Moving Photos from iPhone to Mac

[huntnboy04]

I put a lot of photos on my iPhone from iPhoto. So how do I put them back into iPhoto? thanks.

[AJ Muni]

Do you mean the new photos taken with your iphone? the ones you imported from iphoto should still be there (in iphoto that is). If you want to remove the pics u added from iphoto from your iphone, you need to un-sync the album. When you connect your iphone, iphoto should pop up asking you to import the pics you've taken on your iphone.

[huntnboy04]

Not the photos I've taken, I get the whole Camera Roll thing in the iPhone, when I sync, the pics I've taken with the iPhone import to iPhoto.

I thought, I could put photos on the iPhone and move them around, like with an iPod, so I have photos that were in iPhoto, now on my iPhone, and I need to put them into iPhoto ....it's complicated :(

[sinecurea]

If there are on your iPhone, then they should be in your iTunes too.

[Roy Hobbs]

Not the photos I've taken, I get the whole Camera Roll thing in the iPhone, when I sync, the pics I've taken with the iPhone import to iPhoto.

I thought, I could put photos on the iPhone and move them around, like with an iPod, so I have photos that were in iPhoto, now on my iPhone, and I need to put them into iPhoto ....it's complicated :(

THe photos don't leave iPhoto just like everything else (contacts, calendars, etc) they sync with your Mac. There is nothing to put back, assuming you didnt delete out of iPhoto after you but them on the phone.

[pzam]

The hard drive on my mac book crashed. Luckily, I was able to upload most unbacked up pictures to my iphone before it happened. Now how am I going to move the pictures back to my iphoto library in my new hard drive? The only copies of the pictures are in the iphone. HELP!

[ivi7]

According to me if you connect your phone to the Mac and open iPhoto it will let you import everything from your phone.

[pzam]

According to me if you connect your phone to the Mac and open iPhoto it will let you import everything from your phone.

I tried that, iphoto sees my iphone but none of my images. :( I think that function will only allow you to download pictures with the iphone not pictures downloaded from another computer (or my crashed hard drive). Any other suggestions?

[huntnboy04]

I have the same problem. You could email the pics to yourself, but like me I have like 500 pictures on my iPhone I need on the Mac, and as far as I know you can only email one picture at a time.

[ivi7]

If nothing else works how about sending it to the web gallery in .mac if you have that ofcourse. or maybe you could even do that during the trial. I really don't know what else could be done.

[pzam]

How do you email the pics from your phone? I tried using gmail using safari, and it won't allow me to attach anything. Are you able to send out files to .mac from the iphone?

[ivi7]

this (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306325) may help

[huntnboy04]

How do you email the pics from your phone?

So far I think you can only email one photo at a time. When you are looking at the photo you want to send in he photo app, in the lower left, tap that icon and a list will come up of weather you want to set a wallpaper, email, or whatever. I think you have to have an email account set up on the iPhone.

[gotzero]

I found this process a whole lot less intuitive than everything else about the phone.

This has been my first camera phone (came from blackberrys), and it is funny, that the camera is just good enough that I am actually interested in pictures now, and have some photo documentation of my life. Now it would just be a lot nicer if I could get them to sync correctly...

[J.S.Khurst]

If you have a Mac, simply open iPhoto, all the pictures will come up under devices on the left, you can choose to import some, or all, and either to keep them on your phone, or to delete them. It doesn't work in reverse, you still must use iTunes to handle specific albums.

[mcdj]

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If you have a Mac, simply open iPhoto, all the pictures will come up under devices on the left, you can choose to import some, or all, and either to keep them on your phone, or to delete them. It doesn't work in reverse, you still must use iTunes to handle specific albums.

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[Sonicjay]

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[sallythemac]

Try Image Capture. Should be able to download photos off iPhone onto any Mac. I have done so before.

[iphonecode]

I have the same problem. :apple:

[Small White Car]

The hard drive on my mac book crashed. Luckily, I was able to upload most unbacked up pictures to my iphone before it happened. Now how am I going to move the pictures back to my iphoto library in my new hard drive? The only copies of the pictures are in the iphone. HELP!

Well, first off, you're in trouble because iPhoto shrinks the photos dramatically before putting them on the phone. So even if you get them back, they are a fraction of the quality if the originals.

Secondly, e-mailing is a problem because I think it shrinks the photos too! At least, I know it shrinks the one you took with the iPhone camera. I don't know if it shrinks the synced photos, but hey, there's a pretty good chance that it does.

So what to do? I've never used this:
http://forum.iphoneworld.ca/iphone-software/how-copy-iphone-songs-videos-photos-back-computer-win-mac-3297.html

But it's what Google gave me. I'd try that first.

The bottom line is that an iPhone is NOT a backup device. Please get a firewire drive and Leopard and start using Time Machine. You'll be glad you did one day.

[jmburgos2]

Guess what guys, just take screen shots of each of your photos. It's quick, and it all goes into your camera roll, which will automatically upload to iphoto. I was so proud when this dawned on me. Hope I helped out millions and millions of people with my stroke of genius!

[Krikke68]

Guess what guys, just take screen shots of each of your photos. It's quick, and it all goes into your camera roll, which will automatically upload to iphoto. I was so proud when this dawned on me. Hope I helped out millions and millions of people with my stroke of genius!

That's a great idea!
I also found a new app PhotoToMac (http://www.galarina.eu/) that transfers your Camera Roll photos to your Mac over WiFi. I installed it immediatly and it works like a charm.

[devman]

So far I think you can only email one photo at a time.

using copy paste you can email multiple photos in the one email.

