Feed
 

Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Michael Corgan
Trying to download holiday photos from my iPhone SE, running iOS 12.2,the only images showing are three sent to me by friends. Image Capture shows that these are on iCloud. All the other photos on my phone are not on iCloud. How do I access them so that I can then download them (as I have done previously)?

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Roy Rainford
Settings - Photos - Upload to MY Photo Stream
Might be the answer but not sure Michael.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Mick Burrell
If Roy hasn't cracked it, I'll need more information:

''the only images showing are three sent to me by friends.''

You only have three photos on your phone?

''All the other photos on my phone''

No, you obviously have more than three! Could you explain?

''download them (as I have done previously)''

How did you previously download them?

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Michael Corgan
Sorry for the imorecision. Yes, all the photos that I took on holiday (and a whole load more) can be viewed on my phone. Previously I have simply plugged the pone in to the iMac and Image Capture did the rest - though I did have yto select the folder in which the photos were to be stored. I have not knowingly activated iCloud for Photos.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Have a look in the Photos app on the Mac. If your missing photos are there, that may be why you aren’t being invited to import them again.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Mick Burrell
Does Image Capture normally load by default when the phone is plugged in? If so, have you tried running it manually to see if it can see your phone?

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Roy Rainford
Using iCloud in the Photos app on my iMac works well. All images taken on my iPhone SE automatically appear in the Photos app, according to date taken. I don't see any need to connect the iPhone to the iMac or to use Image Capture. I have the Photos app preferences ticked under iCloud.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Michael Corgan
The problem is that Image Capture can ONLY see four photos on my phone - a sudden increase - and these were sent to me by friends. It does not see the rest of the photos - a considerable number. Some of these have already been downloaded, and what I am trying to do is to download the most recent (from our recent holiday for the most part). I don't use iCloud for storage preferring to have image files on a hard drive (or two). The Image Capture app shows my iPhone, with the iCloud icon alngside it. Opening Photos on the iMac shows 12 photos, 1 from May 2014, 6 from August 2017, 1 from November 2017, all of which are mine and have already been downloaded, and then the four from friends.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Michael Corgan
Apple retains its mysterious ways. Going for one last try, I plugged my iPhone into the iMac, Image Capture dutifully launched and 'Voila"! All my photos showed and have been hastily imported to the iMac before Apple changed their
minds. One more mystery without an explanation?

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Mick Burrell
I think you forgot to plug it in ;-)

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Lionel Ogden
Maybe your connection lead is becoming faulty. It does happen.

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Michael Corgan
Thinking about Lionel's suggestion, I can't see how a faulty connection would result in only showing some of the photos on the iPhone. Presumably it would be all or nothing?

Re: Invisible photos on iPhone

Avatar Tony Still
In response to Michael's question about Lionel's suggestion, the answer is 'maybe'.

In the face of an intermittent fault in the connection, IC has to use a recovery strategy. We can only observe its behaviour: you may have characterised it as:

'If the connection fails, give up and destroy all evidence of having tried'.
 
Feed