I tell all my mac user friends about your TH-cam channel....It is the most useful, easy to understand channel on how to use our Macs than all the others. Straight to the point, clear examples, several solutions to each issue.....Keep up the great work Gary!
Thanks for showing these options, I have just been dragging and dropping Really like these type of videos, so many options in the Mac I never knew were available
Great info on exporting. Deleting after exporting can be useful (in my case photos for work), if only there were a way to remember what you just exported. I wish a tag showed which photos were exported and when. Unless you think of something, perhaps it should be a feature request (File Export History Tag).
Thank you. Very well explained. You didn’t show it but I assume the HEIF file types are maintained as well. What happens if you use the new RAW type supported on the iPhone? Take care.
As always a great video! What I am still missing in Apple Photos is an easy way to move photos from one library to another, including all edits. So e.g. when i want to move images from my system library to an archive library. You can create a second library file, but a simple drag and drop or a move function is not available.
Yes, it works best with one library. Even if you could copy photos with edits over, you'd still have to switch libraries all the time when searching for a photo, and then making albums with photos over multiple libraries would be impossible. Is there a good reason why you have split your photos between multiple libraries?
@@macmost thanks Gary. The reason is that my wife likes to store RAW files from a camera too and that is hundreds of gigabytes if not a terabyte of data on top of the already 1 terabyte she has. Too much for our icloud and device storage. Am looking at Photomator as a go in between, but don’t want to complicate things further.
Thank you Gary, this was great! Another of your great videos! I am finally beginning to understand what a library is. Your comment about viewing the library as a file system on its own is probably the best way to see it. What about the other libraries on the Mac, for example, the music library? Is it the same kind of "file system on its own"?
So you only have an iPhone, not computer to transfer the data to, and don't want to use iCloud. You would I guess just do a simple export then. See support.apple.com/guide/iphone/import-and-export-photos-and-videos-iph480caa1f3
I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it, but exporting unmodified original also lets you export Live Photos. I haven’t done it in a while, I believe it will make two files. An HEIC photo and a MOV video.
Very useful. Now I know how to get photos permanently out of my library. One of the bothersome things is having iPhone photos or photos sent in Messenger show up on my iMac. I assume that if I have iCloud turned on anything I delete on my computer will also be deleted from my phone. It is so annoying how Apple assumes one wants everything available everywhere always. I prefer to have libraries discrete from each other, saved on their own device.
This is really useful thanks. Could you tell me if there is any advantage/disadvantage of exporting the file as a TIFF image over a JPG? And is there a difference if you took the original in RAW or JPG? Thanks 🙏🏻
TIFF is a lossless format, so you get huge files but perfect quality. But only if the original was a TIFF, or a non-compressed PNG, or RAW (though you don't get RAW, you get the adjustments applied). So it only makes sense to use TIFF in those cases. If the images are HEIF or JPEG already, it never makes sense to go to TIFF and you can't get the quality back that you lost previously. As for RAW vs JPEG that is a huge topic. Read up on what RAW is and how it works. Lots to learn there.
Hello Gary, the one significant flaw in this process is that the file date of the exported file is based on the time and date one does the export. The real data as you pointed out is hidden in the exif data which means you cannot then sort or organize your images by the original date the image was taken. Is there a tool that fixes this?
Exporting a new copy, yes, the file creation date is the file creation date. There's no easy way to change it, but if you really want to: th-cam.com/video/b33ir6FZMlY/w-d-xo.html
If you use Lightroom to edit it does retain the date the picture was taken, but I am not sure it does this if you drag and drop, only if you export from the Photos App. This is useful if you are on holiday for example and you take pics with a camera and your iPhone. If you then want to merge all your pics in one folder in chronological order, exporting from photos retains the date the picture was taken.
Could you do a video on how to backup the iCloud Photos library on an external drive or with another backup service like backblaze? Just in case Apple’s iCloud servers ever die, that way I have a real backup up!
Hey Gary. Great video and info. I wonder , all these apply also when you connect an iPhone to Mac and then you open iPhone's Library with Mac Photos app? Thanks
So i can actually transfer iphone photos to hard disk folders and after that, delete them from I phone through iMac’s Photos App. Correct? Forgive me if i ask very simple things but i recently switched from pc to iMac
@@takalfak The easy way is to just use iCloud Photos on both devices and they will always be in sync. Otherwise, you'd always need to connect, download and sync back to your iPhone the way it was done 10+ years ago. A lot more work.
