[HarHarVeryFunny]

They should have just said "USE it on your laptop", not email it.

I all the time use my phone as a camera (esp. for coin photography) than e-mail the photos to myself as the most convenient way to get them on my desktop where I can edit them with GIMP etc.

[unholiness]

I just open photos.google.com and grab them. No need to fiddle on my phone.

When on wifi, the photo backup upload starts immediately. If it doesn't (possibly due to your settings, this used to be my issue) you can manually open the photos app and tap the backup now button.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

I'm not sure if that's an option for me, since I'm not using the regular camera app - I'm using Halide which is better suited to macro (coin) photography.

Google Drive would be another option to transfer, but would be more work (about same to "share" as email, but less convenient to access on desktop).

The e-mail way is actually quite convenient since on the desktop you can just download all the photos you sent in one go - they appear as a zip file that you can then just extract to your working directory, rather than having to save one at a time.

[projektfu]

It will work if you ask Photos to back up halide's files.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

I just found a free app that makes it even easier: LocalSend

You install this on your phone (iphone or android), as well as on your computer (linux, windows or mac), then you can send files directly between any of these as long a they are on the same local network.

You just select your photos, click on "share", then select LocalSend and it'll show you the list of destinations to choose from (wherever you are currently running LocalSend), click on one and you're done!

On the receiving side you can select the directory where files will be transferred to, and if you set "Quick Save" option to "Favorites" then you can make your phone a favorite to avoid being prompted whether you want to accept each file it is sending.

So, it's literally just: select photos, share->LocalSend, click on destination