JimRPhoto Loc: Raleigh NC

Does anyone know of an app for a Windows 11 PC, that will help transfer photos from a connected iPhone 11, organizing them in folders by date? Right now, using just the Windows OS, it puts all the photos in one place (of its choosing) in a continuous scroll. I would like to have them transfer into folders by date, and also have them save to the D drive, not the C drive. (D drive is a large capacity internal SSD specifically for photos.). Thank you!

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bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

What software do you have? Any Adobe stuff?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

You have control of all uploads, location and sorting in Win 11. Or, transfer the photos to one folder, then create other folders and sorting from there. It's all possible in Win 11 File Explorer. Here's a video that may be helpful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2L3o76pCk

Good luck,
Mark

CamB Loc: Juneau, Alaska

My computer and my phone are all synced in the cloud. I take a picture on the phone and it instantly shows in Photos on the computer. You might look at Syncing everything. It's sort of a pain to set it up but you only have to do it once.

SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

The easiest way, if the phone and PC are not connected, is to mail the picture to your e-mail and open/download it there.

JimRPhoto Loc: Raleigh NC

Hi Mark, and other UHHers. Thank you. Mark, I have been using the method in the YouTube video for years now, using the convention YYYY-MM-DD. All of these folders are in a photos folder on my D drive. That is not the problem. (When I manually upload photos from the SD card, I make up my new folders as I go.)

The problem is when you plug your iPhone 11 into the PC (with Windows 11) “it” just uploads all the photos in one continuous folder, just as you would see it on your iPhone. In the past, it would automatically sort into folders by date, but no more. So you are left with a jumble of photos, all uploaded into one huge folder, and not in the place you want it anyway. I was looking specifically for a way, when you plug the iPhone in to the connecting cord to the PC, to have it sort the photos into folders by date. The way it used to do on our older computer. Any thoughts on that? Thanks much to everyone. JimR

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I understand your dilemma. I might call, chat with Apple or if nearby, visit an Apple Store. It sounds as if the uploads are automatically transferring the images and not allowing you to direct the upload.

I simply email any photos on my iPhone 13 to myself and direct the images to my designated folders. I never connect my iPhone to my PC for transferring.

It works for me. I hope you find a method that is satisfactory.

Good luck,
Mark.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Long ago I downloaded an app called 'iCloud for Windows'. You use it on Windows and enter your iCloud user/password and you have access to whatever you have in iCloud. I use it on Win10. Have not tried it on 11. But it allows me to select photos from the cloud and all the albums you have set up on your phone.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Why not just download them into a folder and then in the explorer task bar, just sort by date. You can then just highlight a date range and move them to a specific folder.

jimpitt

Suggestion:
If you are really a serious photographer, or even a serious amateur, why in the world would you take photos on an iPhone and want to save them? Just fwd your "snapshots" from the phone to the grandkids and use your real camera for serious stuff.
Do you own a camera? If not, there are many "shirtpocket" compact quality cameras available that would produce considerably better results than an iPhone.

JimRPhoto Loc: Raleigh NC

Hello Jim. Yes, I own a Canon 5Div, and also several Olympus MFT camera bodies. They are all great. I have no problem at all with those photos or uploading them onto my computer. So to answer your question, I do use a “real camera” in fact, several. My question pertains only to uploading photos taken with an iPhone, as we don’t have our “real” cameras with us all the time. Thanks for your reply. JimR

YellowDog Loc: Gulf Coast near New Orleans

JimRPhoto:
This sounds like a difficult way to do it, i.e., transfer photos from an iPhone to a computer running on Win 11, but here goes....
I purchased from Amazon for $19.95 a Blanbok flash drive device. One end has a lightning plug and the other end has a standard USB plug. I read the instructions (more on that in a minute) and plugged the lightning end into my iPhone. Within about 5 minutes or so it had copied some 2,000 photos from my iPhone, i.e., it did not download the originals. They were left on the iPhone. Then it gave me the choice of rearranging them by name, date, etc. I left them like they were on the phone. Plugged the little device into a USB portal on my HP computer and within minutes it had copied the 2,000 photos into a folder on my computer. I have the "fun job" now of sorting by topic and moving these photos to other folders.

Now the bad news........ The translation from Chinese to English in their instruction booklet is not just bad -- It is AWFUL. Whoever wrote the instructions left off steps. So, I got a cup of coffee and began to tinker with the thing. Finally, I figured out what to do and hand wrote my own instructions for next time. Again, that was the only bad part in the deal.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

I use this "Imazing" app. See if it does what you want. I think it's great and use it all the time..

https://imazing.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAzJOtBhALEiwAtwj8trNN9xZvudXi2at6L3OBAFBFtGHx8nK-gX6IZ7KF8D3Nd7jtn2MugRoCDfkQAvD_BwE

brentrh Loc: Deltona, FL

to get photos off my iPhone email to my self. open on computer place them in any folder i choose.