What about the big photo library file locally stored on the filesystem? It's pretty huge. Does it contain all the photos or just the photos which are opened in the Photo app?
If you are using iCloud Photos, it either has all of your photos, or the most recently viewed ones. There is an "Optimize" setting in Photos, Settings, iCloud.
Another aspect of this is if I want to send the photo to a processing center to have an 8X10 or larger print made for framing. How should I export it then?
Hey Gary: Can you comment on the purpose of jpeg extension? Near the end, I noticed the extension of the modified one saved to the desktop as jpeg while the original was jpg. The file names were identical, and were able to be on the desktop simultaneously given their different extensions.
@@macmost The Export option changes the extension and saves it as a jpeg, while the Export Unmodified option keeps/saves it as a jpg. So when you do both options, you get one of each extension. Was that Apple's intent, as a way to distinguish the Exports? (And yes, I know they are interchangeable.)
@@Larry77777 The Export Unmodified will save out the exact file you imported into Photos. So if that has jpg, it will be jpg. But the other Export option creates a new file. That's the difference.
Depends on the device doing the recording. An iPhone will, of course, but if you are using a camera then that device needs GPS capability of some sort. Yes, you can store your library on an external drive, though it will slow down the Photos app and create problems if you sometimes don't have that drive connected.
Also, exporting a RAW file gives you a .DNG file. If you export as a TIFF, it is uncompressed and a much larger photo in terms of size as compared to the .DNG. So which is better to export as, a .DNG or a TIFF?
Photos will give you back the exact same file it got from your camera. If that was RAW, it will be RAW. If that as a DNG file (a type or RAW, correct?) then it will be that same DNG file. I don't know why you would export a TIFF instead, but it would be taking that RAW file and creating a TIFF from it. It wouldn't be RAW anymore.
I've decided to use photos to sort all of my photos from my camera but there's something I'm finding confusing. I shoot a jpeg and a raw of the same image in case I want to edit the raw. Photos is telling me there's a raw and jpeg of the same image but I can't see a way to separate the 2. For example, reviewing my images I'll want to delete a bunch of the raw files and keep some as jpegs then some I'll want to keep as raw for editing later but photos is just telling me there's a raw and a jpeg of the same image. Can someone please tell me if they know of a way to separate them. Even when I click on the raw tab that doesn't help
I have trust issues with Photo's / iPhoto . every major OS update makes importing old photos impossible . I have lost so many old family photos . Seems every time I go to import photos into the next OS, the old library is incompatible . can you make a video on that Gary ? please.
Not sure what you mean. If a new version of Photos comes out where the library needs to be updated, it does that automatically. My Photos library started as an iPhoto library with the very first version and has been updated when needed. There's nothing you need to do that I could show in a tutorial.
If you can teach me how to disable special characters e.g when you hit option + 2 it does the trademark symbol. I never need to use special characters and it prevents me from using those option + key combinations that I would like to use for shortcuts in some apps like indesign.
You can't. But that shouldn't get in the way of Indesign's keyboard shortcuts. Make sure you have that configured correctly in InDesign settings. Try Adobe support if you can't get it to work.
@@macmost If i'm within a text box and assign option+2 to move the cursor one character to the right for example, it's going to do it but also add the TM symbol which I dont want. Shame there's not a way to do it.
@@deedubs8975 So that's not the regular combination for it? Maybe just try another combo instead. But if it is, talk to Adobe Support. They would be the people to know.
Hey Gary I've just discovered something, nice little trick I think a lot of people don't know this ... everywhere you want to type a text, you can do this... HOLD for example "e" or "o" longer than you usual and look what happens .. you get several options / variations on "e" or "o" to choose from cool :p
Export them out of Photos, then delete them from the Photos app if that is really want you want to do. Will make it hard to find it later though, and build albums, slideshows, etc. Why not leave them in Photos and think of Photos AS your archive?
@@macmost true, I could do that. But I haven’t found a quick way to do it. I could use photos as my archive but I have 14,000+ photos and videos. I have 256GB of storage. So I’m good for now, but I wonder about filling it up eventually.
