How to copy all photos from iPhone to macOS 1-to-1?
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Using Photos.app on the Mac and Importing all photos doesn't work (it gets stuck on "Importing 3 out of 2421...")
So I switched to Image Capture.app which should be easier to debug.
Image Capture.app fails if there are two photos with the same name excluding the extension. For example, there could be an IMG_1110.HEIC from this year and an IMG_1110.HEIC from last year in the list that Image Capture shows (perhaps because of AirDrop or copying photos via other means to the iPhone, I'm not sure how two totally different photos ended up there with the same name) and Image Capture will fail when it hits the second one (it says "Camera disconnected during import"). The same problem happens if there is IMG_0667.HEIC and IMG_0667.MOV.
In these cases, the only solution I can think of is to go into my iPhone, delete the least desired of the two conflicting photos, then resume Image Capture's Download All.
So I have to perform _a lot_ of manual intervention to import photos to my Mac using Photos.app or Image Capture.app, and it's also a huge shame that it's impossible to preserve _both_ files without going through a lot more pain and hassle.
Please can someone teach me an easy, pain point-free way to just copy all the photos from my iPhone to my Mac.
Asked by Nils
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Jul 18, 2025, 03:25 AM
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