With USB cable connection (no cloud) to import from updated iPhones (11 Pro Max, 12 mini, and 13 with their updated iOSes) into updated macOSes (Ventura v13.x, Big Sur v10.11.x, and Mojave v10.14.x)'s Photos app, I noticed imports show already imported medias and missing brand new medias.
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MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)
Hi! Yes, I've been experiencing the same issues. I was last able to import photos a few weeks ago, leaving about a third of photos non-imported. I've also updated my MacBook Pro in the meantime to Sonoma 14.4.1, as well as my iPhone 11 to 17.4.1. Yet every time I try to import, it starts the process and immediately stops.
Hi! Yes, I've been experiencing the same issues. I was last able to import photos a few weeks ago, leaving about a third of photos non-imported. I've also updated my MacBook Pro in the meantime to Sonoma 14.4.1, as well as my iPhone 11 to 17.4.1. Yet every time I try to import, it starts the process and immediately stops.
Try using Image Capture which comes with each system. It's not automatically so you'll have to choose which photos to import. You can either import the photos into your Photos library or download them to a folder.
Thanks. It seems Apple did something in its iPhone's iOS since Mojave v10.14.6 has the same problem. What's up? Grrr. What did you have before Sonoma v14 with this issue?
Since Apple broke this Photos app’s import, is there a free alternative macOS app that is easy to use? I know Lightroom isn't free.
I believe I had the version of Mojave you mentioned here…
Just for kicks. I deleted my macOS Ventura v13.6.7's Photos app's ~/Pictures/Library.photolibrary, relaunched Photos app, started a new library filename to be in clean/new state, imported all of my 99 images (small collection) from my iPhone 12 mini (iOS v17.4.1), again saw most of them and a few missing recent ones, exited Photos app, relaunched it, went to import my iPhone's images, and again still see some of the already imported images. Yeah, Apple broke something its Photos import from iPhones. :( I left feedbacks to Apple about this issue. I hope they will look and fix it. We all need to do this.
Does anyone have problems importing iPhones’ medias into macOS’ Photos app via USB cables?