You can't get pixels where there are none. Well, there are some AI services that will try to do it, but they have to extrapolate on the photo from what is there.
When I exported unmodified originals, I noticed there was some extra files added in the folder I exported the photos to. I tried opening it but it was just some text. I think it said “aaa” something. What is it and does it affect the photos if I delete it?
@ I don’t remember. But I didn’t select to export XMP data. Also, I can’t open the HEIF files from iCloud website, but I can open them from my phone or computer. Do you think it has something to do with the files I deleted?
@@shmaoo1790 I don't know what you deleted, so I can't say. But an HEIF file is just an image file. What are you trying to do to "open" them (exactly) and what happens when you try?
@@macmost I go to iCloud Drive through web browser (I exported the photos to iCloud Drive), and when I click on a HEIF photo it says it can’t open it, but that I can try to download it and open it on my device instead.
@@shmaoo1790 Instead of iCloud.com, go to iCloud Drive on your Mac (or in the Files app on your iPhone or iPad) and look at it there. Are you just trying to verify that the file works? Or do something else?
I've been frustrated with photo and (especially) video export quality from the photos app, so I now ONLY use the "Export unmodified original", then re-edit the image/video in another dedicated photo or video editor.
I have trying to delete photos & videos from my iPhone synced to via my first ever MacBook 2013 and iPhone 5S. Now I use a MacBook Pro 2018 and iPhone 12 and can’t seem to get rid of these photos at all. How do I permanently delete some or all of these pictures?
I can't unravel that. You have two iPhones, and two Macs. Are you using iCloud Photos for all of them? Or are you syncing from one Mac (which one?) to both iPhones? It is very confusing. Maybe call Apple Support as you may have a lot of work to do and need some firsthand help.
@@macmost The MBP 2013 and the iPhone 5S were my first of Apple items. I gave them out long ago. I now have the MBP 2018, the iPad Air4 and the IPhone 12 all logged into iCloud. The issue is that the first ever set of pictures & video synced can no longer be deleted from photos to free storage on my iPhone.
@@la9753 You should be able to get rid of them by re-syncing that iPhone to your current Mac. Set up the photos syncing to what you want on the Mac, and then sync. Call Apple Support if you need a walk-through for that.
I have both photos and Google photos on my phone. Unfortunately, when I take a photo, it is stored in both the apps. When I delete the photo in google photos, it gets deleted in my photos app also. I want to delink both. Please help.
@@alainlachance5217 There is no Apple Photos app on Windows. So how could you have the same problem since this problem involves how Google Photos syncs with Apple Photos?
Gary I have a MacBook Air plus a Mac DVD player. I have about 80 dad's from India that I can't load and play. Can you make a video on how to allow these videos to play on my Mac . thank you. 🤔🙏
So you are using an external optical drive? And these are regular DVDs, like movies and TV shows? I believe those would be region-locked. DVD tech uses that. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Just by trying to export them, it should download them from the cloud if you are used "Optimized." But you an always view them to make sure they are downloaded first.
I'd like to add a comment about the Photo settings. In the Photo dialog box : General, the import checkbox "Copy items to the Photo Library" must be ticked. Otherwise Photo only stores thumbnails of the photos and if you remove the original of the photos (USB drive for example) or delete them, all you have are thumbnails and goodbye to the originals!
I probably know the answer (buy a Mac!), but since I used windows before I bought an iPhone I like to know following. How to export photos to windows including date/time stamp. The only thing I see is creating/exporting date. And next to this photos from iPhone send to me by my wife or children never have the original date or time included as well. In other words creating a video from all these photos in right order is a nightmare.
A normal export includes the time, but as metadata like it should. So it is a matter of using something on Windows that allows you to sort them by the metadata time, not the file creation date. So perhaps importing into a Photos management app, or some setting in Windows explorer (I'm the wrong guy to ask about the Windows side).
Not sure which app you are describing (Windows is an operating system, not a photo management app). And in Photos on a Mac you just drag-and-drop. Is that more difficult than copy and paste? Oh, and yes you can do copy and paste and that works with Photos/Finder on a Mac.
The iPhone and Mac photos applications are deliberately confusing and duplicitous to create hundreds of extra versions and copies of each photo. In doing so they expand the size of everyone’s photo gallery … then they sell you space to store your ginormous gallery of mostly duplicate photos. That’s exactly why they don’t allow discrete folders on either app.
