Comments on: What to Do if You Can’t Transfer Photos From iPhone to Windows PC

By: SHAHIN RAFII T.

SHAHIN RAFII T. — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 04:36:32 +0000

very informative. thank you

By: Stenya

Stenya — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 03:48:44 +0000

How to I “unsync” everything from everywhere except my iPhone and iCloud? And how do I removed my info from devices that aren’t mine and I have no access to? Google, devices, everything. I only use one gmail address and my iPhone 13. No other devices, ever and the constant sync, share, automatically having all my info everywhere bothers me because of the security part-having my iPhone broken into or alternately having my info on devices that aren’t mine. Everytime I see mention of ‘my devices’ I wonder if that’s generic or there is once more another’s device with my info.

Thank you.

By: Asha K N

Asha K N — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:45:18 +0000

I have deleted iTunes app from my iPhone thinking that I may not need it ever in future. Is it necessary to have it to transffer all the photos from iPhone to the PC?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:46:40 +0000

Using Windows Explorer on Windows 10 to move photos off your iphone is painstaking. It can take several attempts just to move ONE folder but Windows explorer just can’t move the 5000 photos or if it does the copies remain on the iphone, so you have to do it all over again.

By: rrw

rrw — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:06:37 +0000

copying photos from iphone 8 to pc running windows 8.1 – using windows file explorer. Problem was that after some files were copied it would hang, often on a movie file. After much research and experimenting I found that if I only copied say 10-12 files at at time it always works.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:07:39 +0000

I have gotton to the point Its says full & no room to take pictures I get a message something is wrong, but won’t explain what’s wrong I can’t any pictures off, Apple CEO not impressed with you, I have videos on there, I have tried One drive * re downloaded Apple Itunes neither worked, ready to scream my head off, nobody has Apple products in my house no, is a no, I have over three thousand pictures on my phone, NO its not funny, it ll not get them off Its driving me, crazy, I use my camera to take pictures of my school work I do on my website I do my subjects, I don’t have another apple device anymore, I am thinking of taking it to a computer store to get my phone & phone looked at why I can’t get the pictures off my phone I don’t know. Apple u caused a real headache of a simple thing,
sicnerly,
Jessica Montaperto.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:01:16 +0000

I have gotton to the point I have no room on Iphone to take pictures on it, I

By: Mar

Mar — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:18:58 +0000

Such a simple solution fixed my headache of a problem. Thank you so much. I appreciate you.

By: Jodi Sharman

Jodi Sharman — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:09:42 +0000

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This is so helpful!

By: Mary Ann K Redding

Mary Ann K Redding — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:30:35 +0000

Thank you for your complete guide information. I will places this in my references guide go to files.

By: LC

LC — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:37:23 +0000

Thank you for this article! What a lifesaver! No matter what I tried I could not get my photos and videos to transfer from my iphone to my PC. But the note at the very top of this article saved me:

“Change Photo app setting for Transfer to Mac or PC to Keep Originals”

Worked like a charm!

By: Ana

Ana — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:24:00 +0000

Thank you!!
I was not able to transfer photos, with my device I’ve change to Keep originals and activated Home sharing and it finally worked!
Too shame that iPhone is not so user friendly…

By: decio

decio — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:35:48 +0000

thankk you very much!

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:19:37 +0000

Changing the autolock to ‘never’ and the photo app to ‘keep originals’ did the trick for me. Thank you!!

By: Varun

Varun — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:36:58 +0000

Hi Dan

I found an interesting fix here and I have tried every trick in the book, but it did not work with Windows photo app. The app just used to attempt to import and then fail abruptly.

As it turns out Apple turns off the photo service to conserve resources. The trick here is to leave the iPhone photo app running in the foreground in addition to setting the screen lock timeout to never.

Here is the original answer in the MS forums
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/iphone-photo-import-failure-something-went-wrong/32e07d0d-8b9f-4014-b6b2-ba57ba243b6f

Best regards
Varun

By: George Karr

George Karr — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:06:09 +0000

I tried 50 things but finally all I did was set the option in Photos settings to Keep Originals and it worked like a charm. thanks!!!

By: Cynthia Kauffman

Cynthia Kauffman — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:27:39 +0000

I could not get my photos to download and thanks to this article I could. I would love it if you had a series of how to do things. I tried several options and actually locked my computer up before this article. Thanks so much!

By: RRas

RRas — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:47:33 +0000

In reply to shaz. I also am having this exact problem. I tried turning "Auto-Lock" to never, and that seemed to help, but not on large transfers. So frustrating.

By: JILL

JILL — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 23:17:29 +0000

None of this works for me. I’ve done everything very carefully. I can’t even copy the photos from my phone, i get an error message when I paste them in the new folder. The problem is I think the HEIC format that can’t be ready properly by Windows. The Photos app imports some of them, and then gets stuck and I try to bypas the photos that won’t come in but this time it means I have to bypass 400 photos I took last month. I think the only thing to do is to pay for iCloud and download from there. I believe they block usage if you don’t pay them the fees.

By: Leticia

Leticia — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:04:10 +0000

In reply to Rivers. Thank you sir! This did work for me! I could not upload a whole month of photos. They were on my iphone 7 but photos app Windows 10 PC did not see the photos until I changed those two settings on my phone. THANKS!