Move photos fr iPhone to iPad withOUT iCloud?

[rainbowcat]

Greetings to all you wonderful experts!

I would like to move photos from my iPhone 6 (which can only run iOS10 partly b/c I've too many photos...) to iPad running iOS12. Way too many to use AirDrop. I absolutely do not want to use iCloud. Is this possible, and if so, how please?

Sorry for posting in wrong place. Broken wrist and I clicked the wrong this.

 

[MacInWin]

Sorry about the wrist.

You could use something like Dropbox or OneDrive if you can get them installed on the old version of iOS and the newer one on the iPad (I think you can, check with the iTunes store).

Just curious, why so opposed to iCloud? That's the easiest and quickest way to get it done.

 

[rainbowcat]

Thanks for reply abd wrist sympathy - it's pretty miserable.

iCloud has scrambled my photos too many times. Plus it takes photos from my Mac and stuffs those onto my iPad too. DropBox won't work on iOS10. I can't install anything on the iPhone as I've no space at all.

 

[MacInWin]

OK, how about iMazing? It replaces iTunes. Don't know if it supports 10, but worth looking at it. Gives a lot more access to things on the iPhone.

One other thought is to do a full backup, then reset the phone, upgrade to 12, then restore your files. Kind of a last resort, but if nothing else works, that might.

 

[ferrarr]

Why not use Image Capture on your Mac? Transfer the images, into a single folder, then copy them onto the newer phone?

 

[rainbowcat]

Thanks for replies. I've been locked out of here for some strange password problem. iMazing will not get photos to iPad, just to Mac. Not sure Image Capture will work for 7 gigs of photos?

 

[MacInWin]

Image capture should not care how many or how large the images are. It will just take more time to accomplish 7G of data moving. But you still have to figure out how to get them to the iPad without iCloud.

 

[rainbowcat]

Thank you MacInWin.

If I use iCloud it grabs every photo on my Mac, and that is much more space than I have on my iPad, nor do I want all those photos on my iPad. There doesn't seem to be any other way of doing this?

 

[MacInWin]

Well, what is synced is what is in Photos, so you COULD create a new Photos database through Photos/Preferences, import from the iPhone to that new database so that only those pictures are in the database, then turn on iCloud on the Mac to get them up to iCloud and then turn on iCloud sync on the iPad to bring them down to Photos on the iPad and once all is done syncing, turn off syncing and go into Photos Preferences and point back to the original database. None of the pictures from the iPhone will be in that older database.

All that assumes, of course, that there is sufficient room at iCloud for all those 7 G to be stored? And that iCloud works with iOS 10. But it might work.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Try PhotoSync. It's an iOS app with a counterpart for macOS. You can use it to transfer directly to another iDevice or Mac running the software (EDIT: actually you can also transfer to other supported platforms that have the app available). I've used it on and off for years now and it's great.

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

 

[Slydude]

Pretty much all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models are supported. If your device is running an older iOS version (prior to iOS 5), some features may not be available, though.

That comes from the OS support pages.

iMazing has a feature that allows users to transfer data from one IOS device to another. You connect both devices and select the source device. Choose transfer to another device and then select the data to be trnsferred. It is possible to transfer just the photos. suggest making a backup of the devce first (which iMazing also does).

You could use iTunes to move the photos as well. Using either methd does not require iCloud.

 

[chscag]

You could use iTunes to move the photos as well. Using either method does not require iCloud.

How would you do it using iTunes? I'm always a bit reluctant to use iTunes to move anything between devices since it seems to have a mind of its own. Everytime I try moving things with iTunes it wants to "sync" them instead and that usually results in overwriting what's on the device you're try to move things to.

Which is why I trust and use iMazing. As long as both devices are on the same network, it will move just about anything from one to the other.

 

[ferrarr]

I don’t know if this was posted, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302#importmac.

 

[Slydude]

@ Charlie

I could have sworn I've done this before using iTunes but can't find a way to do it in the current version. Thanks for correcting me. Going to put on the dunce cap for a while though.

In either case I know iMazing works. I moved some photos from my wife's phone recently using iMazing and she doesn't have iCloud enabled.

BTW If the Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band final tour is appearing anywhere near youo go see it.

 

[pm-r]

Which is why I trust and use iMazing. As long as both devices are on the same network, it will move just about anything from one to the other.

+1!!! 101%!!! I couldn't agree more!!!


- Patrick
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[Rod]

If you think you may have ongoing need to transfer files between portable iOS devices and or a computer you might like to consider something like the SanDisk iXpand flash drive https://www.lifewire.com/sandisk-ixpand-review-2740740

 

[rainbowcat]

Yup! iTunes tried to stuff all of the photos (12 gigs!) that were on my Mac desktop onto my iPad. I had to physically disconnect to stop it, and I'm still stuck with about a gig of photos on my iPad that I can't delete unless I ditch them from my Mac too.

I finally used Bluetooth, album by album, and got enough photos off my phone so that I could update to iOS 12. Albums are all scrambled, but so goes it. Now I just have to back up the photos from my iPad to my Mac desktop...

Thank you to everyone here for such great advice and many solutions. When my broken wrist heals I will try iMazing and all the links y'all generously provided.

 

[rainbowcat]

Broken wrist Is making replying to you all very difficult.But please know I appreciate all of these suggestions And links.We'll try them all when my wrist heals. Meantime I used air drop To get enough photos off my phoneThat I can download IOS 12. I thought I posted a reply but it's not showing up, So I'm trying it again

Again thank you to everyone for taking the time to reply

 

[pm-r]

Broken wrist Is making replying to you all very difficult.But please know I appreciate all of these suggestions And links.

Bummer on your wrist and I hope it heals well soon.

In the interim, maybe try Mac's Dictation and a few of the other OS handicap helpers if you're not doing so already. Just a little reminder... Some may help your Wrist Healing session...



- Patrick
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[rainbowcat]

thanks. Believe me, I'm very thankful for Mac's assistive tech at the moment!