@@carolinebarlow4795 You’re going to trust an app to tell you which photos are duplicates? Also please show me where on the iPhone app it shows “duplicates”.
What do you mean. The Photos app doesn't create extra versions of photos. If you have extra versions, then either you are misunderstanding what you are seeing, or you are doing something to create these. Hard to know what is going on without any details. But you shoudn't have any "extra versions" of photos.
@@macmost as a previous PC user I think i know what he means. Coming from PC we had a “move” choice which would literally move the original photo from one folder to another. Apple instead uses terms as “export” which would lead someone to think they are moving the photo, when that’s not what’s happening. The original is still sitting in the Photos app and you have another copy wherever you “exported” the picture too. Apple bends over backwards to accommodate people who might accidentally delete photos, so what it does is not move but it makes a copy. This has always driven me crazy as well and I haven’t seen it addressed in any videos. Please make a video about how to easily literally move photos out of the Photos app.
@@frisco61 THIS is that video. It shows you exactly that. Twice I mention how if your intention is to not have that photo in your library anymore that you have to delete it. Not sure what is happening on Windows there, but it sounds like you are using an app that manages photo files, and doesn't have a separate library.
uggg your videos are so frustrating. you went right past WHERE to save it. my version 9.0 does not show WHERE to save it. I want it on the desktop & you totally skipped that!
Where you save it is up to you. If you want it on your Desktop, then put it on your Desktop. At 4:25 you can see the file save dialog. Use that to choose where to save it: Desktop, Documents, somewhere else. It is up to you. You can navigate around in the file save dialog to find the location you want. See th-cam.com/video/3U63olnmDRw/w-d-xo.html for some tips.
What are you talking about? Photos has a standard part of macOS. It was introduced in 2013 as a replacement for iPhoto and has been improved with new versions each year since. New features coming in macOS Sequoia too.
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I tell all my mac user friends about your TH-cam channel....It is the most useful, easy to understand channel on how to use our Macs than all the others. Straight to the point, clear examples, several solutions to each issue.....Keep up the great work Gary!
I’ve been a Mac user since the all in one Mac. I still learn stuff from Gary, thanks and keep up the good work.
Another excellent video with expert dialogue. You are absolutely amazing!
Thanks for showing these options, I have just been dragging and dropping
Really like these type of videos, so many options in the Mac I never knew were available
I definitely second the enthusiastic comments below! Exactly what I wanted to learn, explained with total clarity. I’m now a subscriber…and a fan!
Another good one Gary. Very useful. Thanks.
Excellent tutorial. As usual with your videos, I learned new features and tricks about a topic I had thought I understood well. Many thanks!
Great info on exporting.
Deleting after exporting can be useful (in my case photos for work), if only there were a way to remember what you just exported. I wish a tag showed which photos were exported and when. Unless you think of something, perhaps it should be a feature request (File Export History Tag).
You could always tag the selected photos first, then export. Or, select photos, export, then delete while they are still selected.
Thanks very much, Gary, for this informative video! Very useful to know exactly how to export Photos.
Thank you, Gary!
Always a useful video. Thanks Gary!
Thanks, Gary. That answers my question from your previous video. I didnt know you could just drag the photos out. Seems kinda obvious now! Thanks :)
Great! Thanks for your info and tips. Cheers Gary
Thank you. Very well explained. You didn’t show it but I assume the HEIF file types are maintained as well. What happens if you use the new RAW type supported on the iPhone? Take care.
If you export "Unmodified Originals" you get back the exact file that was originally added to photos, whether it is jpeg, HEIF, RAW, etc.
Thank you Gary. Most useful.
As always a great video!
What I am still missing in Apple Photos is an easy way to move photos from one library to another, including all edits. So e.g. when i want to move images from my system library to an archive library. You can create a second library file, but a simple drag and drop or a move function is not available.
Yes, it works best with one library. Even if you could copy photos with edits over, you'd still have to switch libraries all the time when searching for a photo, and then making albums with photos over multiple libraries would be impossible. Is there a good reason why you have split your photos between multiple libraries?
