Uploading photographs from a Google Pixel Pro

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Randolph,

Please report this kind of todo work on a new bugzilla entry to port the
import backend to the Apple::ImageCaptureCore API.

https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=digikam

We have already a similar task for the Windows API.

The Bugzilla section is Import-Gphoto2 (for the moment)

Best regards

Gilles Caulier



Le jeu. 24 sept. 2026 à 05:46, Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> the "official" macOS way of dealing with this would be to use the macos
> "ImageCaptureCore" API, but it seems like a lot of work to go through for
> something that already works with gphoto, if you can avoid the OS grabbing
> the interface. There is a python wrapper for ImageCaptureCore, so I suppose
> it would be possible without too much fuss.
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> …and macOS, for some reason, sometimes starts a daemon called ptpcamerad,
>> which grabs the camera interface. Not sure why it starts. SIP prevents me
>> from disabling it.
>> --
>> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I decided to try to make the "import" function work—and it did! These
>>> were the steps I used:
>>>
>>>    1. Physically connect smartphone via USB cable. On the phone set the
>>>    USB connection type to PTP
>>>    2.  Import>Add Camera Manually. Select auto-detect.
>>>    Camera was found, identified as "Google Inc Nexus/Pixel (PTP)"
>>>    3. Import>Cameras>Google Inc Nexus/Pixel (PTP).
>>>    A dialog appeared. *Wait*. if you have a large number of images it
>>>    will take time to scan the camera. There will be no progress bar, or any
>>>    indication that this is occurring. Go have a cup of tea.
>>>    4. The images can then be viewed and downloaded.
>>>
>>> I found that querying the image metadata in the import dialog with
>>> exiftool did not work; the message was “Cannot load data from <file>”with
>>> ExifTool.” There is an “Open Setup Dialog” button, but it does not seem to
>>> work.
>>>
>>> digiKam: 9.1.0
>>> KDE Frameworks: 6.26.0
>>> Qt: Using 6.11.0 and built against 6.11.0
>>> macOS Sequoia (15.7.7)
>>> Build ABI: arm64-little_endian-lp64
>>> Kernel: darwin 24.6.0
>>>
>>> Smartphone was a Google Pixel Pro 6, updated to July 5, 2026.
>>> --
>>> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>>>
>>
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