Windows 10: Photos app is importing iPhone photos with incorrect date and time

I recently saw a message in the Photos app that MS was making some changes to the app. Today I launched the app and a message I had never seen before asked me if I wish to keep some data that was not being used or delete it. I clicked on 'keep it' and then tried to import about 800 photos from my iPhone and the app has made a complete mess of them. Every photo that I checked has the wrong date and time. It's not just being shown incorrectly in the app, it has been imported incorrectly and the metadata has been modified to be wrong. This has never happened before.Luckily the app didn't even try

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iPhone Photos import to Windows 10 PC not working

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.
    

 

Problem importing photos from my iPhone

Re: Windows 10 Photos:

Whenever I start the photos app to import my pictures it has difficulty finding and connecting to the iPhone. Usually after 3-4 tries it will find the phone and I can begin importing. After a few seconds it aborts with a message that say, "something went wrong".

Windows is up to date, iTunes is up to date, and the iPhone is up to date and I just tried a different lightening cable.
Ideas on how to fix this?

 

Photos App Freeze during IPhone Photo Import

Every time I attempt to import photos from IPhone X with Windows Photos App, it begins the "Looking for new photos and videos" screen, reaches the total number of photos and videos, then freezes. I have current version of windows, current version of IPhone
software, the app is up to date, I have tried on multiple computers, and I have restarted the phone. What can be done to solve this problem? I have dealt with various issues with the Photos app over the years, but have been unable to overcome it this time.