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After using AirDrop to get a photo from iPhone to Macbook, the file format is HEIC and can I choose "one of" the sequences of photos?
The HEIC format (and file extension such as IMG_1201.HEIC) is probably what the format is when the iPhone takes the photo that is "live" -- that a user can choose one frame out of the many frames for ...
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Locate stolen 2015 MacBook Pro with no location on Find My
A friend said he could replace the screen on our 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina display. He sold the laptop to his cousin and we don’t know who or where he is, but he told us to pay him the money he ...
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The best way to download images from iPhone to Mac
What is the easiest way to download photos from iPhone 8 (16.7) to mac running Mojave (so no finder sync)? Options that I do not want - iCloud (in the case one does not pay), iTunes (insanely ...
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How to see photos and delete the bad ones?
I have a folder with 200 photos and would like to delete the bad ones. I tried to sort them by Creation Date in the Finder and open with Quick Look:
But when I press Cmd+Del all selected photos are ...
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photos randomly disappearing from iphone
My father has iPhone 8 same as me. He has been suffering from a strange issue when photos suddenly disappear. But not all. He takes a picture and when he wants to check it later, it is not in the ...
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How to clear out this Photos/ Camera Roll related data taking space on the iPhone even after Deleting all Pictures?
iPhone 6 iOS 10.2:
Used iMazing: Selected iPhone Between left sidebar options: Pick “Camera” instead of “Photos” - kinda counterintuitive. Select All / CTRL A Delete from right Menu / or Trash icon ...
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How to use the FaceTime Live Photos on tvOS?
Using FaceTime on iOS and iPadOS, there's a circular white button that takes a still frame of the video:
It doesn't seem to be available while on a call directly on the TV :
Is there a way to take ...
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How to free storage on iPhone from photos synced to iCloud
My wife has an iPhone and I have enabled the iCloud sync and storage optimization so I expected that photos were to be deleted on the iPhone if the free space would become scarce.
However, several GB ...
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How can I find “IMG_5983.MOV” when Photos calls its files 0472F3DE-5F86-1478-59EC-836FE208CDBD.mov?
When I attempt playing a video in Photos (8.0) on macOS (Ventura
13.5.2), Photos will occasionally tell me:
Videos with unavailable original files cannot be opened. The original video “IMG_5983.MOV” ...
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Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal?
Some GUI apps use OS X location services, but I want to retrieve a Mac's physical location from the command line. This could be useful for running scripts, switching settings etc. The mechanism should ...
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How to force MacOS to scan for duplicate photos?
I have recently imported a lot of pictures into the Mac Photos App and cannot get it to scan for duplicates. The import caused many pictures to be duplicates and it actually found two duplicates. For ...
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Photos app on macOS doesn't upload any photos ("Sync session in push got error")
I want to upload around 20k of photos in a complete new Photos iCloud library. However, the app stops uploading after around 900 images.
With the command
log stream --style syslog --predicate '(...
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Can I get my iPhone SE to save photos without so much useless padding at the end?
I'm writing a Jpeg/Exif parser program and it has revealed to me that the photos that come off my "iPhone SE (2nd generation)" have a ton of useless 0's at the end. A Jpeg file is supposed ...
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Export all images in a burst photo in Photos to separate images on my laptop
I've looked at all the items listed at the end, and still can not find any instructions that match what I see on my laptop in terms of exporting to files on my hard drive.
Question: I have a burst ...
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Saved Apple Maps locations in Guide keep sorting south to north
In saved locations in Guides in Apple Maps, there is a button to sort by Name, Distance or Date Added. If I click 'Distance' the locations are sorted by nearest distance to me.
But if I close the ...
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iPhone 7 Plus - Both Cameras partially not working properly
We have an old iPhone 7 Plus, and it has been used by 2 of the members in my family, and now they have upgraded to 13's and 14's with this phone being mine.
Despite the fact that iOS 15.7 is the ...