@@macmost thanks Gary. The reason is that my wife likes to store RAW files from a camera too and that is hundreds of gigabytes if not a terabyte of data on top of the already 1 terabyte she has. Too much for our icloud and device storage. Am looking at Photomator as a go in between, but don’t want to complicate things further.
Thank you Gary, this was great! Another of your great videos! I am finally beginning to understand what a library is. Your comment about viewing the library as a file system on its own is probably the best way to see it. What about the other libraries on the Mac, for example, the music library? Is it the same kind of "file system on its own"?
Yes.
Thanks Gary. Do you have a video for iphone only users who want to backup their iphone photos directly to an external usb c ssd, without using icloud?
THIS!
So you only have an iPhone, not computer to transfer the data to, and don't want to use iCloud. You would I guess just do a simple export then. See support.apple.com/guide/iphone/import-and-export-photos-and-videos-iph480caa1f3
@@macmost Cheers Gary.
Interesting, I have always just selected the files I want and dragged them to the desktop!
I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it, but exporting unmodified original also lets you export Live Photos. I haven’t done it in a while, I believe it will make two files. An HEIC photo and a MOV video.
Thank you for the informative video
Awesome! Thanks Gary. Subscribed!
Thank you, Gary!💗
Thank you for your excellent video. What is the benefit of moving selected photos/videos to the Media Type, Pictures?
Not sure what you mean. Media Type?
Excellent. Thank you!
This is life changing, thank you 🙏
Very useful. Now I know how to get photos permanently out of my library. One of the bothersome things is having iPhone photos or photos sent in Messenger show up on my iMac. I assume that if I have iCloud turned on anything I delete on my computer will also be deleted from my phone. It is so annoying how Apple assumes one wants everything available everywhere always. I prefer to have libraries discrete from each other, saved on their own device.
This is really useful thanks. Could you tell me if there is any advantage/disadvantage of exporting the file as a TIFF image over a JPG? And is there a difference if you took the original in RAW or JPG? Thanks 🙏🏻
TIFF is a lossless format, so you get huge files but perfect quality. But only if the original was a TIFF, or a non-compressed PNG, or RAW (though you don't get RAW, you get the adjustments applied). So it only makes sense to use TIFF in those cases. If the images are HEIF or JPEG already, it never makes sense to go to TIFF and you can't get the quality back that you lost previously. As for RAW vs JPEG that is a huge topic. Read up on what RAW is and how it works. Lots to learn there.
Hello Gary, the one significant flaw in this process is that the file date of the exported file is based on the time and date one does the export. The real data as you pointed out is hidden in the exif data which means you cannot then sort or organize your images by the original date the image was taken. Is there a tool that fixes this?
Exporting a new copy, yes, the file creation date is the file creation date. There's no easy way to change it, but if you really want to: th-cam.com/video/b33ir6FZMlY/w-d-xo.html
If you use Lightroom to edit it does retain the date the picture was taken, but I am not sure it does this if you drag and drop, only if you export from the Photos App. This is useful if you are on holiday for example and you take pics with a camera and your iPhone. If you then want to merge all your pics in one folder in chronological order, exporting from photos retains the date the picture was taken.
Could you do a video on how to backup the iCloud Photos library on an external drive or with another backup service like backblaze? Just in case Apple’s iCloud servers ever die, that way I have a real backup up!
If you have "Optimized" turned off, then your complete library is on your Mac. Any online backup would then get the whole library.
Hey Gary. Great video and info. I wonder , all these apply also when you connect an iPhone to Mac and then you open iPhone's Library with Mac Photos app? Thanks
Do you mean to load your iPhone's new photos to your Mac's Photos library? Once they are in your Mac's library you can use these, yes.
So i can actually transfer iphone photos to hard disk folders and after that, delete them from I phone through iMac’s Photos App. Correct? Forgive me if i ask very simple things but i recently switched from pc to iMac
@@takalfak The easy way is to just use iCloud Photos on both devices and they will always be in sync. Otherwise, you'd always need to connect, download and sync back to your iPhone the way it was done 10+ years ago. A lot more work.
Thank you so much for the info.
What about the big photo library file locally stored on the filesystem? It's pretty huge. Does it contain all the photos or just the photos which are opened in the Photo app?
If you are using iCloud Photos, it either has all of your photos, or the most recently viewed ones. There is an "Optimize" setting in Photos, Settings, iCloud.
