare license you can have for free that I got as part of a bundle last year that I never used, as I'd already paid full price for it previously.

 

[snearch]

I more or less share the critical attitude of the OP against Apple.

It seems, that Apple does not only want to sell Hardware to their customers, but also wants to urge them to become paying subscribers of their Cloud services (iCloud), so that they effectively pay money to Apple every single day (like rent).

They make it deliberately and unnecessary cumbersome, to process storage space management on iPhones efficiently without iCloud.

I consider this as a greedy an unfriendly attitude towards their customers and despise this stance.

Remedy: all hope is not lost

I think the "PhotoSync" App by touchbyte GmbH can do the operations, which Apple should have implemented.

PhotoSync can replicate the folder structure of an iPhone e.g. on your Mac-Notebook (just install the "PhotoSync-Companion"-App on your Notebook) or on your webserver (e.g. with Apache/webdav).

I did this myself and consider PhotoSync to be an outstandingly sophisticated app.

The transfers I experienced happened astonishingly fast.

HTH