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Recording of personal data while the Apple Watch is locked?
Does Apple Watch (or, more specifically, Apple Watch Ultra, in case of different behavior) record personal information while the device is locked, and then associate it with the active account, when ...
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No location in metadata of place when in plane?
I have noticed when taking photos in airplane, the phone has no metadata. I don’t know why but is there a app which can save metadata of where the plane is passing like offline google maps for ...
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iPhone 12 camera inserts unknown icon in photo of crossword puzzle
I photograph solved crossword puzzles at nyxcrossword.com. I use the photo as answers to the same blank puzzle I am trying to solve. I use an iPhone 12 recently upgraded to iOS 15.1.1
Since the ...
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Unable to log into Hulu through Chrome because "Location is turned off in Mac System Preferences", but setting is on and still won't let me in
I am trying to log into Hulu with Chrome and it asks to share my location. I say yes. It goes to log in and I get a popup for a location request. I accept and the browser says my location has been ...
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Select files from the "Photos" app on iOS
How can I select files from the "Photos" directly, without first manually copying from the "Photos" app to the "Files" app?
Currently, in order to send the original, ...
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How to turn slo-mo into time lapse?
I accidentally chose slo-mo to record a long video instead of time lapse. How can I convert it?
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Backing up huge iCloud photo library to external HDD
I have a large iCloud photo library of about 30,000 irreplaceable images and videos. It is entirely hosted on icloud - I am using the 'optimise iphone storage' setting and have no high res images ...
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How does one make 6000 iPad photos editable?
History - many years of Apple devices - MacBooks, iPhones, iPads.
Result= 8000+ photos viewable on iPad but 6000 of them won't sync with Photo or iMazing.
A workaround is for each photo to try to edit ...
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continuously push accurate location to remote server
for reasons i want to push the accurate location of my iphone to a remote server. I want to automatically repeat this action every 10 Seconds for 4 hours. I have tried using the shortcuts app but it ...
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How to get rid of the "share with Instagram contacts" option from iOS Photos?
Using iOS 15.7.6 on an iPod Touch, when I go to any photo in my camera roll and press "share," the very first option listed is a profile picture from a random account I follow on Instagram. ...
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How to compile memory videos from a shared album?
For a normal album, you can just click the three dots at the top right corner of the open album and select "Play Memory Video" to create one and then edit the memory video from there.
The &...
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Can’t post photos in FB iOS. No setting for it
My wife’s iPhone XR has the FB app on it. It will not allow photos to be posted. When you try it says it needs to have access, and takes you to the Facebook settings panel. There is no setting there ...
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How to fix the dates of photos in Photos.app to match the EXIF data?
My photo editing workflow uses Lightroom to develop the photos before exporting to disk and importing into Photos.app.
The problem is that the photos in Photos.app have their date set to the import ...
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Location History & Nearby Devices (macOS & iOS)
On Thursday last week, I was sitting at home in front of my MacBook Pro at my home in Brisbane, Australia. I also had my iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPad Air 4.
I have a proximity alert, triggered on my ...
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macOS Settings will not let me change region from Afghanistan
I reinstalled macOS. I must have mistakenly chosen Afghanistan as my region. However, now I cannot change it.
In Settings > General > Language & Region, there is a drop-down list to select a ...
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Shared photo library. Why photo location information is not shared?
Using Photos Family Shared Library between me and my family. I would assume that when somebody in the family add photo to Shared Library all meta-data of the photo would be included as well. However ...
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Copying photos and iTunes libraries from an old to a new Mac
I learned the hard way that I should not copy
~/Library/Messages/ from an old mac to a new mac. The usual ability to use Messages to write messages then works only when writing to iOS users (the blue ...
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Moving photos to another iCloud account and device, with full resolution, edit history, everything
I need to move photos from one iCloud account (my work account, on my work iPhone) to another one (my private account on my private iPhone). I used the work phone for a while to take photos, but now I ...
