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nfocus design

Jul 16, 2007, 07:33 PM

When you have your iPhone docked and open iPhoto, you should get a screen in iPhoto telling you it sees the iPhone and you just click import. Does iPhoto even see the iPhone? Here is a screenshot of what mine looks like.

Jeef690

Jul 17, 2007, 10:50 AM

It recognizes it but does not recognize my 112 photos.

alandail

Jul 18, 2007, 12:31 PM

my iphone used to show up in iPhoto, but doesn't anymore. I have photos from vacation I want to import and it doesn't want to work. iPhoto doesn't even launch when i connect my phone. This all worked before I left for vacation.

any ideas?

nfocus design

Jul 18, 2007, 10:28 PM

Attach a screenshot of what yours looks like.

dante@sisna.com

Jul 24, 2007, 01:58 AM

I can not import photos to iphoto. Can anyone help me? Other forum suggestions havent worked.

Hi,

Just read your post. I was having the same problem.

Here is the solution.

Make sure iPhoto is open.

With iPhone in the Dock, turn it on -- or perhaps better put, unlock it or bring iPhone out of sleep.

You may notice that iPhoto will refresh.

Next in iPhoto reclick on the "Apple iPhone" under the left iPhoto source menu -- this should enable the "import" feature.

I think the key is to have the iPhone awake and active.

Please post and let me know if this works.

Thanks,

Dante

yoyoxx

Jul 24, 2007, 09:19 PM

lilnyc

Jul 25, 2007, 06:39 PM

i'm having the same problem. when i connect my iphone to iphoto, i see my iphone icon, but in the "information" section in iphoto it says "no items" and the screen says "no items to import". i have over 200 photos in my iphone…

Are those 200 photos that you took with your iPhone? I believe that the option to import refers to photos that you specifically took with your iPhone, not photos that happen to be stored on the phone.

Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone.

The "Last 12 Months" button within iPhoto should show all photos stored on your phone using iPhoto. Try that if you haven't already.

Adam2000DC

Jul 29, 2007, 09:16 PM

iPhoto doesn't recognize my iPhone - I've tried powering it off and back on, unlocking etc... it simply does not see the phone as a device. All software is up to date and iTunes syncs properly. Could this be because I have syncing of photos turned off in iTunes? When I try to turn it on I'm warned that I may lose all photos currently on my iPhone... Any ideas?

elguercoterco

Jul 31, 2007, 02:36 PM

SUlibarri

Aug 1, 2007, 05:00 AM

On the main iPhone tab, I had to uncheck 'automatically sync' in iTunes, apply, then make sure the phone was on, iPhoto and iTunes launched, then drop into the cradle/dock.

This brought up the import page in iPhoto.

Until I did this, the phone was not recognized by iPhoto because iTunes was taking over and apparently iPhoto was left out of the party!

kinman

Aug 1, 2007, 11:24 PM

ntrigue

Aug 2, 2007, 01:59 AM

Open application: Image Capture

Turn iPhone OFF/ON and the program will discover it. Then use the lower drop-down list to find iPhone to iPhoto import.

gceo

Aug 3, 2007, 12:11 AM

any other suggestions?

What version iPhoto are you on? Does it show up in Image Capture?

romannumeral5

Aug 19, 2007, 05:15 PM

I had over 500 phones in iPhone and unchecking the auto sync on iTunes worked for me too!

On the main iPhone tab, I had to uncheck 'automatically sync' in iTunes, apply, then make sure the phone was on, iPhoto and iTunes launched, then drop into the cradle/dock.

This brought up the import page in iPhoto.

Until I did this, the phone was not recognized by iPhoto because iTunes was taking over and apparently iPhoto was left out of the party!

CurtisA

Aug 29, 2007, 10:41 AM

I was having the same problem, tried all the suggestions, but noe worked. Then I powered off my iphone by holding down the top button, powered it back on and PRESTO! all photos appeared in iphoto and imported successfully.

darkmeton

Nov 1, 2009, 05:33 AM

if iPhoto does not recognize iPhone, delete the save pictures you have on the iPhone from safari/mail.

Galarina

Nov 1, 2009, 02:13 PM

Anyone having troubles importing their photos to their Mac using a cable could also consider my PhotoToMac (http://itunes.com/apps/phototomac) iPhone app that transfers camera roll photos over WiFi.
All other people should consider it too :)

lazerbean

Nov 26, 2009, 02:46 PM

i have tried all of the above solutions and none have them have worked, same problem of course;

connect iphone to mac.
itunes starts up and synces fine
iphoto does nothing.

im going to take both macbook and iphone to a local apple store were the seem keen to help customers so hopefully i will have it sorted.

any other ideas before i resort to this???