Thank you
Useful. Is the process different for RAW files?
No, the "Unmodified Original" would be the RAW file.
@@macmost see my next comment please 🙏
Another aspect of this is if I want to send the photo to a processing center to have an 8X10 or larger print made for framing. How should I export it then?
Edit the Photo and crop to 8x10. Make any other changes you want as well. Then export as full size, maximum quality, jpeg.
@@macmost Thank You
Hey Gary: Can you comment on the purpose of jpeg extension? Near the end, I noticed the extension of the modified one saved to the desktop as jpeg while the original was jpg. The file names were identical, and were able to be on the desktop simultaneously given their different extensions.
They are interchangeable.
@@macmost The Export option changes the extension and saves it as a jpeg, while the Export Unmodified option keeps/saves it as a jpg. So when you do both options, you get one of each extension. Was that Apple's intent, as a way to distinguish the Exports? (And yes, I know they are interchangeable.)
@@Larry77777 The Export Unmodified will save out the exact file you imported into Photos. So if that has jpg, it will be jpg. But the other Export option creates a new file. That's the difference.
I think Photos is just as good as Aperture was, these days. I still have Aperture on an older Mac, but; rarely use it anymore. Photos works for me.
Need an equivalent video for iPhone / iPad. 🎉
Is GPS data also recorded on videos? Can I keep my photo library on an external drive?
Depends on the device doing the recording. An iPhone will, of course, but if you are using a camera then that device needs GPS capability of some sort. Yes, you can store your library on an external drive, though it will slow down the Photos app and create problems if you sometimes don't have that drive connected.
well done
What if you have optimized storage active for your iCloud foto library?
What are you referring to in the video? I show several techniques. Most (all?) will work the same whether you are using "optimized" or not.
Also, exporting a RAW file gives you a .DNG file. If you export as a TIFF, it is uncompressed and a much larger photo in terms of size as compared to the .DNG. So which is better to export as, a .DNG or a TIFF?
Photos will give you back the exact same file it got from your camera. If that was RAW, it will be RAW. If that as a DNG file (a type or RAW, correct?) then it will be that same DNG file. I don't know why you would export a TIFF instead, but it would be taking that RAW file and creating a TIFF from it. It wouldn't be RAW anymore.
I've decided to use photos to sort all of my photos from my camera but there's something I'm finding confusing. I shoot a jpeg and a raw of the same image in case I want to edit the raw. Photos is telling me there's a raw and jpeg of the same image but I can't see a way to separate the 2. For example, reviewing my images I'll want to delete a bunch of the raw files and keep some as jpegs then some I'll want to keep as raw for editing later but photos is just telling me there's a raw and a jpeg of the same image. Can someone please tell me if they know of a way to separate them. Even when I click on the raw tab that doesn't help
You'll need to look closely and experiment. I don't have any example photos that are like that so I can't try it for myself to see.
I have trust issues with Photo's / iPhoto . every major OS update makes importing old photos impossible . I have lost so many old family photos .
Seems every time I go to import photos into the next OS, the old library is incompatible . can you make a video on that Gary ? please.
Not sure what you mean. If a new version of Photos comes out where the library needs to be updated, it does that automatically. My Photos library started as an iPhoto library with the very first version and has been updated when needed. There's nothing you need to do that I could show in a tutorial.
If you can teach me how to disable special characters e.g when you hit option + 2 it does the trademark symbol. I never need to use special characters and it prevents me from using those option + key combinations that I would like to use for shortcuts in some apps like indesign.
You can't. But that shouldn't get in the way of Indesign's keyboard shortcuts. Make sure you have that configured correctly in InDesign settings. Try Adobe support if you can't get it to work.
@@macmost If i'm within a text box and assign option+2 to move the cursor one character to the right for example, it's going to do it but also add the TM symbol which I dont want. Shame there's not a way to do it.
@@deedubs8975 So that's not the regular combination for it? Maybe just try another combo instead. But if it is, talk to Adobe Support. They would be the people to know.
Hey Gary
I've just discovered something, nice little trick
I think a lot of people don't know this ...
everywhere you want to type a text, you can do this...
HOLD for example "e" or "o" longer than you usual
and look what happens .. you get several options / variations on "e" or "o"
to choose from
cool :p
See th-cam.com/video/vEl2zII-Pzs/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost
oh wow
thank you !
