How do I get full resolution photos from my Mac onto my iPhone? (No iCloud)

Submitted by thatdude473 t3_zxfx44 in iphone

How do I sync my photos library from my mac onto my iPhone in full resolution? I swear you used to be able to do this, but now I can only get 3mp compressed versions to sync. It’s so stupid because I have a 14pm so having 48mp raw photos compressed all the way down to 3mp is laughable.

I do not want to use iCloud as I have about 25gb of photos/videos and am not interested in paying for a subscription to do what I should be able to do with the local hardware I already have.

My current proccess/workflow is as follows: import the iPhone photos into Mac photos app. Delete after import. Then, go to Finder, and sync the iPhone with the photos I want checked in the photos tab. The photos get put back onto the iPhone, and I have all of them including my Mac folders. But then I go to try to use a photo I took on my iPhone as a wallpaper for instance, and the damn photo is potato quality and only 3mp. It’s not just a setting with the proraw photos either, as 12mp photos from my iPhone Xs sync as 3mp as well.

How on earth do I get my 8,000 photos put back onto my iPhone now, in full res? This isn’t 2009 with an 8gb phone. I have 256gb and I fully intend to get my full quality photos onto my phone one way or a other.

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sts816 t1_j20nkx8 wrote

No idea how to help but it’s wild this is even a problem in the first place.

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thatdude473 OP t1_j20obz3 wrote

Replying to sts816 (#1,125,545)

It seems like it’s a leftover limitation from the iPod photo/iPod video days, or early ios when 8gb was what most people had. I suppose now they just expect me to use iCloud but it’s not like modern devices can’t handle the larger files, it just refuses to actually sync them.

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thatdude473 OP t1_j20sj2a wrote

Replying to macmonet (#1,126,346)

Will airdrop allow me to keep my folder organization? And also, if I airdrop photos to the iPhone, then plug it in to the mac to import photos I took, won’t it also show all the airdropped photos (which would already be in the mac photos library)?

It annoys me even more because i just spent several months organizing 50k photos I had going back to 2012 from different drives and cloud services and finally got them all sorted down to 8,000 keepers and they are mostly in folders from certain times in my life or certain events/holidays. Losing all that would be honestly devastating at this point since I spent so much time on it.

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kermityfrog t1_j24lj86 wrote

Replying to sts816 (#1,125,545)

It's pretty stupid how you can hook up an iPhone to a computer and be able to view all the photos as if it were an external drive, but while you can copy from iPhone to computer, you can't copy the photos back.

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