Iphone photos to macos

Use your iphone to instantly insert better quality photos into your documents

Mojave adds a photo-centric feature that could be overlooked, but when it is used your workflow will become more efficient and produce results way ahead of what a Mac camera is capable of. You can now access a simple menu option to connect to your iphone, snap the photo you need and then have it automatically inserted into the document you are working in. The process is simple and the end result is always exactly what you would expect, which are of course hallmarks of the macos way of working.

1 Set it up

Go to System Preferences>general and make sure that the ‘Allow Handoff between this Mac and icloud devices’ box is ticked.

2 The right-click

While in a document, find where you want to place a new image and select ‘Take Photo’. This is the only option you need to access for new iphone photos.

3 Select your iphone

A new pop-up panel will appear. Click it and the Camera app will open on your iphone. You are now ready to snap a new photo and follow the process to insert it.

4 Use the photo

Once the photo has been taken, tap ‘Use Photo’ on your iphone and it will be inserted into your document on the Mac. The process could not be more seamless.

5 The best quality

An iphone-quality image can now be edited within the document. Aside from Facetime, it’s likely you will never use the Mac camera again.

6 All done

Once inserted and edited you can continue to add text etc. Remember that the Mac and iphone need to be connected to the same Wi-fi network for this to work.