I would like to know if and how it is possible to pull pictures from the iPhone to the Mac in order to be able to delete the pictures from the iPhone but keep them on the notebook… With iCloud this does not work because everything synchronizes regularly…
I'm desperate… I need more space but I do not want to lose my pictures
So I always connect my phone to my Mac and open iPhoto. There you can then import your pictures into iPhoto. If they are imported you can remove the cable and delete it on your iPhone. You can also simply drag the pictures from iPhoto directly into your own file or USB. If you do not want to keep it in iPhoto.
Hope I could help you.
Yes will work. Just turn off iCloud photos on Mac and iPhone. Connect iPhone to Mac with a cable and transfer manually in the Photos app.
Settings> Photos> Optimize iPhone memory. Then it automatically deletes the photos from your iPhone but keeps them safe in the iCloud. So you have your photos always and everywhere available, but do not consume device memory.
The same can be done on the Mac. Photos.app> "⌘ +,"> iCloud> Optimize Mac Memory.
Deleting the photos on the iPhone and keeping them on the Mac is a bad idea because you have to turn off the iCloud library for all the benefits, and you'll always have to sync everything manually and you'll no longer have the photos everywhere.
IPhoto was discontinued in 2014 and there's no way to get it again.