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Fast and easy way to transfer photos from iphone to mac?
If you don't want to download other software, you can use the built-in Photos.app on macOS to bulk transfer photos from iPhone to Mac. After connecting your iPhone with USB, you can import photos and videos from iPhone to Mac through an intuitive graphical interface and clicking operation, and then automatically organize them and store them in the Mac photo library, and it's the first choice of built-in tool for transferring iPhone photos. It works with all macOS versions and is the preferred built-in tool for transferring iPhone photos.
To transfer photos from iPhone to Mac, please make sure your iPhone is unlocked and running the latest version of iOS (or at least iOS 12), and your Mac is running macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or later.
The Photos.app, in which you can choose to import all photos and videos on iPhone or selectively, after importing, you can manage photos in "Photos" or "Recent Import" tab, follow the prompts to choose whether to delete the imported items on iPhone or not, and you can also right-click the photos to check the storage location in Photos.app. You can also right-click photos in Photos.app to see where they are stored, then verify the transfer in Photos.app and Finder, and finally disconnect the Lightning cable safely by clicking the eject button next to the iPhone icon on the left sidebar of Photos.app.
In short, the Photos.app has a modern interface, intuitive point-and-click operation, high stability as a built-in macOS software that requires no installation and easy to get started for newbies, although photos stored in the Photos library need to be manually exported to other folders, it is easy to operate. However, the transfer speed is quite slow when comparing to other apps. If you want to a fast way to transfer iphone photos to Mac, then you can try other methods instead.