Thanks for sharing. Now how do we get photos off of our iPhones but archive them??
Export them out of Photos, then delete them from the Photos app if that is really want you want to do. Will make it hard to find it later though, and build albums, slideshows, etc. Why not leave them in Photos and think of Photos AS your archive?
@@macmost true, I could do that. But I haven’t found a quick way to do it. I could use photos as my archive but I have 14,000+ photos and videos. I have 256GB of storage. So I’m good for now, but I wonder about filling it up eventually.
@@f8c3themusic Maybe consider storing only your videos elsewhere? That's what I do. They take up much more space. But it depends on how you use video.
@@macmost I’ll give that a try. Thanks for the tips!
Is there a way to edit and clear up photos that are really pixelated
You can't get pixels where there are none. Well, there are some AI services that will try to do it, but they have to extrapolate on the photo from what is there.
When I exported unmodified originals, I noticed there was some extra files added in the folder I exported the photos to. I tried opening it but it was just some text. I think it said “aaa” something. What is it and does it affect the photos if I delete it?
I don't know what they would be. What were the exact full file names? Perhaps you just selected to export XMP data, which is for pro use.
@ I don’t remember. But I didn’t select to export XMP data. Also, I can’t open the HEIF files from iCloud website, but I can open them from my phone or computer. Do you think it has something to do with the files I deleted?
@@shmaoo1790 I don't know what you deleted, so I can't say. But an HEIF file is just an image file. What are you trying to do to "open" them (exactly) and what happens when you try?
@@macmost I go to iCloud Drive through web browser (I exported the photos to iCloud Drive), and when I click on a HEIF photo it says it can’t open it, but that I can try to download it and open it on my device instead.
@@shmaoo1790 Instead of iCloud.com, go to iCloud Drive on your Mac (or in the Files app on your iPhone or iPad) and look at it there. Are you just trying to verify that the file works? Or do something else?
I've been frustrated with photo and (especially) video export quality from the photos app, so I now ONLY use the "Export unmodified original", then re-edit the image/video in another dedicated photo or video editor.
I have trying to delete photos & videos from my iPhone synced to via my first ever MacBook 2013 and iPhone 5S. Now I use a MacBook Pro 2018 and iPhone 12 and can’t seem to get rid of these photos at all. How do I permanently delete some or all of these pictures?
I can't unravel that. You have two iPhones, and two Macs. Are you using iCloud Photos for all of them? Or are you syncing from one Mac (which one?) to both iPhones? It is very confusing. Maybe call Apple Support as you may have a lot of work to do and need some firsthand help.
@@macmost The MBP 2013 and the iPhone 5S were my first of Apple items. I gave them out long ago. I now have the MBP 2018, the iPad Air4 and the IPhone 12 all logged into iCloud.
The issue is that the first ever set of pictures & video synced can no longer be deleted from photos to free storage on my iPhone.
@@la9753 You should be able to get rid of them by re-syncing that iPhone to your current Mac. Set up the photos syncing to what you want on the Mac, and then sync. Call Apple Support if you need a walk-through for that.
I have both photos and Google photos on my phone. Unfortunately, when I take a photo, it is stored in both the apps. When I delete the photo in google photos, it gets deleted in my photos app also. I want to delink both. Please help.
You'll need to stop using the function in Google Photos that syncs them. Not sure of the details as I don't use Google Photos.
Beaucoup de gens se pose la même question que vous. Sur un pc vous n’avez pas ce problème.
@@alainlachance5217 There is no Apple Photos app on Windows. So how could you have the same problem since this problem involves how Google Photos syncs with Apple Photos?
I had the same issue as soon as I started to use Google Photos and immediately stopped. How they get away with that only ABC knows.
Gary I have a MacBook Air plus a Mac DVD player. I have about 80 dad's from India that I can't load and play. Can you make a video on how to allow these videos to play on my Mac . thank you. 🤔🙏
So you are using an external optical drive? And these are regular DVDs, like movies and TV shows? I believe those would be region-locked. DVD tech uses that. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Are you working on the iPhone itself or have you found a way to access the photo library via a laptop?
I don't know what you are asking here. This is a video about using the Photos app on the Mac, not iPhone.
@@macmost , my mistake….
how to export the entire icloud photo library to another platform?