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Getting Photos on MB Pro and iPhone/iPad/iCloud.com in sync
A senior whom I am trying to help with her Photos problem purchased PowerPhotos this morning. We were delighted to find that PowerPhotos was indeed able to merge her old and new Photos libraries and ...
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How to open URL from screenshot
I recently saw a comment online by a user who said that it was possible to open URLs from screenshots of text that contained URL data. This seems like an attractive function for me, as some sites I ...
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How can I copy GPS information from one iPhone photo to another?
I have a large number of photos on my iPhone that were taken at an event, but only some of them have GPS information. The ones missing the information were airdropped to me by other attendees without ...
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External Hard Drive Permissions Stuck in "Fetching" After Migration
After a migration, I'm having great difficulty working with or even accessing many of the .NEF (Raw Nikon photo files) within a larger Adobe Lightroom folder on one of my external hard drives. The ...
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How to move photos from one album to another to tidy up ones organization
Within Photos, how to move a set of photos from one album
to another one to change my library organization, without duplicating their names?
Like you can move a file within the filesystem from one ...
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Can photo sync be as effortless as music sync, between macOS and iOS?
To copy photos from iOS (and make space for more photos) one connects the device (iPhone or iPad) with a cable to the Mac and opens Photos, then imports.
But with music things "just work" ...
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My Photo Stream is shutting down July 26, 2023, do I need to do anything if I have never intentionally used it?
Apple has announced that My Photo Stream is shutting down. I don't think I have ever used this feature, but I don't know if that is because this is some fundamental feature that is obfuscated. Maybe ...
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How to transfer 3000+ items from iPhone hidden album to mac?
I have about 3700 items in my iPhone hidden album. How can I transfer all of them from my iPhone to my MacBook? They are all backed up on iCloud. If I try to download them on my Mac from iCloud, it ...
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iPhone imported photos unable to add to icloud photos library nor export
I have an iPhone 11 with around 3k photos, and another ~2k photos which were imported from old iPhone 6. I started running out of storage, therefore I wanted to turn on iCloud photos, but it asks if ...
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How can I convert a RAW (DNG) photo to a JPG on my iPhone?
I have an iPhone 14 Pro. There are some photos that were taken in RAW (DNG) format. I want those photos to be in JPG format. I have the Photos app's "Transfer to Mac or PC" setting on "...
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Where is "Set as Desktop Pitcures" button in share menu of Photo app?
From some time i can't set my photos as wallpaper. There isn't the option in sharing menu
English:
Shared Albums
Mail
Message
AirDrop
Notes
Reminder
Simulator
Shortcuts
[] Edit Extensions...
macOS ...
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Retrieve iPhone lock screen wallpaper photo
Many years and several iPhones ago, I took a nice picture with my iPhone and set it as my lock screen wallpaper. That lock screen wallpaper has been propagated as I've gotten new iPhones, but the ...
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Is iCloud Photos a backup of my photo library?
I was reading up on iCloud Photos on Apple's website and felt slightly confused.
From my understanding when enabling iCloud Photos on my iPhone, all my photos would be uploaded to iCloud using my ...
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Where does Mac store photos that show up as suggestions for AppleID profile photos (Ventura 13.3.1)?
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This is driving me nuts!
Where does Mac store photos that show up as suggestions for AppleID profile photo (photo on the top-right of the attached screenshot)?
I am running the latest macOS - ...
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Can a specific album be chosen ~prior to capturing~ photos on an iPhone or iPad?
Background
On mobile devices running iOS / iPadOS (back to at ~least~ versions 11.x):
Photos taken by the built-in Camera app go directly to the Photos Library (formerly known as Camera Roll)
When ...
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iPhone Photos Info ToolBar Separate Pop-Up Window
I have the following issue: I know how to view info on a certain file in Photos via (i) Info ToolBar. It shows the date the file was created, one can add caption etc. However, once this window ...
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