Since I no longer keep my photos in Apple Photos, I needed a way to transfer my photos from my iPhone to my new file system.
I knew I could plug in my iPhone via USB cable and then use Image Capture to get the photos, but transferring the photos wirelessly would be really nice.
I was looking at USB thumb drives that I could plug into the Lightning port (on the iPhone 14 Plus), export the photos, and then plug into my Mac via the USB C plug.
This seemed fine, except I’d be using SansDisk software. I watched a few YouTube videos, and it looked atrocious.
Not to mention, sure, that’s another $50 purchase.
I then remembered that Dropbox has cloud photo storage. I’ve got the space in my account, and it seems that a month’s worth of photos on my phone is around 5GB of space.
So now, at the end of every month, I can export the images from Dropbox on my Mac and drag them into my new file system.
There is no clunky SansDisk software, no extra purchase, and it all works seamlessly in the background. I did it today for the images, too, and it’s absolutely fine.
