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My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air (It's Fixed Now)

NickNack — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:00:30 GMT

I have never had a problem with photos before but just took a few pictures that aren't showing up on my MacBook Air. They're on my phone but not my laptop. I looked on icloud dot com, and they aren't there either. I Googled this issue and can't find a solution.

I had a problem with my internet and telephone the other day (Comcast) and had to disconnect and reconnect my WiFi. I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it. My computer had disconnected from my printer, and I had to reset that just now. Does anyone know what I can try to get my pictures to show up on my laptop?

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

I am still oxox — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:10:48 GMT

Can you hook the phone up to the computer and try a forced sync

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

Mz iMac — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:32:27 GMT

"I Googled this issue and can't find a solution."

From Google....

How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to Mac

For OS X, the fastest and simplest way to copy pictures from an iPhone to a Mac is with Image Capture and Preview. We’ll discuss how with both apps.

Using Image Capture to Import Photos in OS X

Image Capture is a fast and efficient way to pull photos off the iPhone, which treats the device as a digital camera:

Open Image Capture from the /Applications/ directory (or through Launchpad)
Connect the iPhone to the Mac through USB
Select a folder from the menu (default is Pictures folder) and then click “Import All”
OR: Select individual photos, and click “Import” to only copy those pictures over

Image Capture is my preferred method because it’s fast, efficient, no frills, and allows users to quickly and easily copy the images from an iPhone (or iPad, or any camera), directly to the Mac. You simply choose where in the file system to copy the pictures, and it transfers them for you.

You can also transfer pictures to your Mac with Photos app, iPhoto, or Preview, which is just as simple and actually has a virtually identical interface for initiating the transfer.

Here is how to import with Preview:

Copying Photos to the Mac with Preview in OS X

Though Preview is usually thought of as an image viewer, it can also serve as a fast importer:

Plug your iPhone into your Mac
Launch Preview
From the File menu navigate down and select “Import from iPhone…”
Select “Import All” to get all the pictures, otherwise individually select pictures and click ‘Import’
Look in your ~/Pictures/ folder for the photos from your iPhone

Optionally: Click the checkbox with “Delete after import” if you want to delete the photos after they have been copied over to the computer.

The benefit of using either Preview or Image Capture is that these apps are on virtually every version of OS X since from the very beginning of the OS, so you won’t find a Mac version without them. iPhoto on the other hand is generally limited to the consumer model Macs, thus making it not always available on pro models, but it does work as well, and iPhoto will also serve as a photo manager of sorts.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

NickNack — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:59:58 GMT

Thanks @Mz iMac and @I am still oxox. It's fixed now. I called Apple Support this morning. He talked me through a few things and still couldn't figure it out. He researched it further and called me back, and now it's fixed. I shouldn't have to connect the iPhone to the computer. It has always shown up instantly on my laptop in the past. Hopefully I won't have this problem again. Thanks again for trying to help.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

jaxs mom — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:23:44 GMT

Yes, you should not have to physically sync. When I occasionally get that problem I close photos on my mac and then reopen it may take a new seconds for it to sync the new pictures. Worst case scenario completely rebooting the phone usually fixes any issue.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

glb613 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:09:22 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
Thanks @Mz iMac and @I am still oxox. It's fixed now. I called Apple Support this morning. He talked me through a few things and still couldn't figure it out. He researched it further and called me back, and now it's fixed. I shouldn't have to connect the iPhone to the computer. It has always shown up instantly on my laptop in the past. Hopefully I won't have this problem again. Thanks again for trying to help.

What was done to fix it? It's nice for people to share what solves a problem in case someone else has the same thing happen.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

NickNack — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:09:38 GMT

@glb613 wrote:
@NickNack wrote:
Thanks @Mz iMac and @I am still oxox. It's fixed now. I called Apple Support this morning. He talked me through a few things and still couldn't figure it out. He researched it further and called me back, and now it's fixed. I shouldn't have to connect the iPhone to the computer. It has always shown up instantly on my laptop in the past. Hopefully I won't have this problem again. Thanks again for trying to help.
What was done to fix it? It's nice for people to share what solves a problem in case someone else has the same thing happen.

@glb613 We tried many things, some of them I had already tried. What finally worked was plugging in my computer to the wall and plugging in my phone to the wall. I don't understand why that worked. My computer was at around 35%, and my phone was at 85%.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

jaxs mom — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:19:18 GMT

That is an odd fix.

Re: My Photos Are On My iPhone But Not My MacBook Air

NickNack — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:08:19 GMT

@jaxs mom wrote:
That is an odd fix.

@jaxs mom I agree. It was very strange to me that it worked.