How to move photos from my iPhone onto my MacBook Air?

Okay, this isn't really what my question's about, so keep reading:

I have about 1,000 vacation photos that are in my Photos app on both my iPhone and my MacBook Air. Because they are taking up storage on my phone, I want to keep them on my computer only. However, I would still like them to be in the Photos app on my computer, not a separate file. How can I delete certain photos from my iPhone without deleting them on my MacBook?

Okay, this isn't really what my question's about, so keep reading:

I have about 1,000 vacation photos that are in my Photos app on both my iPhone and my MacBook Air. Because they are taking up storage on my phone, I want to keep them on my computer only. However, I would still like them to be in the Photos app on my computer, not a separate file. How can I delete certain photos from my iPhone without deleting them on my MacBook? "1,000 photos in Photos app on both iPhone and MacBook Air. Because they are taking up storage on my phone, I want to keep them on my computer only. However, I would still like them to be in the Photos app on my computer, not a separate file. How can I delete certain photos from my iPhone without deleting them on my MacBook?"

Export as separate files. Once you use iCloud Photo Sharing, the files are shared, not one file on each device. To un-share, they are removed from Photos app. You can't eat your cake and still have it. If you don't want to share one copy of all files between two or more iCloud devices, you need a hard copy of the files on one device. After that, if you never want to share photos again, you can be sure the Photos app's preferences are set to copy items to the Library for any import, import the files, and then trash the external files.

Why is it so horrible to have separate files? Do you have a backup of important stuff? Do you think computers are bullet-proof and can never have a glitch, can never lose all your stuff? If you do not have a second copy of every important photo on an external drive, you are just wishing for pain.

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