JanSKay

Nov 26, 2009, 08:14 PM

I was just now trying to import and no matter what I tried my iPhone stopped showing up in iPhoto.It used to be when I plugged it in it'd take over and iPhoto would pop up and ready to go. :( What could have changed? All the settings are correct. I'm baffled.:confused:

ByronNewMedia

Dec 3, 2009, 01:27 AM

My 3Gs has been working just fine with iPhonto, now I can't see my iPhone in the left hand menu bar in iPhoto (see screenshot)http://skitch.com/byronnewmedia/nj66r/iphoto

Have tried restarting everything, no luck. Everything is syncing ok with itunes.

Any ideas?

jerrymarkham

Dec 10, 2009, 07:41 PM

I have the same problem where iPhone 3G is recognized by iTunes but iPhoto no longer can identify the phone.

I have not made any recent updates or changes. It just stopped working. I know there may be work arounds but I would rather it work the way it was designed to work.

Any help would be great.

paximadia

Dec 13, 2009, 12:22 PM

The tip from darkmeton did it for me: I deleted photos saved from mail and/or safari, dis- and reconnected the iPhone and it immediately came up in iPhoto. Turning off auto-sync did not work for me.

jerrymarkham

Dec 13, 2009, 06:55 PM

The tip from darkmeton did it for me: I deleted photos saved from mail and/or safari, dis- and reconnected the iPhone and it immediately came up in iPhoto. Turning off auto-sync did not work for me.

What is the procedure for deleting photos saved from Mail?
What is the procedure for deleting photos saved from Safari?

Max1242

Dec 13, 2009, 10:06 PM

I have the same issue where iphoto does not see the iphone. I recently purchased a new 3GS iphone and when I plugged it into the Mac it brought up the iphoto program like it used to do. After I syncd the new phone with the older back up, it did not launch iPhoto again and still will not see it. I will keep trying different things that are mentioned on this thread and if I find out what my issue was and if it gets resolved, I will also post it. I am glad to see that I am not the only one here that has the same issue.

darkmeton

Dec 14, 2009, 03:31 AM

What is the procedure for deleting photos saved from Mail?
What is the procedure for deleting photos saved from Safari?

Go to the Photos app (the default one, with the flower) and find the ones you have downloaded from safari/mail. Then edit->delete. It seems that if those photos have long names or some characters in the names are not recognized, the import has a problem. I myself had pictures with japanese letters. So whenever I tried to plug it in the import didn't work (for some reason).

darkmeton

Dec 14, 2009, 03:33 AM

After I syncd the new phone with the older back up, it did not launch iPhoto again and still will not see it.

Maybe the old backup had photos with problematic names. So when the backup was restored , so where those photos. Find the ones that were downloaded and delete them . If you need them , just email them to you first and then delete them. It should work.

Max1242

Dec 16, 2009, 09:12 PM

I deleted the photos that I had saved from the emails and the iPhone sank (syncd) just fine with iphoto. Will we be able to save images from emails again or are we stuck saving them from the email program? We will see.:apple:

nikwax

Dec 18, 2009, 05:21 PM

jamericatv

Dec 21, 2009, 04:10 PM

I did the same thing paximadia did and it was recognized in iPhoto and image capture. This is clearly a bug with the iPhone. I tried everything else mentioned and it did work till I deleted my photos that were saved from mail or safari. The hard part was just figuring that out but I didn't have too many saved from emails. I searched these forums and apparently Apple is aware of this issue and hopefully it will be fixed in future releases.

Iphone Photos to Mac - Apple Responds!!
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=838143&highlight=iphone+to+iphoto

gumcutter

Dec 28, 2009, 12:43 AM

i read through forums for 3 days to find an answer, i was able to get the photos/videos/audio recording of my kids to my mac with the use of 3rd party software called diskaid, but i was really annoyed that i had to resort to non-apple software. my iphone 3gs should sync with my macbook pro.

then i did this

Make sure iPhoto > Preferences > General tab has the Connecting camera opens: popup set to iPhoto.

and magically after fours months of frustration, my iphone is recognized in iphoto again. hope this helps some of you

ronw

Dec 31, 2009, 06:30 PM

Go to the Photos app (the default one, with the flower) and find the ones you have downloaded from safari/mail. Then edit->delete. It seems that if those photos have long names or some characters in the names are not recognized, the import has a problem. I myself had pictures with japanese letters. So whenever I tried to plug it in the import didn't work (for some reason).

i had the same issue (able to sync w/ iTunes but not able to detect as camera in imagecapture or iphoto) but w/ the able deletion of any photo that was from an email (i have 6 of them) that for what ever reason, it stopped recognizing it as a camera. once those photos were deleted, reconnected to machine and it automagically recognized it in both iphoto and image capture. this problem "was" consisted w/ both of my hackintos machines and my wifes mac book but is fine an all now.

nikwax

Jan 1, 2010, 04:41 PM

well, I'm still unable to get iPhoto to see my iPhone. It worked up until mid-October, then stopped. I've deleted all of the photos from the Photo Album that aren't in the Camera Roll. verified that all of the pictures in the Camera Roll were taken by the iPhone. Rebooted, restored, changed USB ports, nada, zip, bupkis.

