Uploading photographs from a Google Pixel Pro

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Unsettlingly, some images did not import; I only just noticed. I don't
think libgphoto2 has been very thoroughly tested. I'm now finding out if
macOS Image Capture (which is painfully slow) can import them.
-- 
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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