OK - I am getting abit stressed in not finding a way to export a large number photos and videos from my iphone 14 to ANY computer that is not running the latest Mac OS or using the cloud. How can I transfer my camera filea to a linux or windows machine? I have tried copying from explorer (failed with “catastrophic failure”) and with itunes (have a backup but no actual files anywhere).
Does anyone have a simple solution to do this? Without buying an Apple computer ….
Had the same issue and wrote a blog article about it. A bit dated but it should still work (Linux):<p><a href="https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/access-and-recover-files-from-an-iphone-on-linux/" rel="nofollow">https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/access-and-recover-files-fr...</a>
If your photos are stored locally, and you're using Windows - you can just plug it in via USB and Windows will recognize it as a camera storage. Your phone will probably prompt you to allow access. Be careful, though, if your photos are stored in iCloud Photo Library - they will be stored locally as smaller versions of themselves, so you won't be getting the originals. If that's the case, use iCloud for Windows and opt in the Photos bit. You can then copy the originals from there. It's slow but it works.
I tried most of these apps, LANdrop was the best so far, and also it reserves the original image with no compression or changing meta data.<p>Edit: I tried it on all platforms, linux, windows, android, and iOS. You would need both connected to the same lan.
I use owl files to transfer to windows 11 over internal wifi<p><a href="https://www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/" rel="nofollow">https://www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/</a><p>The kicker is you have to create a local user account
lusrmgr.msc<p>then when you share the folder, give that person full permissions and security as specified here<p><a href="https://www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/help/windows/help_windows.html?section=settings_win11" rel="nofollow">https://www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/help/windows/help_windows.ht...</a>
Linux should be able to port over files over USB, FTP or local lan using apps already mentioned. I think I've previously used Dolphin over USB and FTP (server on iphone) for backups.
AFAICT you should be able to do this with a regular Windows 10 computer.<p>Docs:<p><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/import-photos-and-videos-from-an-iphone-to-pc-2e4e4db4-4c3d-041c-b88f-3ee4358dd95e" rel="nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/import-photos-an...</a><p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/120267" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/en-us/120267</a> (see the section <i>Import to your Windows PC</i>)