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How to fix image import from iOS 17.x and iPhone 15 Pro Max to High Sierra's "Photos" application
This should be simple...
I HAD seen this answered on a different forum, but now the thread can't be found. I posted new, asking for the answer or a link to the previous thread, and I got deleted ...
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Export photos with timestamp in filename
I'm trying to export photos from iPhone using mac os Photos app.
The problem is that there is no way of structuring them in a format that will allow to easily access them by date.
Ideally I'd like ...
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Is Live Text OCR data stored somewhere?
I’m finding the Live Text feature on iOS to be incredibly useful. For example, it allows me to copy example sentences from the Duolingo language-learning app if I save the sentence as screenshot.
I’d ...
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How to access Photos library from Monterey on OS X 10.6.8?
I have a bunch of videos saved in Photos which was running on a OS Monterey 12.6.6. I have an older MacBook that is running 10.6.8. It has iPhoto but that does not recognize the Photos library. What ...
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OS X - How do I remove photos from my iPhone using the Photos app after import?
So I import all photos/videos off of my iPhone to Photos on a daily basis after upgrading from iPhoto and it works well overall, so far.
The problem is that, while Photos does give me the option to &...
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How to free up Photos space on my Mac?
I just found out that almost the entire space on my Mac has been taken by photoslibrary.photoslibrary, I have 250Gb entire space where 210Gb is taken by photos .photoslibrary.
NOTE: I don't need to ...
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Does macOS Photos have a QR code reader built in somehow, does it decode codes in images?
I just imported a group of photos from my iPhone to Photos in macOS and the application "hiccuped" twice at the point where it read in two images of complicated QR-codes.
"hiccuped"...
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Run location-based Shortcut to toggle airplane mode
I have a simple shortcut that turns on airplane mode when I arrive home. How can I trigger this to run automatically—without tapping for confirmation?
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No GPS tags on iPhone photos
iPhone 7 plus with latest iOS. To the best of my knowledge, I have never disabled location services for Camera or Compass. I’ve taken many photos and most have GPS tags embedded. But today, I took ...
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Photos can't be copied from phone since iOS 17 upgrade
I'm trying to copy a photo from my iPhone and am unable to do so since Apple unilaterally upgraded my phone to iOS 17.1.1
Firstly, I can't copy any photos using AirDrop, WhatsApp, iMessage, Copy, or ...
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Copy list of file names of photos, not the photos, in Photos app from iPhone
To copy a list of file names, not the files, from Mac Finder, I can select multiple files, copy and paste into a TextEdit file. This will paste a list of the file names.
I would like to do that with ...
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Moving a edited video out of Photos and back in, returns video to original state, not edited state
On iPhone, I took a video in portrait mode and edited it (rotated it) to be in landscape mode. It played in landscape mode. I used Image Capture to copy this video to my Mac. Two files showed up in ...
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How can I remove photos from an iPad Min without having to restore it?
My iPad mini is overloaded with pictures. I would like to delete them without having to restore the device and lose years of my iBook annotations. Is there a way to get these photos off my iPad mini ...
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I have no photos in my album but it still says that it takes 508 MB of space on my iphone [duplicate]
So I have no photos in my phone, but it still says that it takes 508 MB when I look at my usage in settings. There is literally no photos at all, even the recently deleted has been deleted, and I don'...
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Easy way to permanently delete all photos and videos from iPad/iPhone
It seems really hard to me to permanently delete all photos and videos from iPad. I tried different solutions, like:
Transferring them using iPhoto and then deleting them by iPhoto
Using iTunes to ...
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How to Permanently Delete Photos from iPhone
I have so many photos on the iPhone. And my iPhone's internal space is not enough now.
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I have deleted all photos from my iPhone 4s but phone usage and iTunes still show 16gb of photos
I had 25GB of photos on my 4s. I have deleted all of them, some via the photos app, and some via windows explorer.
Unfortunately, phone usage and iTunes is still showing 16GB of photos. I backed up ...
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Photos can't be deleted from iPhone
There are some photos on my iPhone 6 plus that I want to get rid of but I can't. When I click the photo the trash-can disappears. When I click edit a note pops up saying these photos are not editable. ...
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I can't delete photos on my iPhone 4s even though the delete button is there, why?
I've selected the photos I want to delete but, the delete button isn't turning blue. They were all taken on the iPhone but, the sim card has been removed. Do I need the sim card or not to delete the ...
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How do I disable iCloud without losing all my photos?
I foolishly enabled iCloud hoping that I could sync photos between my apple devices. However, I do not want the same photos on all my devices and I do not want ANY at all stored long term in my cloud. ...
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I would like to delete some photos from my phone camera roll, that i have imported to my Mac, will they stay on my Mac?
I recently imported all my photos from my iPhone to my Mac. Now they are on both devices. I would like to delete some of them from my phone camera roll, but i want them to stay on my Mac. Will the ...
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Ensure emptying 'Recently Deleted' succeeds?
I have deleted ~25,000 photos and videos from iPhone. They're now in 'Recently Deleted', and I want them permanently gone so I can transfer the remaining contents of the iPhone to a new iPhone.
When I ...
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Why does deleting an iCloud photo on my Mac not delete it from my iPhone?
I have turned on iCloud Photos sync. When I remove a photo on the Mac, I can see that it’s also deleted from iCloud on the web. I would like it to disappear on my iPhone as well, but it’s still there.
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Tangled up iCloud photos
I have my iPhone photos auto-uploaded to the iCloud.
When my son got home from college, all his photos also uploaded to the iCloud.
Consequently, I have thousands of his photos intermixed with all of ...
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How to download entire iCloud photo library to external drive attached to my MacBook
I have a large iCloud photo library (60K + images). I want to keep my iCloud library as it is and make a copy of it onto an external drive (attached to my MacBook, running Big Sur). What is the ...
