I used the standard Windows 10 Photos app. Today was the first time I did a photo import. I then changed Settings > Camera > Formats to Most Compatible (which is JPG). I had a bear of a time getting about 500 photos off of the phone in late November, but as I mentioned before I used iMazing to extract them all into a folder. I got my iPhone 11 in late Sept - and did not even notice or bother to check that High Efficiency was turned on. That is when it seemed Apple forced everyone to use the High Efficiency (.heic) photo format. It was the same problem I had in iOS 12 with my iPhone 8.
I had a heck of a time importing photos directly connected to my PC. I have solved the problem - at least in my case. I'm glad I had iMazing but you shouldn't be required to have a $40 program to make this work. So it seems like the camera import function in Windows is broken right now, possibly because I had the HEIC format turned on and not the most compatible JPG format. And then put each of those groups into a folder on my PC. I was able to go to each of those months and select all photos and click Export. Using this utility I saw my recent photos grouped into months - Sept, Oct Nov. What saved me was the fact that I own the "iPhone Swiss Army Knife" an application called Imazing (available for Windows and Mac) It's about $40, but I got like a Black Friday week special. I even tried manually copying the photos using the built in Windows File explorer. Anyway today both Fast Stone and Photos failed. What I have been using is a piece of freeware for Windows called Fast Stone Image Viewer. I haven't been a big fan of the Windows 10 Photos app as it has given me problems in the past. Granted I was trying to import about 600 pictures / videos which added up to about 1.5 GB. Today was the first time I tried to Import using my new iPhone 11. I also changed the picture saving format on the iPhone (Settings > Camera back to JPG.
#Apple photos for windows computer free#
I was able to get some photos off of the iPhone back in Oct 2018 and then use a free converter put out by the folks at iMazing to get them into JPG format. The iPhone starting saving pictures in Apple's new high efficiency format. I had no problem importing pictures into Windows with my iPhone 8, although I ran into a little hiccup when iOS 12 came out.
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