Image Capture can see the iPhone but none of the contents.

Any other ideas?

I tried all of the above fixes with no success. Finally deleted the iPhoto app and all of the various bits of it (except for the library itself) and reinstalled. And that fixed it.

Cabxi

Jan 21, 2010, 01:52 AM

I'm having the same problem. Every now and then iPhoto refuses to import new pictures from the phone by showing only grey dotted boxes or doesn't show a single picture at all. Mostly that comes with saving a picture through safari/mail.

Deleting these pictures on the phone doesn't work for me, so I've been looking for another solution. When I logged in into my computer as another user iPhoto is importing every picture from the phone including the pictures saved with mail/safari. After importing them I deleted every picture from the phone and it is working again with my old account. Creating a fresh iPhoto library doesn't work, but another user does. !!??

Ok, time for further investigation.....

Now there comes the STRANGE part. Logged in as another user, you can open your original iPhoto Library (read/(write) permissions required) which refused to work with your normal user using the new user and import every single picture including safari/mail pics....

Well, the problem must sit somewhere outside of your iPhoto Library but inside of your user's account. That's where i need help: cache? sync settings?

randomkeys

Feb 5, 2010, 09:55 PM

deleting the photos on iphone from emails sent to me solved the problem!
thanks!

zelloss

Feb 9, 2010, 10:44 AM

I tested all the above mentioned tricks (reset device & laptop, uncheck the sync option on itunes, even i went as far as to uninstall itunes, etc).

Desperate to make it work i deleted all the photos I had download from the mail (long search & destroy task!!!) and simply crop some of them that I didnt want to lose and, presto! That did the trick :D

erikpmort

Mar 8, 2010, 09:50 PM

Hey after trying these i deleted a few pics i saved from a website and it worked after i closed everything and relaunched. has anyone submitted this bug to apple?

thanks dudes!

garykrboyan

Mar 31, 2010, 01:41 AM

Hi. I am trying to sync my iPhone with iPhoto, but it does not seem to work. Any suggestions? I have set iTunes to sync iPhone with iPhoto, and I have set iPhoto as the default picture program. However, I cannot get iPhoto to see iPhone when the iPhone is connected.

d3h872

Apr 18, 2010, 01:15 AM

So I'm (well, my bro-in-law) is having the same problem. Many, many photos in his phone. 2000 in fact.

Using PhotoToMac to move photos over, which is a godsend, but would love to have a "select all" feature. :)

Can't wait to see this resolved.

Galarina

Apr 18, 2010, 03:58 AM

Using PhotoToMac to move photos over, which is a godsend, but would love to have a "select all" feature. :)

Can't wait to see this resolved.

This feature is very high on the PhotoToMac todo list, but cannot be implemented with the current version of iPhone OS (3.1.3).
However, iPhone OS 4 will come to the rescue.

d3h872

Apr 19, 2010, 04:02 PM

This feature is very high on the PhotoToMac todo list...

Cool. I bet that will save many others.

ras550

Jun 4, 2010, 07:59 PM

Thanks Gumcutter! This worked like magic. My iphone showed up on my iphoto 2 days ago, and then it didnt today and I hadn't saved any new emails. I tried your fix and it worked instantly.

Andrewbrowne

Jun 10, 2010, 04:11 PM

Iphoto would not recognize my Iphone. I tried everything. BUT the problem was finally solved when I deleted "one" photo that I had downloaded from the internet two days ago. Thanks for the tip. I would have never thought that was the solution.
SEE: darkmeton's post

felixen

Jun 13, 2010, 04:38 PM

My iphone doesn't show in iPhoto either. I deleted all photos from mail/safari - only photos that aren't taken with the iphone some screenshots that I have taken of my theme.

Could this be a glitch for jailbreakers? Does anyone with a NON-jailbroken iphone have this problem??

Anyway PhotoToMac worked for me, but I still would like to get iPhoto working.

ALSO, I have this other glitch in my camera roll. I have like 10 photos that all of the sudden (months ago) turned black, and the white thing frame around each image has disappeared from these images, so if I have two of these black ones consecutively it'll look like a thick long black bar (on the length of two images, but a little bit thicker and longer because the frame is just black as well).

