Windows 10: Syncing iPhone photos from iCloud to PC

Photos on my iPhone sync to my iCloud account, my iPad and to my PC Windows 10. Since I reinstalled Windows, I can no longer access the newest photos. No problems accessing those photos that were taken before the re-install. My iPad syncs all photos, plenty of room in my iCloud account. I have signed out of iCloud and re-signed in

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syncing images to pc & back to iphone

Hey there I have a bit of a dilemma. I want to do this:

1. sync images from my iphone to my pc
2. run jpegmini on the images that are now on my pc from my phone
3. replace the existing images on the iphone and icloud with the new smaller compressed images to save space and avoid cloud conflicts with the same files with different file sizes

Surely this probably isn't as straight-forward as those steps above, right? Any feedback on what to do differently than the above or should I just stick with the above?

 

Photos sync issue on iPhone to Computer.

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

• Which application are you using to sync the images in your iPhone with your computer?
  

If you are using iCloud to sync your photos between your iPhone and Computer, after the photos get synced, the files will be stored on iCloud. Once you edit or make changes to the photos, it will change on other devices as well. If you delete the photos
on one device, it will be deleted from iCloud and if you want to get back the photos, you can restore it from recently deleted album within 30 days.

For more information I would suggest you to refer the articles to
Delete photos on your iPhone,
iCloud: Delete photos and videos to save storage on iCloud and check if it helps you.

You may also refer
Manage your iCloud storage for details that could prove itself useful.

Regards,

Noor Azam S

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

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.