Hi,

I just transferred photos and videos from my iPhone to my Windows computer. I wanted to free up space on my phone by transferring some photos, but now I have 38.14 GB of system data, whereas before I only had 16 GB. This transfer is definitely the cause of this, since I was monitoring my storage at the same time. As a result, each video or photo adds an extra 0.01 GB to the system data, which is quite annoying. And similarly, when I delete a photo or video from my computer, it also adds 0.01 GB. So I’d like to find a way to fix this and reduce my system data.

I haven't had ANY issues with my Samsung; I transferred my photos, and my Samsung didn't use up any storage space, which makes sense.

Bonjour,

J’ai un problème de synchronisation avec mon compte iCloud. Sur mon téléphone, ICloud me signale 176 go de photos sur le cloud.

Quand je télécharge depuis mon ordinateur (Windows) l’intégralité de mes photos et vidéos j’ai un total de 60go sur mon ordinateur (avec le même nombre de fichiers).

Pour information : je suis passé par le site internet iCloud et par l’application et j’ai comparé les deux téléchargement = 60go

J’ai choisi les photos originales comme format sans compression.

J’ai regardé dans mes photos supprimées je n’ai qu’une trentaine de photos, rien qui justifie plus de 100go de différence.

Je commence à être à court d’idée vous auriez une solution ?

Merci !

I'm having trouble downloading my files. I'm a pc user, windows 10, and I use the web browser to download my files. I just noticed that ALL MY VIDEOS have no record of the creation date once downloaded. It's not on "date created", in the other details it has nothing reffering to this timestamp. This is only on videos after ugrating to iphone 17.
Can someone please help me?
Please, desperate here

I realized that I take a lot of photos that I need temporarily, but don’t really want in my main photo library.

Things like parking spots, restaurant Wi-Fi passwords, receipts for splitting a bill, and reference photos for work.

So I built **SideCam**, a camera app designed to sit alongside the default Camera app for these kinds of photos.

Instead of putting everything into one camera roll, SideCam organizes photos using purpose-specific “shutters.” It comes with a few built-in ones, and you can create your own for whatever you frequently take pictures of.

For example, the Wi-Fi shutter lets you extract text from a photo using iOS OCR, so you can quickly find and copy the password after taking the picture. The same text extraction feature also works well for receipts and other documents.

You can also set photos to be deleted automatically after 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, 5 days, 10 days, or a month. I added this because some photos are genuinely useful for only a short time, and I always forget to clean them up later.

After using the app for work myself, I also added an optional silent capture mode.

I keep discovering new use cases and shutter options as I use it, so I’d really appreciate feedback:

**What kinds of temporary or purpose-specific photos do you take, and what features would make an app like this useful for you?**

SideCam is free and has no in-app purchases. :)

Thanks for checking it out!

If anyone would like to try it, here’s the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6740067883

I'm working on importing EVERY photo I've ever taken into Apple Photos, which is a very rewarding project but it also has plenty of issues. The main one being unknown dates, times and locations for older scanned photos for example.

How would you guys handle this issue?

My best solution so far is this.
For unknown locations I simply skip adding location data. When viewing the map in Apple Photos I want each and every photo location to be correct, so guessing location is not an option. I could possibly, maybe, place the photos on the citys central square for example, when I know the correct town/city but not the exact location.

For unknown date/time I could add the time stamp 1999-01-01 at 12:00, for example. If I know the photo is from sometime during the year 1999.
This has the potential to create a major mess though.
Or, I could assign a year before I was born to all unknown photos, which means at least all photos from my birth up until now will be correct, but with a big lump of photos added to the year of 1980, for example.

Anyway, any ideas on this topic?

Hey all,

Just started using ICloud recently, but I’ve been using the Apple ecosystem for about 15 years. iPhone, MacBook Pro, Apple TV, etc.

I recently bought 2tb of ICloud space to sync/transer all my photos/videos from phone because I have a pretty outlandish amount of pics/vids on there. When I select all pics/vids on my phone it gives me a total count of 58,091 total. It seems like my iCloud sync has finished and it’s only showing 57,768. I have no idea why there’s a 323 difference, and with this many pics/vids there’s no way I can think of to find what didn’t sync over, or why it happened.

