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I'm about to get a new Samsung Galaxy, and ditch my now-old compact digital camera. I only take "snaps" these days, so a good phone will more than compensate for losing the camera.

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia,
which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to a current MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to transfer after
I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is ... I'm looking at a 2nd
hand S24).


(And before anyone makes the obvious recommendation: No thanks, I don't want
an iPhone.)

Cheers
Another John
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Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs >from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia, >which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to
a current MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to >transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is
... I'm looking at a 2nd hand S24).

For images, Photos should be able to import them if you select PTP
from the USB choice menu after connecting the phone. If you've got a
lot of photos it takes minutes before anything shows up in imports, so
you might well think it's not working.

This works for me on my Pixel phone and worked on the Sumsung I had
before. The main annoyance is that it imports the thumbnails too;
sometimes these show up in Photos's "duplicates" list, but not always.

Of course Apple doesn't have much interest in making this work
smoothly.

(And be sure to use a cable suitable for fast data transfer.)

-- Richard
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On 31/07/2026 19:52, Another John wrote:

I'm about to get a new Samsung Galaxy, and ditch my now-old compact digital camera. I only take "snaps" these days, so a good phone will more than compensate for losing the camera.

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia, which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to a current
MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is ... I'm looking at a 2nd hand S24).

(And before anyone makes the obvious recommendation: No thanks, I don't want an iPhone.)

Will image capture not do the job?
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On Jul 31, 2026 at 3:04:41rC>PM EDT, "Richard Tobin" <Richard Tobin> wrote:

In article <t96bS.32227$4Fu9.10642@usenetxs.com>,
Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs >> from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia,
which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to
a current MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to
transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is
... I'm looking at a 2nd hand S24).

For images, Photos should be able to import them if you select PTP
from the USB choice menu after connecting the phone. If you've got a
lot of photos it takes minutes before anything shows up in imports, so
you might well think it's not working.

This works for me on my Pixel phone and worked on the Sumsung I had
before. The main annoyance is that it imports the thumbnails too;
sometimes these show up in Photos's "duplicates" list, but not always.

Of course Apple doesn't have much interest in making this work
smoothly.

To be fair, neither does Samsung/Google/Android. Helping the competition
makes no business sense.
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Nick Charles <none@none.none> wrote:

Of course Apple doesn't have much interest in making this work
smoothly.

To be fair, neither does Samsung/Google/Android. Helping the competition >makes no business sense.

The situation is not symmetrical. Those companies don't have the
large computer market shares to lock their phone users into. No-one,
as far as I know, buys a Samsung or Google computer because their
Android phone works better with it than with a Mac. It's in both
Google's and Samsung's interest for their phones to work well with a
Mac.

-- Richard
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On 31 Jul 2026 at 22:21:51 BST, "Richard Tobin" <Richard Tobin> wrote:

In article <l4idndqZvs8Xm_D3nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@supernews.com>,
Nick Charles <none@none.none> wrote:

Of course Apple doesn't have much interest in making this work
smoothly.

To be fair, neither does Samsung/Google/Android. Helping the competition
makes no business sense.

The situation is not symmetrical. Those companies don't have the
large computer market shares to lock their phone users into. No-one,
as far as I know, buys a Samsung or Google computer because their
Android phone works better with it than with a Mac. It's in both
Google's and Samsung's interest for their phones to work well with a
Mac.

Yes Richard - I agree with your last sentence. That's why I asked here:
perhaps in the last 'n' years someone has made an easier way available, for cross-platform transfer, which I hadn't heard of. Seems not [so far].

And "I don't want want an iPhone" (as I said in my original post) precisely because I have never wanted to get sucked into Apple's expensive iWorld (despite about 35 years of using Macs). The thread 'above', from Andy, on price increases, illustrates the point. There's a large element of "the global market", of course; but these days there's also a very large element of plain, simple, overweening greed -- "because we can".

Sorry - I seem to have slipped off-topic there :-)

Another John
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Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm about to get a new Samsung Galaxy, and ditch my now-old compact digital camera. I only take "snaps" these days, so a good phone will more than compensate for losing the camera.

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia, which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to a current MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to
transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is ... I'm looking at a 2nd hand S24).

https://localsend.org/

It works much like AirDrop, but cross platform. You install it at both ends, you run the app on the receiving side, and 'share' files to it on the
sending side. It's pretty straightforward.

Recent versions of Android also support AirDrop natively via 'Quick Share'
but I think it's only slowly rolling out to different phone models.

If you want to do a bulk copy of GB then one of the USB methods is going to
be quicker, but LocalSend is fine for moving whole folders just slightly
more slowly (depending on local wifi network)

Theo
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On 2 Aug 2026 at 11:52:31 BST, "Theo" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm about to get a new Samsung Galaxy, and ditch my now-old compact digital >> camera. I only take "snaps" these days, so a good phone will more than
compensate for losing the camera.

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs >> from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia,
which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to a
current MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to
transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is ... I'm >> looking at a 2nd hand S24).

https://localsend.org/

It works much like AirDrop, but cross platform. You install it at both ends, you run the app on the receiving side, and 'share' files to it on the
sending side. It's pretty straightforward.

Recent versions of Android also support AirDrop natively via 'Quick Share' but I think it's only slowly rolling out to different phone models.

If you want to do a bulk copy of GB then one of the USB methods is going to be quicker, but LocalSend is fine for moving whole folders just slightly
more slowly (depending on local wifi network)

Theo

Thanks a lot Theo - I will have a look at that!

AJ
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Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2 Aug 2026 at 11:52:31 BST, "Theo" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

https://localsend.org/

It works much like AirDrop, but cross platform. You install it at both ends,
you run the app on the receiving side, and 'share' files to it on the sending side. It's pretty straightforward.

Recent versions of Android also support AirDrop natively via 'Quick Share' but I think it's only slowly rolling out to different phone models.

If you want to do a bulk copy of GB then one of the USB methods is going to be quicker, but LocalSend is fine for moving whole folders just slightly more slowly (depending on local wifi network)

Theo

Thanks a lot Theo - I will have a look at that!

Another app that might be useful is https://syncthing.net/

That's more of a 'sync', the kind of thing you might expect from iCloud or Google Drive, only it's between local machines (cross-platform). eg you can set up the Camera folder on your phone as the source and 'sync' it to your Mac (make sure you set it as a one-way sync), and any time you take a photo, the next time the sync runs it'll automatically mirror the photos to a folder on your Mac.

That might be another way to do it without having to manually send photos
each time. Just start the sync and it'll update the folder on your Mac with the latest photos.

Theo
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On 31 Jul 2026 at 7:52:09rC>pm BST, "Another John" <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm about to get a new Samsung Galaxy, and ditch my now-old compact digital camera. I only take "snaps" these days, so a good phone will more than compensate for losing the camera.

I've been using Android File Transfer on my old Mojave Mac to transfer jpgs from my present phone; I then transfer them to my current iMac (Sequoia, which does not run AFT).

Is there a recommended way to transfer files direct from Android, to a current
MacOS like Sequoia? I expect to be having many more jpgs to transfer after I've acquired my new Samsung. (new to me, that is ... I'm looking at a 2nd hand S24).

(And before anyone makes the obvious recommendation: No thanks, I don't want an iPhone.)

Cheers
Another John

Have a look at this. I used it extensively around 10 years ago & it worked
very well (although just within the Apple ecosystem). I /think/ it looks like the sort of thing you're looking for.

<https://www.phototransferapp.com>
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Cheers ... Mark
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