> Offloading photos/videos via Lightning cable is another story. I’ve had some serious pains trying to transfer content from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I’ve been on YouTube watching videos, unplugging, switching Lightning cables, restarting devices — doing all the things I can think of. I finally found a tip that said if you turn on Airplane mode, then Apple Photos will properly load, and thankfully it did.
> These pains offloading media are not a new issue specific to the iPhone 14 Pro, and I really hope it is solved soon.
I'm surprised that he didn't consider AirDrop as a means of getting photos out. That's how I transfer most of the photos I need to edit on my MacBook these days.
The crazy thing is how well libimobiledevice + AFC (1) work on Linux. All I do is plug in my iPhone and open Nautilus (2) to see a list of my apps (3) that support file sharing.
The phone shows up as a camera with photos, as well.
Oh, good point. In my first screenshot, the iPhone shows up twice in the leftmost list - the first with your apps and the second with photos from camera roll.
I wouldn't use Nautilus to import photos, though - I'd use something like digiKam (1 - showing my connected iPhone).
The first time you connect your iPhone, it'll ask if you want to 'Trust this computer'. After trusting, you need to run 'idevicepair pair' (2) in the terminal to pair. Then your iPhone (or iPad) will show up in Nautilus.
One use case: Infuse is my iOS video player, and copying movies or serials over is as simple as connecting the iPad or iPhone and copying to Infuse's storage. It copies at 20-30 MBs/sec, which is plenty fast.
I had not even thought about the ability to connect my iPhone with my Ubuntu machine. But it seems like I need to look a bit more into the possibilities.
I already use digiKam for my photography workflow. It is really awesome for managing photos, adding tags etc.
For importing photos I actually use Rapid Photo Downloader in order to import photos into "date-ordered" folders. So if I can get Ubuntu to recognise my iPhone then I can probably use the same to import photos from my phone if I ever need that ability.
When I worked at walk-in tech support at university, we weren't supposed to take responsibility for backing up data prior to drop-off and didn't have drives or anything for that purpose. Sometimes if the customer seemed like the type of person that wouldn't blame us (why that policy was there) and really had no way to get it off I would use one of our WinPE USB drives to copy their essential files. When they had a Mac, however, I would just AirDrop their entire home directory to the Mac loaner and show them how to do the same when it came back. It would go through 100GBs of files within a few minutes and didn't use any of our equipment other than the loaner itself.
I don't think I've plugged an iPhone into my MacBook other than to charge on a trip since the last time I was into jailbreaking and was running checkra1n.
AirDrop is the only feasible way but still, 60Gig of Raw Video still take its time and will cancel for stupid reasons, like the iPhone just going into standby while airdropping.
Apple still can't figure out which formats to use. I've seen Photos compress photos to something like 256x256 PNG when sending via AirDrop. And this depends very randomly on the versions of OSes on your phone and your laptop and on the year of your phone and laptop.
AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.
Lightning is limited to 53 MB/s by the sheer virtue of being USB 2.0, and probably is even slower in real life, so AirDrop would be at maximum 0.5 MB/s?
> These pains offloading media are not a new issue specific to the iPhone 14 Pro, and I really hope it is solved soon.
I'm surprised that he didn't consider AirDrop as a means of getting photos out. That's how I transfer most of the photos I need to edit on my MacBook these days.