What it picks up.
Every photo, every clip, every screen recording — anything the Galaxy treats as a captured file. SyncShot reads the phone once and copies what it finds, regardless of format or how One UI's gallery has organised it.
- Photos
- Every photo the Galaxy shoots — JPEG, HEIF where the model supports it, RAW (DNG) from Pro and Expert modes on the S and Ultra lines — pulled at full resolution, single shots and bursts and panoramas alike.
- Video
- Standard 4K, 8K on the Ultra, slow-motion, super-slow-mo, the high-bitrate Pro Video clips. Long takes copy in a single pass with progress you can watch.
- Captures
- Screen recordings, screenshots, downloaded media, S Pen scribbles and edits saved back to the gallery — copied alongside the rest, treated as Galaxy media like any other file.
- Metadata
- Timestamps, location, orientation, and the technical EXIF data the camera wrote — preserved as the file moves from phone to destination.
Where it sends.
One source, many destinations — and SyncShotreads the Galaxy once, then fans the same files out to every place you chose. Pick one. Pick five. The phone doesn't wake up for each one.
- Internal disk
- Your Mac's own drive. The fastest target — usually first in the chain so the slower destinations can feed from it in the background.
- External drives
- USB-C and Thunderbolt SSDs, spinning HDDs, anything macOS mounts. Multiple drives at once if your shoot demands it.
- Network storage
- Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, plain SMB shares. SyncShot writes over the network without blocking the local copy or slowing the phone read.
- Cloud
- S3 and S3-compatible buckets (Wasabi, R2, MinIO), Google Drive, Dropbox, Azure Blob. Same job, different destination — uploaded in parallel.
How it works.
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Connect the phone
Cable in. Trust the Mac if it asks, and set the USB mode to file transfer when the Galaxy prompts. SyncShot sees it as a source the moment macOS does — no driver, no companion app.
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Choose destinations
Pick every place this shoot belongs. Save the set as a workflow if you'll use it again — next time it's one click.
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Hit start
SyncShot reads the Galaxy once and writes to every destination in parallel. The fastest disk finishes first; cloud uploads keep going in the background.
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Trust the report
Every byte is hash-checked end to end. When the job finishes you get a report — what was copied, where it landed, every verification mark. The byte that left the phone is the byte that arrived.
The Samsung specifics.
The catalogue: S24 Ultra, S24 Plus, S23 Ultra on the flagship line; Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 on the foldables; Note 20 Ultra still working in plenty of kits. Stills arrive as JPEG or HEIF, DNG from Pro mode, and Samsung Expert RAW writes its own flavour of DNG at higher bit depth. Video covers H.264 and H.265, with 8K on Ultra bodies and LOG when Expert RAW is enabled.
Two ways to reach the files. MTP is easier — plug in, tap File transfer in the notification shade, and the Galaxy shows up. ADB is the escape hatch when a newer Android hides the SD card from the file picker. SD contents on modern Samsungs live under /storage/XXXX-XXXX/DCIM/; SyncShot walks that path regardless of what One UI shows on top.
Common questions.
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Does SyncShot work with every Galaxy?
If macOS mounts your Galaxy — through Android File Transfer, Finder, or any MTP-aware tool — SyncShot can read it. Galaxy S, Note, Z Flip, Z Fold — all the same to the Mac, all the same to SyncShot.
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Can it copy to my external drive and my NAS at the same time?
Yes. Pick as many destinations as you want — internal disk, external SSD, NAS, S3-compatible bucket, Google Drive — and SyncShot reads the Galaxy once and feeds every destination in parallel.
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What happens to the originals on the phone after a copy?
By default the originals stay on the Galaxy — SyncShot is built to copy, not move. If a workflow does call for clearing the source after a verified copy, that's a conscious choice you make per workflow, never a surprise.
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How do I know the copy is intact?
Every copy is hash-verified end to end. If a destination wrote something other than what the Galaxy handed over, SyncShot flags it and retries — and the job report tells you exactly what landed where.
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Does it read the SD card and Expert RAW files?
Yes to both. Samsung stores SD card contents at /storage/XXXX-XXXX/DCIM/, and SyncShot walks that tree regardless of what One UI shows in the file picker. Expert RAW writes DNGs into a Samsung-specific folder alongside the JPEG; both copy in one pass. If MTP hides the card on a newer Android version, switch to ADB — SyncShot supports either transport, and the folder layout underneath is the same.
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