Transfer/Import Photos from Android Phone to Linux Mint

[JohnJ]

My Phone is an Oppo A53. PC is Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.0.4, 5.15.0-107-generic.
I would like to transfer/import my phone photos to my Desktop PC. I am using Pix and it works well except some (mostly older) photos that I have taken on my phone do not show up on Pix. On connection my phone has a popup dialog box ' Use USB to Charge Only, Transfer Files/Android Auto, Transfer Photos' options.
I have tried selecting 'Transfer Files/Android Auto' and tried selecting 'Transfer Photos' both will show most of my photos but not all of my photos that I have taken on my phone. Again, I can see my recent photos but not earlier ones.
What I cannot see in Pix at all are any photos taken by my wife and sent to me on her Mobile via What's App or her Messenger App. They are there, I can see them on my phone. Maybe there is something other than Pix that I could try? Cheers

 

[Brickwizard]

with both my old android and now my granddaughters iPhone I just use a cable connection and drag n'drop from the phone to the desktop then edit/ sort them from there.

 

[JohnJ]

with both my old android and now my granddaughters iPhone I just use a cable connection and drag n'drop from the phone to the desktop then edit/ sort them from there.

OK but, 'What I cannot see in Pix at all are any photos taken by my wife and sent to me on her Mobile via What's App or her Messenger App. They are there, I can see them on my phone.' So if I can't see them in Pix then there is nothing to drag and drop. This is my problem

 

[Brickwizard]

with MSM you should be able to drag and drop from the messenger page to desktop, WhatsApp i found a pig [its my granddaughter favourite] what i ended up doing is installing the Linux whatsapp desktop app, and drag n'drop from that, [it is available in a flatpak for most Debian based distributions]

 

[Brickwizard]

addition
oh and if your using Facebook Messenger, then i have a desktop Linux app called Caprine, it connects to FB chat, but you don't get the rest of the rubbish on FB. again you can drag n'drop from it

 

[JohnJ]

with MSM you should be able to drag and drop from the messenger page to desktop, WhatsApp i found a pig [its my granddaughter favourite] what i ended up doing is installing the Linux whatsapp desktop app, and drag n'drop from that, [it is available in a flatpak for most Debian based distributions]

Thanks Brick. Got it. Cheers