Missing Photo Captions

I recently imported hundreds of captioned photos from a trip from my iPhone to my Mac (iPhotos). However, none of the captions showed up. Any ideas?

iMac, macOS 10.12

Posted on Nov 23, 2022 5:11 AM

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Posted on Nov 23, 2022 9:08 AM

How have you imported the photos from the iPhone? Did you download them directly via a USB connection, or did you sync them with iCloud Photos?

iCloud Photos will sync the captions, but the direct import will just import the original files, without any added metadata.


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Nov 23, 2022 9:15 AM in response to MDMNYC

Oops, léonie, same time same place. These were my thoughts:


Of course, we know that it does work. The question is, "why isn't it working for you?" You don't say what version of iPhone you have, or what iOS your are running. I see that your Mac is using Sierra, a pretty old OS, and I'm not sure if captioning was fully supported back then. If you give us this information, someone might be able to help.


Could you include a screenshot of the caption and picture on the iPhone and in Photos? That, too, might help.

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