[nyisles84]

i delete iphoto the second i reformat my macs. I haven't yet tried importing to Lightroom 2 yet, I am going to have to try that when I get home and see if it knows not to import pictures it has already taken off the phone. I'd hate to have to re-install iphoto just to sync my iphone photo's with it.

[Joseph Electric]

I have the same problem. I had a pc that crashed. I bought a macbook and it will download all my Camera Roll but the 1200 pics I have from my PC will not and if I sync it will erase all my pics and replace it with whats in iphoto. Theres got to be a way.

[Redrose]

I have it too, thought to be wise enough to upload all my photo's and music (from my crashing down Imac) to my cool Iphone! Well, no luck there. :(

Like my Itunes library, so cool, now all I can do is listen to my music and see al the groovy photographs I've been taken on my coolpix camera, on.....my Iphone..... and so not on my new installed Imac.

I even tried to act on it by using the bluetooth.....yeah me is the Mac ;) nerd :D or....Oh no no no, only the adress book is visible, like I cared that much! I do use MobileMe, so everything was already in sinc, so it's not that mobile now, is it?!?

Now I'm going to wait 'till Leopard snow is there to buy, the upgrade that is.
Then I'm going to do whatever is necesarry to get my pictures and music back....

Note to me and you, in the future, make sure you have a back up on your external disc regarding the Iphoto and Itunes library.....
Note to #Apple do be more friendly to your way :apple: groovy friends and "nerds", otherwise you might lose them to......... (oh yeah baby) Microsoft!!!! LOL

Apple is way smart for not letting you download pictures (wonder what's the score in this for them) and your music you didn't buy from the store (that's so rude) or whatever... :cool:

Think the :apple: people might read this, hope they do act on my well informed critisisme, don't think so, never mind, it does have a nice ring too it for me! And even so I WANT my pictures BACK!!!!! :(:eek::confused:

[chadrob30]

Try Image Capture. Should be able to download photos off iPhone onto any Mac. I have done so before.

Bingo! I found this to be the easiest way.

[JustinBrown]

i have the same problem.

my MBP took a dive and crashed the HDD (i guessed i backed up everything else of course).

i can download the pictures i took with the camera using Picasa just fine, but i can't figure how to transfer the pictures in the Photo Library in iPhone TO my new MBP (the ones i synced to a folder on my crashed MBP)...

the screen capture is a great idea, but not when you have a couple hundred pics...

any suggestions? thanks!

UPDATE: it looks like Tansee iPhone Transfer Photo (http://www.tansee.com/iphonetransferphoto.html) can do what i'm looking for, but i would still like to find a way to do this without installing third-party software (especially windows-only). it's also $19.95 with a free trial that can transfer 6 photos.

[Small White Car]

it looks like Tansee iPhone Transfer Photo (http://www.tansee.com/iphonetransferphoto.html) can do what i'm looking for

On the Mac side I've discovered http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ which works well.

But it's also a 3rd-party, $20 program.

So that doesn't answer your question, but it's something else, at least.

[-aggie-]

Just a FYI, but I've discovered that a number of the programs I used (sharepod, iphonebrowser, ipod2pc) no longer work now that iTunes 9 and OS 3.1 came out. This may be an issue for any of the other programs as well. I'd be wary of buying anything, unless you can get a trial.

Edit: sharepod works now.

[JustinBrown]

Just a FYI, but I've discovered that a number of the programs I used (sharepod, iphonebrowser, ipod2pc) no longer work now that iTunes 9 and OS 3.1 came out. This may be an issue for any of the other programs as well. I'd be wary of buying anything, unless you can get a trial.

good point, thanks.

[osc4r]

Guys, just open Preview.app, go to File -> Import from iPhone and select the pictures you want imported..

It's that easy, at least nowadays ;)

[Prom1]

Guess what guys, just take screen shots of each of your photos. It's quick, and it all goes into your camera roll, which will automatically upload to iphoto. I was so proud when this dawned on me. Hope I helped out millions and millions of people with my stroke of genius!

Unfortunately I don't own a Mac, I'm on WinXP and I cannot find my Camera Roll photos after syncing with iTunes; no setting for it in iTunes either? So How do I get my pics off this??

Never Mind: Win Explorer shows them when clicking on iphone camera. They're listed in .png format.

[-aggie-]

Unfortunately I don't own a Mac, I'm on WinXP and I cannot find my Camera Roll photos after syncing with iTunes; no setting for it in iTunes either? So How do I get my pics off this??

Never Mind: Win Explorer shows them when clicking on iphone camera. They're listed in .png format.

Use sharepod, like I suggested above. If sharepod doesn't show them, then they are not there.

[CrAkD]

sorry to bump an ancient thread. but I decided to start using iphoto tonight and it can only see the 12 images in my "camera roll" I have a few photo libraries on my phone each with 500 each. anyone know how to do this without buying/installing 3rd party apps?

[Abul Jouj]

It's pretty easy to move photos using Image Capture. It should recognize your iPhone, once it's connected. I just moved all the photos off my iPhone in under a minute.

[j0417]

I am using iPhone 4 to Macbook Pro. I had all iPhoto EVENTS sync from iTunes to iPhone 4. Then I lost all my iPhoto photos. As you are aware iPhoto will only syn what is in your Camera Roll. Anything else is on the hard drive with no way to get back. An AMAZING file share program I found in another forum worked perfectly. Its in the Apple APP Store called "SCOTTY" formally known as "PhotoToMac." It worked great! Turn on file share from your mac and then use "Scotty" you can transfer by individual photo or by album, saved all of my photos! In the future invest in an external hard drive and use time machine like i will be. :D

[jimereymane]

image capture as well. Just select the images you want and drag em to your comp. or import all of em as well