crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

I want to share something I learned by trial and error today although I may be the last one here to figure it out.
I connected my iPhone 7, updated to the latest ios, to my PC in order to download several photos. The iPhone shows up in Windows Explorer and I can see the photos - Apple iPhone/internal storage/DCIM/folders by date.
Opened LR Classic (latest upgrade) and the iPhone showed up as a source in the import process. So, it's possible to do an import just like one does from, say, a SD card. I have too many photos on the phone so finding what I wanted was going to be a very long process. I went back to Explorer and copied the photos I wanted from their iPhone folder to a new folder in Desktop. I could see the folder in LR and chose it as the source, selected Move to copy the images to their permanent location on a hard drive. The images are JPG which is OK for phone photos. I cropped one, did some minimal processing - so far.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I wasn't aware of it. So you are not the last to figure it out. LOL. Thank you for sharing that info!

Question: you say above "Move to copy the images". ?? I thought move would relocate the images in the new location. That is different from copying which would leave the images in place and create new versions in the new location. Correct?

I have been looking for an easy way to move (remove) images from the iPHONE. Moving them off the phone to another location accomplishes the same thing, so maybe I can use LR for this and that will be a great help.

crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

I did Move from a Desktop folder which is on C:/ to my photos hard drive. LR will copy from the iPhone to a hard drive but will Add from an existing folder in C:/. I hope I'm clear about that.

crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

You can copy/move directly from the iPhone to a hard drive. I would have done that if it was easier locating the images I wanted to copy.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Thanks!

tcthome Loc: NJ

If you don't let it get out of hand as far as the amount of photos, you can just email them to yourself & they show up as jpegs in your email. An extra step or 2 of coarse, because you still have to import them into LR. Do it at home through your wifi if you don't have a unlimited data program. Anyway, thanks for the info.

crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

Thanks for the suggestion. I really, really need to weed-out my iPhone images as everything I get is saved there.

DBQ49er Loc: Dubuque, IA

Depending on your model of Iphone and the computer that you are using you may need an USB 3. male adapter to fit the USB-C connector that is on the phone charger cable. Not sure about Iphone 7,8,9 cables.
Larry

crphoto8 Loc: Anaheim, California

Right. I have a 7plus so didn't need an adapter.