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How to delete photo from Album and Library at the same time?
I am using MacOS BigSur / Photos 6.0
I have photos in the Album that I want to delete completely from everywhere.
If I delete it found in the Album, it still keeps the photo in the Library, so in ...
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Spotlight Not Showing Core Applications on macOS Sonoma 14.0: How to Fix?
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Spotlight Not Showing Core Applications on macOS Sonoma 14.0: How to Fix?
Problem Description:
I used to rely on Spotlight to quickly open Core Applications like Finder, Contacts,Photos, and ...
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How to separate Favorites between participants in iCloud Shared Photo library?
My wife and I share an iCloud Shared Photo Library, and I have recently discovered that we use likes / hearts / Favorites very differently. While albums and faces do not sync between separate ...
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Gathering photos from multiple sources on a new iMac
For a home system, multiple computers and systems would like to access a shared photo dataset. I'm helping them to set up their new system, but I'm not experienced in administrating computers or ...
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How to add location metadata to photos' files in macOS Photos app?
In the macOS Photos app (and I suppose the same for iOS and iPadOS), when you assign a location to a photo, the location is not actually added to the regular exif metadata of the photo. I suppose it ...
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How do I know if I am viewing low resolution or full resolution photos?
On my iPhone 15 Pro Max I have gone to Settings > Photos and then checked option 'Optimise iPhone Storage', so that my photos are stored in iCloud.
When I am viewing a photo in the Photos app, how ...
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How does Maps on Mac OS determine the computer's location
How does Maps on Mac OS finds the computer's location so precisely?
There is no GPS chip on the Mac, so how does it really work?
Can someone provide details about the process used by the Mac OS ...
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Is the Photos To Disk third party app still available?
I want to convert a photoslibrary file to a system of folders corresponding to Photos events with jpg images instead of the Apple Photos format. An earlier thread (started by Manchineel) said that ...
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Best way to recover a photo library when it is incompatible with current os
I’d like to delve deeper into recovering a Photos library. The originals are very easy to get back. How/where is stuff like added locations and facial recognition/people data stored, and now pets. I’...
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iCloud Photo Library stopped syncing
My iCloud Photo Library was working great, but I ran out of space and it stopped syncing. Now I’ve bought more space and restarted my devices, but it is still not syncing.
How can I get it to start ...
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Export media from iPhone directly to external drive?
Is there a way to export directly from my iPhone to an external HDD using Photos.app?
I always have to import them, thus writing them to my laptop and then to the external HDD. Is it possible to skip ...
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How can I attach a photo in Gmail on iPhone rather than inline it with the body of the mail?
I want to attach a photo in Gmail on iPhone.
If I open Gmail and click on the paperclip attachment icon and select a photo, it does not attach a photo but instead it inserts the photo within the mail....
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iPhone storage issue
My iPhone 12 64GB iOS v16.1.1 keeps running out of space. I've performed all the options in 'Manage Storage', removed all but my essentials apps, pruned messages/ attachments, regularly restart etc. ...
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My current location "my location" is not getting updated on any browser
I have enabled "Location services" on my browsers:
However maps.google.com and https://www.gps-coordinates.net/my-location show me either 15 miles to the southwest or 20 miles to the south-...
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Avoiding file duplications between the 'Pictures' folder and Photos App
To the best of my knowledge all Macs come with a 'Pictures' folder /Users/me/Pictures, which I have been using for years. For reasons I cannot explain, Photos App does not just simply read this folder ...
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Import screenshot images automatically, using an Automator script and Folder Action, referenced photos on server
I have my Apple Photos.app library on my iMac and my referenced photos on a networked Mac mini. The goal is to import all screenshot images automatically, using an Automator script and Folder Action, ...
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Is there a way to have iCloud back up only the latest photos?
I have only 50GB on iCloud but 256GB on my iPhone. I'd like to have iCloud to hold only the latest photos. So when I take new pictures/videos, the older ones would get removed from iCloud to make room ...
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When I save a photo in MacOS Messages, where does it go?
In order to save myself from having to convert files from HEIC format, I decided to send the photos from my phone to my computer using Messages.
I clicked this icon next to the photos in the MacOS ...
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Add images to existing PDF with Preview
Preview allows to add text and shapes to PDFs. But is it possible to add existing images (PNG / JPEG) to a PDF file as well?
I do know that Preview already has some of image embedding by allowing the ...
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How to Obtain specific albums from Photos Library in finder?
I need to access specific photo albums in the Finder folder system.
The albums in Photos app look like this:
The corresponding Photos Library in finder looks like this:
Is there a way to find these ...
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Two Way sync between specific Photos App albums and Google Drive?
Can a two-way sync be created between the Photos App (from iPhone/Mac) and Google Drive?
I need to sync specific albums on the Photo App to Google Drive such that when a photo is added to the album (...
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Icloud deleting photos when trying to sync with pc
I'm trying to help my friend backup her entire photocollection 25k+ images from Icloud. However her macbook pro mid 2012 has a history of crashing so we thought we might use my win 10 pc instead. I ...
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Full IPhone SE and iCloud Sync Whak-a-mole
I have an iPhone SE that has become problematically full (Can't update, install useful apps, or backup things like WhatsApp).
Also, the iCloud storage is full. The phone has about 6-7 years of photos (...
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Filtering a photo of a document to look like a proper scan
So there are a couple of iOS apps that "scan" documents and automatically do some processing to make the image look like a quality scan from a real scanner.
When I'm trying this on the Mac with ...
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The Places map in my macOS Photos.app library is empty
What I did:
Created a custom non-iCloud, non-system photo library and imported my photos from an external camera.
All photos are referenced from external files, i.e. not embedded into the library ...
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