See th-cam.com/video/5IvSPjs0GSM/w-d-xo.html
Okay, what if photos won’t let me add images (screen shots, etc.) to a folder I created because they’re “in the cloud?”
Just by trying to export them, it should download them from the cloud if you are used "Optimized." But you an always view them to make sure they are downloaded first.
I'd like to add a comment about the Photo settings.
In the Photo dialog box : General, the import checkbox "Copy items to the Photo Library" must be ticked.
Otherwise Photo only stores thumbnails of the photos and if you remove the original of the photos (USB drive for example) or delete them, all you have are thumbnails and goodbye to the originals!
Yes. The default is checked.
I probably know the answer (buy a Mac!), but since I used windows before I bought an iPhone I like to know following. How to export photos to windows including date/time stamp. The only thing I see is creating/exporting date. And next to this photos from iPhone send to me by my wife or children never have the original date or time included as well. In other words creating a video from all these photos in right order is a nightmare.
A normal export includes the time, but as metadata like it should. So it is a matter of using something on Windows that allows you to sort them by the metadata time, not the file creation date. So perhaps importing into a Photos management app, or some setting in Windows explorer (I'm the wrong guy to ask about the Windows side).
Wow. Windows, right click, copy. Go to where you want pboto right click save. Done. Android same way.
Not sure which app you are describing (Windows is an operating system, not a photo management app). And in Photos on a Mac you just drag-and-drop. Is that more difficult than copy and paste? Oh, and yes you can do copy and paste and that works with Photos/Finder on a Mac.
The iPhone and Mac photos applications are deliberately confusing and duplicitous to create hundreds of extra versions and copies of each photo. In doing so they expand the size of everyone’s photo gallery … then they sell you space to store your ginormous gallery of mostly duplicate photos. That’s exactly why they don’t allow discrete folders on either app.
Apple actually help you eliminate duplicates by having a separate folder showing them!
@@carolinebarlow4795 You’re going to trust an app to tell you which photos are duplicates? Also please show me where on the iPhone app it shows “duplicates”.
What do you mean. The Photos app doesn't create extra versions of photos. If you have extra versions, then either you are misunderstanding what you are seeing, or you are doing something to create these. Hard to know what is going on without any details. But you shoudn't have any "extra versions" of photos.
@@macmost as a previous PC user I think i know what he means. Coming from PC we had a “move” choice which would literally move the original photo from one folder to another. Apple instead uses terms as “export” which would lead someone to think they are moving the photo, when that’s not what’s happening. The original is still sitting in the Photos app and you have another copy wherever you “exported” the picture too. Apple bends over backwards to accommodate people who might accidentally delete photos, so what it does is not move but it makes a copy. This has always driven me crazy as well and I haven’t seen it addressed in any videos.
Please make a video about how to easily literally move photos out of the Photos app.
@@frisco61 THIS is that video. It shows you exactly that. Twice I mention how if your intention is to not have that photo in your library anymore that you have to delete it. Not sure what is happening on Windows there, but it sounds like you are using an app that manages photo files, and doesn't have a separate library.
Seriously? It's called "File -> Export." Duh.
uggg your videos are so frustrating. you went right past WHERE to save it. my version 9.0 does not show WHERE to save it. I want it on the desktop & you totally skipped that!
Where you save it is up to you. If you want it on your Desktop, then put it on your Desktop. At 4:25 you can see the file save dialog. Use that to choose where to save it: Desktop, Documents, somewhere else. It is up to you. You can navigate around in the file save dialog to find the location you want. See th-cam.com/video/3U63olnmDRw/w-d-xo.html for some tips.
Apple (Mac) has not used the "Photos" program for over 5 years. this is dated.
What are you talking about? Photos has a standard part of macOS. It was introduced in 2013 as a replacement for iPhoto and has been improved with new versions each year since. New features coming in macOS Sequoia too.
Overly long.
I show 3 different techniques. Should I have shown only 2? Or 1? What if the one I left out was the better option for someone?
"...isn't there an easier way to do this?" he says. Yes, Get a PC. This is ridiculous.
I show you a bunch of different ways to export photos, and some are very simple. How is drag and drop "ridiculous?" Or a File, Export?
What is easier than drag and drop? Tell me more...
Really useful. Thanks!