JHZR2
Staff member
I have a 1TB iphone 15 pro, love it. I run a MBP from 2013, 11.7.10
I use my iphone camera a lot. I like to pull the photos off of it onto an external HDD.
Until maybe six months ago, Id just connect the phone to the computer, and use image capture to pull the latest photos off. I use my iphone for kids, cars, etc., so I take a decent number of photos. Any more, image capture will not load my camera roll (it wasnt working on my older iphone 12Pro either, so its not a matter of the new phone). I have well over 50k images and videos, I guess it has hit its limit.
Some of it Im sure is that my old computer, which works perfectly, only has USB A ports. I would theorize that USB C ports would allow more data to transfer faster, and help this whole thing... Maybe.
The workaround Ive found is to get a USB C flash drive, which I can write the files to from my phone.
But it is SLLOOOOOOWWWW. For an iphone to a USB C flash drive, Id bet its only moving photos at a rate of 1-2 MB/s. So when I have a backlog of a few thousand photos from a period of time, its next to impossible to get them off. I think they may also only write when the phone is unlocked. This is a BIG step backwards.
Lots of folks all over have similar issues with image capture. I cant tell if there is a similar third party SW to use (anyone know of any that will access the iphone camera roll?). I dont want to use something like photos that puts it in a big database.
But my real ask is, whats the deal with it being so slow? Like I just tried to move 286 photos, and it took ten minutes. Some were videos, sure. But it was slow. And is there a way to speed it up?
Very frustrated with this...
I use my iphone camera a lot. I like to pull the photos off of it onto an external HDD.
Until maybe six months ago, Id just connect the phone to the computer, and use image capture to pull the latest photos off. I use my iphone for kids, cars, etc., so I take a decent number of photos. Any more, image capture will not load my camera roll (it wasnt working on my older iphone 12Pro either, so its not a matter of the new phone). I have well over 50k images and videos, I guess it has hit its limit.
Some of it Im sure is that my old computer, which works perfectly, only has USB A ports. I would theorize that USB C ports would allow more data to transfer faster, and help this whole thing... Maybe.
The workaround Ive found is to get a USB C flash drive, which I can write the files to from my phone.
But it is SLLOOOOOOWWWW. For an iphone to a USB C flash drive, Id bet its only moving photos at a rate of 1-2 MB/s. So when I have a backlog of a few thousand photos from a period of time, its next to impossible to get them off. I think they may also only write when the phone is unlocked. This is a BIG step backwards.
Lots of folks all over have similar issues with image capture. I cant tell if there is a similar third party SW to use (anyone know of any that will access the iphone camera roll?). I dont want to use something like photos that puts it in a big database.
But my real ask is, whats the deal with it being so slow? Like I just tried to move 286 photos, and it took ten minutes. Some were videos, sure. But it was slow. And is there a way to speed it up?
Very frustrated with this...