Importing iPhone photos into Bridge

[rob-mcp]

Can anyone pleeeeese tell me how I can import / display iPhone photos into Bridge?

When I connect the phone, I can see a list of pics and they display as PS icons but not thumbnails. They won't open if clicked on, also if I view in another format (list I think? ) I see the image PS icons, but they all say 0 bytes.

This is the same when using an Andriod phone for images.

Any suggestions?

[gary_sc]

Do you want to transfer them to your computer or look at them in Bridge? If you want the latter, sorry, the iPhone is wrapped in special "Apple" invisible cloaking, and you cannot do that. You can try to download the images to your phone. There are four ways I'm aware of that you can do that.

1) plug your iPhone into your computer, and click on the "Get Photos from Camera" icon in Bridge. This may or may not work. I just tried it, and it wanted me to update some software on my computer. After I updated the software, it still did not work. YMMV, good luck

2) If you have DropBox, I have found this VERY successful: you need to have DropBox on your computer and on your phone. You get limited free space from the get-go; you can buy more space if you choose. Then, from the DropBox app on your iPhone, you click on the big Plus (+) symbol on the bottom of the screen. Then, a curtain will unfurl from the bottom, asking what you want to add. The very top option is to Upload Photos. Then, you click on the photos you want to add. Then you choose a folder (I just let them go into the primary folder, your call) and click Upload. 

3) If you have the Photoshop plan, you have Lightroom available to you. You can let LRM access the images in your phone Photos collection from the Lightroom Mobile app on your phone. Then, as LRM sends your images to the cloud, it will also send your camera's images as well as LRM's images. This is automatic.

4) You can send the images to yourself, one by one, from Mail. Yeah, this takes time but is also a viable way to do it. Always send the "Actual Size" choice for this.

Sorry for the complication, good luck!

[rob-mcp]

Do you want to transfer them to your computer or look at them in Bridge?

Both!

Thanks for the suggestions. I will find a workaround. There are two types in this world, PC and Mac, I am not the latter.

Choices I suppose.

[gary_sc]

Hi, @rob-mcp, Ironically, this is one of the few issues that is OS-irrelavant. FWIW, I mostly use #3 now but for years relied upon #2 — and I'm Mac on both ends of this. (It's possible that because I'm on a Mac, and if I used Apple's Photos (which I don't), it might be possible to transfer them from phone to computer via that, but I've never tested that.)

[rob-mcp]

Thanks Gary.

Having worked in Tech since 1989, I STILL find it infuriating that things are NOT simple, despite the sales pitches and just when you get used to something that does work, it gets 'upgraded and improved'

Cheers.

[gary_sc]

I started with the Fat Mac, which had a whole bunch of RAM, 512 kb of RAM! What I've observed from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and the whole lot of them is that at one point, they realize that their software is too focused, and they then backtrack so that the user has to click a button "for miraculous results!" At that point, the software stops being easy to use for those who want nuance. Nuance is subtle and requires more knowledge of the process and the tools. By making things easy for the beginner, they made it harder to use for the experienced person. 

Alas…

[rob-mcp]

By making things easy for the beginner, they made it harder to use for the experienced person.

WITH BELLS ON!

[Conrad_C · Accepted solution]

Try the steps below, do they work?

1. Open Adobe Bridge.

2. Connect phone to computer.

3. Make sure phone is unlocked, and then…

4. In Bridge, choose File > Get Photos from Camera.

Does the Adobe Photo Downloader see the photos on the phone?

When a phone is connected but locked, applications including Bridge and its photo downloader may say there are no photos on it, but that might not be true if the phone just needs to be unlocked.

[gary_sc]

Bingo Conrad. I have not transferred images over in many years, but back then, you did not HAVE to have the phone unlocked. Now you do. I did not even think about that but it's very logical looking at how Apple uses protection in every way possible.

Thanks!