![]() In the sidebar on the left, click Devices, then select the name of your iPhone (your name will be different from mine).This app can’t transfer files from phones you don’t have login access to. NOTE: During launch, the application will ask you to unlock to your iPhone. Launch the app ( Applications > Image Capture).Use a cable to connect your iPhone to your Mac.The Image Capture Help files go into these options in more detail. NOTE: You can use Image Capture to transfer files from an iPad or a camera. And what I discovered is that this app makes transferring media even easier than Preview. Hmm… I don’t think I’ve ever launched Image Capture, so this week, I decided to take a closer look. ( See it here.) Afterward, a reader wrote to say they used Image Capture (another Apple-supplied application) for the same purpose and found it easier to use. How to transfer your iPhone photos to a Mac with a cable 1.Last week, I posted a video demo on how to use Preview to transfer media files from an iPhone to a Mac. There are some solid options for moving photos wirelessly, but we found they can struggle to deal with large videos and you may see your images re-compressed, which will reduce image quality. You need to use a third-party work-around for wireless transfers. ![]() ![]() Using a PC? We recommend sticking with a cable at it feels much like drag and dropping files from a USB stick or external hard drive. AirDrop is also intuitive, and quick to get going: more enjoyable to use even with an older Mac that may not beat cabled speeds. With recent-generation hardware, AirDrop can actually be faster than a cabled connection as Lightning limits transfers to USB 2.0 speeds – that's 60MB per second in theory, but it is closer to 30MB according to our testing. That does not hold here, if you want to transfer to a Mac rather than a PC. The received wisdom for file transfers is to use a cable if you want quick transfers, or wireless if you’re on-the-go or don’t have a cable to hand. ![]()
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