What the hell is this? I have around 10 of these. When I click on say 8 of them, them to make the image large, I just get a large black screen (as if the image was just all black in actuality), and the other two will turn up as the correct image when I click on it. Anyone tried this?

marnen

Jun 15, 2010, 01:06 AM

iPhoto wasn't seeing my 3GS either. Opening Image Capture fixed the problem: not only did Image Capture see the phone, but suddenly iPhoto did too.

ianne

Jun 15, 2010, 07:09 AM

Photos can be imported from a digital camera if both your computer and your camera have built-in USB ports and your camera is compatible with iPhoto. Check your computer's specifications if you are unsure if it has built-in USB ports. See the iPhoto Device Compatibility page to see if your camera or media reader is compatible with iPhoto.

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iphoneCDN

Jun 22, 2010, 05:47 PM

iPhoto wasn't seeing my 3GS either. Opening Image Capture fixed the problem: not only did Image Capture see the phone, but suddenly iPhoto did too.

This worked like a charm. Thanks!

iPhoto wasn't recognizing my iPhone 3GS.

I launched Image Capture--my iPhone was in the list of devices.

In the drop down menu, where it says "connecting this iPhone opens..." I changed the dropdown menu to open iPhoto.

http://cl.ly/ec06907d288622f71216

JDEinFLL

Jul 22, 2010, 09:54 AM

You are probably going to loose all pictures taken with your iPhone unless you can mail them to yourself, but this worked for me:
Go to iTunes and click on your iPhone in the left column (Devices)
Click on the Photos tab (across the top)
Be sure the sync option is checked and the dropdown menu is set for iPhoto
If any albums, faces or events are checked, uncheck 'em so no photos are set to sync.
Click on the Sync button (lower right corner of iTunes).
This removes all of your stored pictures.
Quit iTunes
Open Image Capture
Click on your iPhone in the left column
At the bottom of the left column, be sure the dropdown menu is set to "iPhoto app"
Quit Image Capture
Restart your computer
Restart your iPhone

See if the iphone appears in iPhoto once everything is back up and running. If it works, go back into iTunes and reinstall the Albums/Events/Faces of your choice.

kpvin

Jul 27, 2010, 08:11 AM

I also got a new iphone 4, restored 995 pics from 3G phone. After taking some new pictures, i plugged in new phone as always to transfer via iphoto and could not see the phone on the left as usual. i pushed all the buttons etc as above and just left it on and connected while researching problem online.

after a solid 3-4 minutes, the photos and phone finally appeared and worked fine... is there a chance the new phone is doing more in the background and taking longer than we gotta-have-it-now people are expecting to wait?

give patience a try.

henkhenk

Jul 28, 2010, 04:44 PM

Hi,

Just read your post. I was having the same problem.

Here is the solution.

Make sure iPhoto is open.

With iPhone in the Dock, turn it on -- or perhaps better put, unlock it or bring iPhone out of sleep.

You may notice that iPhoto will refresh.

Next in iPhoto reclick on the "Apple iPhone" under the left iPhoto source menu -- this should enable the "import" feature.

I think the key is to have the iPhone awake and active.

Please post and let me know if this works.

Thanks,

Dante
this worked for me

rotorwing

Aug 2, 2010, 06:21 PM

It will connect but you have to leave the phone connected for at least a minute and a half after launching iphoto. I've tried this across many macs and it takes at least 90 seconds for the connection to take place. Just be patient while it slowly connects until they get a fix for it.

Remember at least 90 seconds.

Hope this helps everyone out. Pass it along.

boohboo

Sep 22, 2010, 12:59 PM

I'm late to this discussion, but I found myself here 'cause my iPhone wasn't appearing in iPhoto.

It also was not appearing in Image Capture.
After a computer restart, my iPhone appeared in Image Capture, but not iPhoto.

Image capture recognized the iphone - and gave me a list of media (including helpful metadata).

For whatever reason, the checkmark next to "Share iPhone" was deselected.
Once I checked this, the photos immediately appeared in iPhoto.

If you'd like iPhoto (or other media app) to open as soon as an iPhone (or other media device) is detected by the computer, select the pulldown menu to select the appropriate app.

iHenkka

Apr 24, 2011, 11:45 AM

Problem solved, had the same issue:

Opened the Image Capture -software and immediately it popped up with the iPhone also in the iPhoto.

These issues should be DEAD EASY on Apple but somehow this is a really big problem...how come? On a PC when I plug the iPhone in, it automatically pops up with a window saying, you want to open the device / folders from the device you just hooked up...and there are automatically the IMAGE/VIDEO FOLDERS available for you in the directory-system (explorer)..

Why can't the iPhone show immediately in the Finder as well?? Can't believe it really...