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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I'd be interested to know what method you use and how it works out.
I don't have anything apple related but my fiance has been using iPhones for some time and she absolutely HATES how difficult it is to get pictures off her iPhone and onto our NAS. Especially when live photos get involved.
I know when she had her iMac, she had to use the export function from the Mac. She is now PC so she has tried plugging her phone into her PC and it fails so freakin always.
But I think a fully updated iTunes is the way to go. Very curios as to how others do this.
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OK I think I figured out the problem and a workaround. I don't profess to be an expert in Mac so YMMV.
After messing around with Photos on my MacAir, and the photo import tool in windows 10, turns out a direct USB connection to my PC was actually the most simple for me. Preserves EXIF info, dates, and also lets me delete images from the iPhone to clear up space.
Except the connection to my wife's iPhone 7 kept dropping out after copying 10 photos or so. A problem when 350 are queued for transfer. Turns out it was the HEIC format of the photos. This setting was enabled in the Photos settings:
What Automatic does is make the iphone convert to jpeg as part of the transfer so I can only assume it was overwhelming the iPhone and dropping the connection. Changing this to original let me move the HEIC files over using File Explorer no problem.
Then I used a HEIC convert to get them all back to JPEG. This is where the date modified field gets set to the date you convert, but the "date taken" field is very much intact. Alternatively, just get a HEIC codec and work with HEIC natively (as limiting as support is)
We'll see if my iPhone 11 does the same thing - with a bigger processor maybe it does better. You can force the camera to shoot in jpeg but then you lose 4K video which is no bueno.
Another tip I'd pass on is to always move files sorting by the "name" field to ensure both the JPEG and the MOV file of the live photo are moved together.