HowTo: AirDrop: Transfer iPhone Photos to Mac (2021)

If you have taken the photos on the iPhone them you can just connect it to your Mac and use Apple Photos to copy them to your Mac.

However if you have used iTunes Sync (or syncing your photos through the Finder in newer versions of macOS) but then lost them and need to transfer them back to your Mac, then you can use AirDrop to do this. This method can also be used to transfer your photos to another iPad or iPhone.

AirDrop even gives you the option to import them directly into Apple Photos!