Getting iPhone Photos to talk with Mac's Photos

[ayres]

Hi all, I have a question that's been on my mind for a while. Note, I don't use iCloud for photo storage. Rather, I connect my phone to my mba and save photos to Photos. that's been my mo for years.

My question pertains to the 'favorites' in macOS Photos and the 'favorites' in iOS Photos. Am I correct in assuming that selecting a photo as a favorite on my phone will not carry over when I dump my photos to macOS?

Doesn't it make sense that if I 'heart' an image on my phone, then the photo saves to macOS as a favorite?

But from what i can tell, that's not how it works. macOS favorite photos and iOS favorite photos are unrelated.

Am I wrong?

Thoughts?

 

[lemieuxfan67]

I have iCloud Photo Library, so I can't test this myself. My thinking is that favoriting a photo just puts it in an album called favorites on your phone. When you connect your phone to your mac to transfer the photos, you are only transferring the photos, not the album information. Now, if you use iTunes to sync your photo library back to your iPhone, my thinking would be that since you can select which albums to sync, the option to sync favorites from the mac back to the iPhone would work.

 

[ayres]

Thanks, you might be right about the iTunes approach. It crossed my mind, but I’ve rarely looked at my phone through iTunes. I’ll investigate. Cheers

I have iCloud Photo Library, so I can't test this myself. My thinking is that favoriting a photo just puts it in an album called favorites on your phone. When you connect your phone to your mac to transfer the photos, you are only transferring the photos, not the album information. Now, if you use iTunes to sync your photo library back to your iPhone, my thinking would be that since you can select which albums to sync, the option to sync favorites from the mac back to the iPhone would work.