How to Download Pictures From Phone to Mac UPDATED

How to Download Pictures From Phone to Mac

Import photos from a photographic camera or phone using Photos on Mac

You tin can connect a camera, iPhone, iPad, or other mobile device to your Mac and import your photos into the Photos app.

You can also import photos from a photographic camera'south memory carte. Run across Import photos from storage devices and DVDs using Photos.

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Import photos from a photographic camera, iPhone, or iPad

Connect a camera, iPhone, or iPad to your computer.
Make certain the camera or device is turned on and the camera is fix to the correct fashion for importing photos.

For information on which mode to choose, run across the instructions provided with your camera. If your camera has a "slumber" mode, brand sure it'due south disabled or set to a time bridge long enough to permit your images to download.
Open Photos (if it isn't already open), so click the device under Devices in the sidebar.

Note: Devices appears in the sidebar only when a camera or storage device is connected.

Photos displays all the photos and videos on the device.

Tip: If you want Photos to open whenever you connect this device, select the Open Photos checkbox.
If you want to delete photos from the photographic camera later on importing them, select the "Delete items" checkbox.

This option does not appear for all cameras.
To set up where to import the photos, do i of the post-obit:
- Import into an existing album: Click the "Import to" pop-upwardly card, then cull the album y'all desire from the listing.
- Import into a new anthology: Click the "Import to" pop-up menu, choose New Album, enter an album name, then click OK.
- Import into the Photos library without specifying an album: Click the "Import to" pop-up menu, then choose Library.
Do one of the following:
- Import all new photos: Click Import All New Items.
- Import a selection of photos: Click the photos you want to import, then click Import Selected.
If a bulletin asks whether yous want to delete or keep the photos on your camera later on they're imported, click Delete Items to remove the photos, or click Keep Items to keep them on the camera.

Photos imports your photos. To cancel importing, click Cease Import.
When all photos take been imported, disconnect the camera or device from your computer.

If y'all didn't import the photos into an album, they appear in the Imports anthology in the sidebar. They also appear among the other days and months in your Photos library; to browse them, click Library in the sidebar. To organize imported photos into albums, select photos in the Imports album and elevate them into albums in the sidebar.

If you have photos taken with a film photographic camera, you lot can import them into Photos past converting them to digital files (using the Image Capture app and a dwelling scanner). With Continuity Camera, yous can have a picture show or browse a course or document using your nearby iPhone or iPad and have the photo or scan appear instantly on your Mac. Meet Insert photos and scans with Continuity Camera. You tin can likewise use the Paradigm Capture app to gear up Photos to open automatically whenever you lot connect your photographic camera. See Scan images in Paradigm Capture and Transfer images in Image Capture.

Tip: You can alter the date and time of scanned images in Photos; select the prototype and choose Paradigm > Adjust Engagement and Fourth dimension.

Import from a tertiary-party mobile telephone or device

If you use a third-party phone or other mobile device, y'all may be able to connect the device to your computer using a USB cablevision, then copy photos from the phone into Photos only as you would from an external storage device.

Note: Some third-party phones may connect to a calculator using a Bluetooth (wireless) connectedness. Use the Bluetooth File Exchange app to import photos via Bluetooth.

Connect the phone to your reckoner.
Drag the photos onto your computer's internal disk.
Do ane of the following:
- Drag files or folders from the Finder to the Photos window.
- Drag files or folders from the Finder to the Photos icon in the Dock.
- In Photos, choose File > Import. Select the photos or folder that yous want to import, and then click Review for Import. If yous selected multiple photos or videos, select the photos or video that y'all want to import, and then click Import [number] Selected or Import All.