Windows 10: Just Can't Get Photos off my iPhone!

I am having one hell of a time trying to efficiently copy 40gb of photos and videos off my iPhone and onto a Windows 10 machine. I'm an IT guy and I am honestly baffled at how ridiculous and to be honest, impossible this task seems to be.

The Windows Photos app is garbage. I select my iPhone in the Import from USB option, and it sits and thinks for minutes, before showing me "1 picture to import" and then the whole app hangs. Tried it several times on three different computers, three different cables, and two different phones. It just doesn't work. I've tried to use the Photos app for basic cataloging and photo manipulation in the past and it's all around crappy, so I'm not surprised it can't handle what should be a basic picture import.

Likewise, copying files using the Explorer method also doesn't acts janky. I'll drag the 105APPLE folder from my phone to a drive on my computer, it'll do maybe 30 or 40 files before just stopping without an error. The file copy box just disappears. The device isn't disconnected, because I can immediately go back into the Iphone and start copying again. When I try this, Windows Explorer tells me that there's file name conflicts for "850 files" when it only copied 40 of them. As I said, it's just janky. Does this on my high end desktop and my laptop, doesn't matter which phone.

So I'm stuck copying 40 or 50 files at a time from my phone to a folder on my computer. It's aggravating because I'm just trying to get files off my wife's phone to free up some space, what in any other situation for any other drive should be a 5 minute process, and I've been struggling with this for over 2 hours now. Note that I am not "MOVING" the files (that doesn't work at all, for some unknown reason, it just errors out, learned that very quickly). I'm COPYING the files.

No idea why this is so goddamn difficult. All I'm trying to do is copy photos from the Iphone to my computer and I simply can't do it without dicking around with it. I can move VMDKS around my SAN to different LUNs, remount them to different VMs, and clean up rogue snapshots faster than copying photos from a goddamn phone. Any thoughts? Any other programs to recommend that do this?

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I would like to troubleshoot my inability to import photos from iPhone to Windows 10. I am an advanced user struggling to find relevant help on the internet since most results are unusable masked adverts for paid third party software.

I want to use it the following way

1. connect iPhone via USB to my Windows 10 PC
   
2. open Microsoft "Photos" app
   
3. click in the upper right on import > add from the device over USB
   
4. select all photos and click import
   

4th step is where it fails, with no usable message.

• I have set the device as trusted on iPhone
  
• I mostly don't see it in My Computer, therefore I cannot just copy
  
• I tried uninstalling every driver and iTunes software
  
• Despite not being visible in Windows Explorer, iTunes can always access the contents with no issue
  
• it has a tiny moments when it starts working, but overall import fails sooner or later and never copies all 3k photos. Mostly MSPhotos don't show any content, just failure message, sometimes it shows it's content and acts as I can select what to import, but as described fails sooner or later
  
• iTunes can successfully copy entire phone.
  
  Other attempts
  
• I tried multiple free 3rd party SW, all of them either failed or seemed like to be usable only after buying their extended version
  
• I tried using iTunes for Syncing the Photos
  
  • I maybe don't know how to use it, or it is faulty too. But I've set the directory where my Photos should be synced, but sync seems to just backup the phone and creates tiny 'Photo Database file', but no photo actually gets copied onto PC.