Transferring Photos from iPhone to PC

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I'm just wondering if anyone has found a better method for this than me...

I use my phone camera quite a bit to take photos of stuff. eBay, receipts for work, and all sorts of other things. It's very useful to have them go straight into LR so I can crop, sharpen and then export (for eBay, email, or various other uses)

I had the LR app on my phone but it was rubbish. Often a photo just would not sync back to the desktop, and deleting it on the desktop (when I'd moved it/finished with it) never propagated back to the phone. It was the failure to sync that caused me to look for other options. Especially when doing eBay stuff, I just wanted to take a pic with my phone, then immediately have it on my desktop PC to fill out the listing.

Next I tried iCloud, adding the app to my PC. This works slightly better but still occasionally refuses to sync for anything up to an hour. The downside to this is you cannot move or delete files in the iCloud folder (from the PC) which is just stupid. I've tried deleting them on the phone, and this propagates back to the PC, but it doesn't always work and I'm now starting to get duplicate files of things I've deleted.

As you can imagine, both Apple and Adobe support are laughable for dealing with issues like this so I wondered if anyone had a better option. "Buy a Mac" isn't a solution for me, but any other help would be appreciated.
 
Try a different cloud provider like Google drive?

And my longer term solution wouldn't be "buy a Mac" but would rather be "don't buy an iPhone" :P

I have a Mac (actually more like 3 in my house) but it doesn't help as much as you think. iPhones aren't designed with power users in mind, it's the most frustrating experience. My missus still uses it and takes make pictures with it. It's a pain to deal with IMO.
 
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nandbytes said:
Try a different cloud provider like Google drive?
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Do your phone photos automatically get put into the Google drive though? I have Dropbox and you have to manually transfer one photo at a time into it. Can't batch move.
 
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Harlequin565 said:
Do your phone photos automatically get put into the Google drive though? I have Dropbox and you have to manually transfer one photo at a time into it. Can't batch move.
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apparently google photos/drive starts uploading all the photos she's taken when she opens the app. so just keep the app open for a while?
 
I transfer image files from iphone to pc using EaseUS MobiMover which is free. Works a treat ...
 
Not a full solution, but I find it far easier (with photos for the bay) to edit the photos on the phone in the Photos app (cropping, zooming etc) and then using the bay app to upload them to a listing.
 
I had this fun with a client. What apple has done with their media management is horrible. Now to the point. The best solution that I found was to login to icloud in a browser and download images in the batches of of up to a thousand (it won't let you any more - that's how clever they are for 2021!) If you can in any way ask iphone to set appropriate file names or metadata before you do that....
I even tried plugging in the phone straight to my mac and using Photos app. It just stalls after getting around 1,500.... What an utter junk. The cloud is the only way as far as I can see.
 
This is easier with an Android phone as Google Photos comes as standard and this allows you to access them via Google Photos on your desktop. I do nothing to achieve this, the photos I take on my Samsung phone are always available on my desktop (an iMac) when I want them.
 
john.margetts said:
This is easier with an Android phone as Google Photos comes as standard and this allows you to access them via Google Photos on your desktop. I do nothing to achieve this, the photos I take on my Samsung phone are always available on my desktop (an iMac) when I want them.
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Yep, I have to say that Google photos is very good when it comes to doing this kind of thing, and free until June 1st.
 
I have a similar problem. All my photos will normally be taken on cameras and transferred directly to LR on my PC. However, I sometimes wish to transfer images to my iPad which I use for Camera Club Zoom meetings. It has always been a problem and I have tried several methods. What I do now is to send an emails to myself with the photos attached. On my iPad, I can then save into photos and access from Zoom. I have to admit, I had none of these issues when using android or a Microsoft phone.

Dave
 
SFTPhotography said:
Why not just plug the iPhone in via the USB port on the PC. I did this on my father's iPhone XR. Win10 picked it up as a drive and downloaded them as if it was a memory card.
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I guess in this day & age I was expecting a simpler solution. My PC has iTunes on it which then decides to open up, download updates, and tell me all the things I need to do with my phone. I know there are further options for dealing with this but it turns something that should be simple into something less so.

I was wondering with the OP whether I had missed a trick and other iPhone users had a simpler solution.

I'll look into the Google Drive thing.

Thanks for all the replies folks.
 
SFTPhotography said:
Why not just plug the iPhone in via the USB port on the PC. I did this on my father's iPhone XR. Win10 picked it up as a drive and downloaded them as if it was a memory card.

Then just import to LR as need be
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Tried this works fine with my Microsoft or Android phone but did not work for my iPad or iPhone.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
Tried this works fine with my Microsoft or Android phone but did not work for my iPad or iPhone.

Dave
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My experience too. I strongly recommend Android over iOS devices to everyone
 
I don't get the problem. Take a picture on iPhone it goes into Photos. Open iCloud on the PC and the picture is there. Job done.

No need to connect the phone to the PC. No need to bother with iTunes. No need to use third party applications. Simples!!
 
Bristolian said:
I don't get the problem. Take a picture on iPhone it goes into Photos. Open iCloud on the PC and the picture is there. Job done.

No need to connect the phone to the PC. No need to bother with iTunes. No need to use third party applications. Simples!!
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That's what I said just from a different angle. The problem is that it doesn't work if you plug in, doesn't work if you do that and if you do this. You are lucky if opening a web based icloud is the first thing you think of. For many it happens to be the last with a lot of head-banging in between. That's the point. Then you just choose much simpler and more reliable services instead.
 
Bristolian said:
I don't get the problem. Take a picture on iPhone it goes into Photos. Open iCloud on the PC and the picture is there. Job done.
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Sadly, you can't delete from the PC. And deleting from the phone hasn't worked on 2 images. Every time I sync with LR it adds another copy of an image I deleted on my phone (that doesn't show in iCloud any more). I now have 4 copies of the same 2 images I can't delete! And so the head banging begins... The Apple solution is "turn off/on again", then if that doesn't work, reinstall the OS!
 
Ian,

I don't know how you've got your phone set up but I don't have any of those problems :) Mind you I don't have LR sync'd with anything so perhaps it's an Adobe problem?
 
Bristolian said:
Ian,

I don't know how you've got your phone set up but I don't have any of those problems :) Mind you I don't have LR sync'd with anything so perhaps it's an Adobe problem?
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Not Adobe. This is simply an issue between iCloud and the Windows PC. If you open the iCloud folder on your PC and try and delete an image. You can't. Lightroom isn't even open.
The Sync issue is the same. It can take anywhere from instant to 2 hrs for a phone image to appear in iCloud on the PC.

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It's a known thing. Apple says it messes with their Sync (on the help topics I found). How other companies can manage to allow a delete function to work on their cloud files and Apple can't is beyond me. Perhaps in 1985, but we're in the 20's! Oh wait... :)
 
Bristolian said:
I don't get the problem. Take a picture on iPhone it goes into Photos. Open iCloud on the PC and the picture is there. Job done.

No need to connect the phone to the PC. No need to bother with iTunes. No need to use third party applications. Simples!!
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i don't seem to get my pics from i phone going over to my MacBook
any help appreciated
 
My problem is I wish to send the images in the other direction; from a Windows PC to an iPad to use for a Zoom background.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
My problem is I wish to send the images in the other direction; from a Windows PC to an iPad to use for a Zoom background.

Dave
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Can't help Dave, Sorry, Everything in iCloud Photos on my iPhone, iPad and Windows PC sync automatically and fairly quickly (depending on the size of the image). I can drag images from Windows Explorer into iCloud Photos and once it has uploaded it syncs with the phone and pad too. That's how I get my Teams backgrounds onto my iPad.
 
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