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Fast and easy way to transfer photos from iphone to mac?
OpenShot interface is intuitive and powerful, the speed of importing photos is moderate, its batch renaming and metadata management features can save time, multi-language support is good, completely local and high stability. Compared with other iphone transfer software, it provides more management options, but the first time users need to familiarize themselves with the interface for the first time in order to transfer photos from iphone to Mac and this is suitable for batch organizing the needs of users. You can give it a try if other methods did not work.
Prepare to connect your iPhone
1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac with an MFi-certified Lightning cable.
2. iPhone prompts Trust this computer, tap Trust and enter your password.
3. The Mac prompts to allow the accessory to connect, tap Allow.
Import photos to OpenShot
1. Open Open OpenShot and tap File > Import File.
2. Select iPhone in the Finder window and go to the DCIM folder to pick photos or videos.
3. You can press Command key to select more than one, or Shift key to select consecutive ranges, tap Open when you are done, and the imported files will appear in the Project Files panel.
Organize the photos
1. Right-click a photo in the Project Files panel, select Properties, View/Change Metadata, Rename, and enter the name you want.
2. You can also tap Filter - Organize by Date or Organize by Name.
3. Right-click on multiple selected files to rename them and batch rename them according to the rules.
Save to Mac
1. Drag the photos you want to save to the Timeline.
2. Tap File>Export Video, in the pop-up window: select JPEG or MOV in All Formats.
3. Select the save folder on Mac; check Export selected files only, and finally tap Export to transfer iPhone photos to Mac automatically!