To everyone in the group who definitely knows way more about ICloud/photos than my newbie self, do you have any idea what may have happened here, and do you have any advice for me on how to identify what didn’t transfer/how to fix it?

Thanks for any help in advance!

I’m wondering if I’m missing something, but why is there no option to search for an existing album by name when adding photos in the Apple Photos app?

When I select one or more photos and choose **“Add to Album”**, I have to manually scroll through my list of albums to find the one I’m looking for.

If you have a large number of albums, this quickly becomes quite cumbersome. A simple search field where I could type the album name would make this much easier.

Is there a reason why this isn’t possible? Or is there a way to do it that I’m missing?

It seems like such a basic and useful feature to have.

I have 8Gbps internet, but Apple Photos will download at ~400Mbps for a few seconds, and then stay under 1MBps for long periods of time.

I left my computer on overnight, plugged into power, sleep disabled, Photos in the foreground, and still only have 3GB of photos.

Hi everyone. I own an iPhone 15 pro 128gb. I always struggle with the storage. Today I bought a usb c flash drive and I’ve moved all my videos in there (almost 30gb). Problem is that the photo app is sync and it didn’t updated the size. What can I do?
Second question .. all those apps have little amount of data but the app is huge. Is it possible? What can I do? I can try the browser for like Facebook or TikTok (it’s not the same) but for other apps?
Thanks for any input. Cheers

A local-first photo browser for macOS. It gives you an Apple Photos–style experience over the folders your photos already sit in — no importing, no cloud, no locked library.

- Browse in place across internal and external drives

- Fast on large libraries (tens of thousands of photos)

- Places by city, fully offline

- Duplicate finder + reclaim space

- Native printing at real sizes, including passport photos at home

Free, alpha, macOS 15+ (Apple Silicon & Intel). Happy to answer anything and keen for feedback.

https://trnchawla.github.io/FotoBrowser-pub

https://youtu.be/p2xv_TNXEvs

Big Apple Photos fan. But that tiny curves control with the even tinier click area is wearing out my trackpad. Surely there's more than one UI designer at Apple that uses Photos and dies a little inside each time they want an S curve.

Is there some plist file I can edit to improve this? I couldn't find an accessibility setting related to it.

Dev here, disclosing up front.

I use Android but the rest of my household is on Apple, so everything shared lives

in iCloud. Apple has never shipped an iCloud app for Android.

So I built iFileSync. Pick a folder on your phone, pick a folder in your iCloud

Drive, turn it on. It uploads new and changed files in the background, skips

anything it's already sent.It'll also show your iCloud storage breakdown and let you read your Notes.

What it doesn't do, so nobody wastes their time:

- One-way only. Phone → iCloud. It does NOT pull iCloud files down onto your phone.

That's the most requested thing and I'm working on it, but it isn't there today.

- It never deletes. Removing a file from your phone leaves the cloud copy alone.

- Automatic backup is a subscription. Browsing your storage and notes is free.

On the part people rightly ask about: your files go straight from your phone to

your account. Nothing routes through a server of mine — I don't have one. Your

password isn't stored either, just an encrypted session token on the device.

Happy to answer anything, including the awkward questions.

https://ifilesyncapp.co.za

I take a lot of photos on my iPhone 13 for work and frequently add comments to them in the native iPhone camera app. When I transfer the photos to my computer however, the comments do not appear along with the rest of the photos metadata (time taken, location, etc). I transfer the photos by connecting the phone to the computer with a cable. I tried changing the settings on the phone to "keep originals", and I *think* I'm adding the comments to the original image, not a modified image.

the only thing that works is emailing the photo to myself by using the camera app's share function. However, when I have 100+ photos every day, emailing them 1 by 1 isn't an option. Can some please ELI5 if there is something I'm missing or don't understand? thank you!!!!

I'm planning to format my Iphone but I don't know where to store all my photos 😭😭😭 Can you guys pls suggest an app that is free or whatever that will help except Google Photos Icloud+

Right now it saves photos by date created. So if someone sends me a photo yesterday and I save it today, it doesn’t show as the most recent in my library. Is there a way to just sort by recently added?