Image Capture On Mac Slow. Its primary use is to help you import photos from an external photo device like your iphone to your mac. There are also issues with connecting the iphone to the mac in some cases the iphone is not recognized.

My imports are taking forever image conversion even on small png and jpegs is taking minutes. Snow leopard scanner drivers also seemed to be churning the disk a lot. One click to import photos videos from iphone to mac with icarefone.
The reason for this is because your iphone is converting each photo and video to a more compatible format.
Use the tools in the image capture toolbar to change how the thumbnails are shown. Quit image capture and restart your mac. Image capture takes forever and makes it almost impossible to import a big bunch of images. Image capture very slow to import photos and some files are failing to import.