Transferring photos - computer to iPhone

[oosik]

I have an Apple computer - it has Bluetooth. The computer OS - Catalina 10.15.7. I have an Apple iPhone - it has Bluetooth. The cell phone OS - 14.5. I have two digital cameras. I load photos from the cameras to the computer. I fire up both the computer & cell phone and enable Bluetooth on both. When I try the transfer I get a message - the device lacks the necessary services.

How do you transfer photos from your computer to your cell phone?

 

[Frankenkubota]

I have an Apple computer - it has Bluetooth. The computer OS - Catalina 10.15.7. I have an Apple iPhone - it has Bluetooth. The cell phone OS - 14.5. I have two digital cameras. I load photos from the cameras to the computer. I fire up both the computer & cell phone and enable Bluetooth on both. When I try the transfer I get a message - the device lacks the necessary services.

How do you transfer photos from your computer to your cell phone?

I don't have any idea but......i have a similar problem and in my case i believe it's apple playing their games. They have a long and well documented history of stroking their customers.

Apple will not sync my phone to ipad or vice versa because i refuse to buy more of their cloud. If i take a photo out in the woods etc with my i phone and want to post that pic.....I must send the pic to myself from my i phone and then receive it on my ipad.

I know enough about this stuff to know that my i phone can sync to the ipad without going thru their cloud.

I'm going to withhold my editorial comments re Apple except to say, it's amazing to me how so many people worship these companies...... as much as i dispise them.

 

[jmc]

Maybe you guys are saying this with different terms but I just hit the "Share" icon, select the photo to share, and select "AirDrop". iPhone then shows the available devices nearby and I select my iPad button.

 

[KennyG]

On my Android phone, the USB cable will not work for file transfer, for some reason. I use an app called "Send Anywhere" to transfer files and it works really well. It is also available for the Apple phones.

 

[Grumpycat]

Photos will sync via USB/Lightning cable without iCloud. Or even WiFi.

If you have more than the free 5GB iCloud quota then just move the extra out of your Mac's default photo library into a secondary library. Plenty of websites tell you how. Then iCloud will magically sync once again.

 

[oosik]

Thanks to all. Several solutions that I can try. I will post my results. None of the photos on my computer are that unique. I could affect a solution for all, take the pic with the iPhone, but about six. Of course, those are the ones I want to transfer.

 

[oosik]

Well - it's been accomplished. Five photos transferred from my computer to my cell phone. I hooked the two together with a USB cable and followed the steps outlined on an Apple web site. Downloaded one new software pkg - upgraded another. Three new passwords - two new security codes. Marched thru innumerable drop down menus. I, honestly, can not imagine a scenario where I will got thru this level of BS - ever again.

I felt like I was asking to transfer the launch codes for the Starwars ballistic missile inventory.

Oh, well - its done.

 

[MossRoad]

I have an Apple computer - it has Bluetooth. The computer OS - Catalina 10.15.7. I have an Apple iPhone - it has Bluetooth. The cell phone OS - 14.5. I have two digital cameras. I load photos from the cameras to the computer. I fire up both the computer & cell phone and enable Bluetooth on both. When I try the transfer I get a message - the device lacks the necessary services.

How do you transfer photos from your computer to your cell phone?

I think you may need to have both WIFI and Bluetooth turned on on both of the devices for that to work. It you haven't already, give it a try.

 

[oosik]

Thanks Moss. I would give it a try - except out here there is no such thing as WiFi. The cell phone signal is one or two bars at best and right now the heavy cloud cover is giving HughesNet the fits. AND I know just enough about Bluetooth, WiFi & the Cloud to really get my shorts in a twist.

 

[RalphVa]

I'd think the easiest way is to send yourself an email with the picture right in it or as an attachment.

 

[grsthegreat]

On my Samsung phone I use an app called Photo Transfer. Its easy to use and I can transfer photos between windows 7 desktop, my IPad, or my phone without any cables.

 

[oosik]

So..... I'm poking around - looking at the photos on my iPhone. Tapped on an icon and next thing I know a message appears - "authorize the transfer of an additional 40 photos". One more wireless session like that and I will have all my photos on my iPhone.

It was a whole lot faster, easier than using the USB cord to download those original five - earlier today. I guess if I did a transfer more often - I just might have a better idea of what I'm doing.

 

[MossRoad]

Have you every used air drop?

 

[TractorGuy]

On my Android phone, the USB cable will not work for file transfer, for some reason. I use an app called "Send Anywhere" to transfer files and it works really well. It is also available for the Apple phones.

On your android you have to slide your finger down from the top after connecting the usb cable to access the option to enable the file transfer mode. The default just uses it for charging.

I often want to copy photos from my phone to my PC. I just touch the share icon and email them to myself. It compresses the image but no reason you can't do it in either direction.

 

[oosik]

Air drop and the cloud are active software programs on both my computer and cell phone.

 

[MossRoad]

I find that air drop works great! I use it between my iPhone, my wife's iPhone, my kids, my coworkers, and my iPad. It's pretty seamless. Just select the photos you want to send to the other devices, hit the little square with the arrow to do something with the photos, choose air drop, and a list of devices with air drop near you pops up. Select the device you want to send it to and a notice appears on that other device that something is being air dropped to it. Accept it on the other device and boom! Over they go. It's pretty simple. And pretty fast, too.

 

[Cycledude]

No internet service available where I live so I use a Verizon Jetpack for internet, if I take a picture with my iPhone it automatically shows up on my iPad, has been working great for me for quite a few years.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Well - it's been accomplished. Five photos transferred from my computer to my cell phone. I hooked the two together with a USB cable and followed the steps outlined on an Apple web site. Downloaded one new software pkg - upgraded another. Three new passwords - two new security codes. Marched thru innumerable drop down menus. I, honestly, can not imagine a scenario where I will got thru this level of BS - ever again.

I felt like I was asking to transfer the launch codes for the Starwars ballistic missile inventory.

Oh, well - its done.

and that's why i gave up on this chit years ago. seems every time they do something that might make things easier, the marketing/legal dept get their hands on it and makes it a nightmare.

i find the only thing that comes easy to me is buying something from e bay or that other POS online retailer. i wonder why?

i know a lot of folks like this tappy tappy tappy BS but it ain't for me.

 

[KennyG]

On your android you have to slide your finger down from the top after connecting the usb cable to access the option to enable the file transfer mode. The default just uses it for charging.

I often want to copy photos from my phone to my PC. I just touch the share icon and email them to myself. It compresses the image but no reason you can't do it in either direction.

That worked on my old phone but not on my new phone. Seems to be some glitch with the USB port. Send Anywhere app works well so I quit worrying about it.

 

[deezler]

Is your computer on a wired local network to the hugesNet? No wireless router (wifi) ? Airdrop requires both devices to be on a common wifi network for best results.

Or like Ralph said, just email them to yourself. I do this a lot.