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willie45

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 27, 2007
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Hi

I have a work iPhone X and a personal iPhone 6s. Obviously the camera features on the X are superior and I'd like to use it as my main phone for photography. However, I'd like to get these photos onto my own iCloud account and edit them etc. Can you please advise me on the best way to do this? I'm a bit confused because I don't know if I'd need to simply transfer the pictures via USB or Airdrop onto my Mac and then upload them to my own iCloud Photos? Is this the only way to do it? Are there disadvantages to this approach?

As you can see, I'm pretty new to iPhone photography and this has only recently been sparked off by the excellent capabilities of the X.

I'm assuming I can use newer features like Portrait Lighting blurred backgrounds etc on Photos on my own Mac if I transfer the X pics to it?

Thank you for your help
 

mofunk

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Aug 26, 2009
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If its a work phone, I would simply upload them to your Mac via Airdrop. idk if you have permission to connect the iPhone to a personal computer. If you do, then you can set up a User Account on your MacBook with the Apple ID. I do this with my parents iPhones. There's is connected to my MacBook so that I can transfer and backup things for them.
 
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