Transfer Photos From Iphone To My Passport Mac Storage Space

This is a great way of making sure they are backed up, however, if you are a bit snap happy, then your Mac storage space can quickly run out.

But iCloud Photo Library isnt a backup as such - if you delete a photo that was taken on your iPhone it will be deleted from the cloud too.

Then, whenever you open the Photos app on your Mac, it will access this drive and show you your photos (as long as its plugged in, of course).

If you have a large library a hard drive with a few TB of storage may appeal, but if you intend to spend time using the Photos app editing the photos and so on, you may want to consider flash storage (an SSD).

Either way, we would recommend a Thunderbolt or USB-3USB Type-C interface for the fastest transfers.

You can check out our guide to the best hard drives here and our best SSDs here.

If you need to reformat the disk, follow the steps in this tutorial: How to format a disk for Mac.

Open a Finder window and click on your Mac Home folder (the icon looks like a house and it will probably be identified by your username).

This will show you the master folders containing your photos.

You may want to do this if you were copying images to a PC since the PC may not be able to view the contents of the Photos Library).

Remember you will need to plug in your drive (or connect to it via WiFi in order to see your photos there).

How To Transfer Photos From Iphone To My Passport For Mac