

IPhone photos not showing up on PC is annoying to people who expect to transfer their pictures to computer in an easy and convenient way, which is currently not available between different operating systems. H) echo "$0 filename(s)" exit 0 ĭir=$(stat -f "%SB" -t "%Y-%m" $file) # %S.7 Ways to Fix iPhone Photos Not Showing Up on PC (Windows 10/11) ``` !/bin/bash sortphotos Will move photos into output directory and sorts by folders named by "Year-Month" ``` !/bin/sh origdate Copies EXIF "Date and Time (Original)" field value into Creation DateĭATE= exif -t "Date and Time (Original)" $f | grep Value | awk -F": " '' echo "Original date: $DATE"ĭATE= date -j -f "%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S" "$DATE" +"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S" echo "Converted date: $DATE" WARNING: JPEG and HEIC formats are different and may loose the quality of the photoĬonvert all HEIC files into JPEG with ImageMagick: The solution offered within the APPLE forum is to use a photo application _not_ FINDER to sort these files.that just happen to be pictures. When we look at files from ICloud the creation date displayed is the date of the download. When we look at the file in FINDER that is copied (not from icloud) it displays the correct date

When the file is on other apple devices it displays the correct date When the file is on a phone, it displays the correct date Hence, the customer is wrong to expect that when downloading a file (that just happens to be a photo) from icloud that the natural intuitive expectation that the creation date of the file (photo) is preserved and used as the Finder Creation Date is just plain wrong since the specification was not written this way.īalderdash! (always wanted to use this word) This notion, and correct expectation is of course deemed wrong by those all knowing since we are not smart enough to understand that this is a specification issue - that the expectation of operation does not align with the specification.

We are told by the wizards of all things Apple that we are wrong to expect that FINDER would display a FILE's creation date properly, if the file is a photo downloaded from Icloud. Downloading photos from icloud presents a philosophical challenge.
