We use it for much more than our iCloud Photo Library, we also store everything on our Mac’s Desktop and Documents in the cloud so we have access to everything we are working on on all our devices.

We recommend paying a monthly fee for iCloud storage. You can get 5GB storage for free but it’s very unlikely that this would be enough for the purposes of storing photos in iCloud. There are actually a few ways to import images from your iPhone where you don’t need a wire. This process is similar to that above, except that you won’t need to confirm that you trust the device in the same way.

The photo(s) will now appear in your Imports view.

Click on the Import 1 (or more) Selected button at the top of the window to import the photos.

Alternatively use your mouse or touch pad draw a marquee around a collection of photos that are clustered together.

If you want to import a number of photos click on each photo while pressing the Command key and you will select just those photos.

You can either import all the new images, or just select the photos you want to import. (When we weren’t seeing any photos to import we took a photo with our iPhone camera and this seemed to jolt it into action pulling in thumbnails of our photos).

It might take a while for your photos to appear – especially if you have a lot of photos.

Just click on the dropdown menu beside Import to.

You will have the option to import any photos, you can choose to Import to your Library, a New Album, or any existing album.

If it wasn’t automatically selected, click on it.

Your phone (or camera) should appear in a new Devices section that appears in the left-hand column.

You will then have to enter your passcode to prove that you Trust the computer.

First you will have to unlock your iPhone.

When you plug in an iPhone (or a camera) into your Mac using a cable Photos should automatically open to allow you to import the images into your Photos library.

Here is what you need to do to import photos into Photos. There are actually a few ways to populate your Photo library. Best way to organise your photos on the Mac.

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