Photo snafu
I purchased an iPhone 14 last Autumn and after looking at various ways to transfer everything from my ancient android phone (Samsung S8+ ) to the new phone, decided to follow Appleâs recommendation and use their âMove to IOSâ app for that job.
The process unfolded at a glacial pace and at times I thought it had stalled completely but I just left it on and stopped watching it.
It finally appeared to âcompleteâ the move. At first things appeared to be OK, numerous âappsâ on the iPhone had tiny arrows next to them, indicating that in order to work they needed to be âre-downloadedâ to my new iPhoneâŚwhich didnât surprise me.
BUTâŚsome time later - when I eventually opened the photos âgalleryâ app, things were a total mess! There had been around 2300 photos on the Samsung, (dating back almost 5 years)âŚbut when I explored the âgalleryâ on the iPhone, I found that the photos up to around the middle of 2023 transferred correctly and - most importantly - had the correct date and other information in the XIF data, butâŚEVERY SINGLE ONE of the remaining 1200 or so photos that were transferred is dated âAugust 10â, 2023.
Had I noticed this right away I would have wiped everything and tried againâŚand if that hadnât worked I wouldâve looked into other methods of photo transfer.
BUTâŚI spent too much time installing new apps (and taking numerous pictures
) that this option now seems too onerous to undertake.
Is there ANY way I could âfixâ this snafu?
All the photos that transferred without their
proper XIF data are in the correct order but no longer have the correct date.
As I often use my gallery to see where I was on a certain date, this is certainly making things a bit difficult for that!
ANY ideas or help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Philip
I purchased an iPhone 14 last Autumn and after looking at various ways to transfer everything from my ancient android phone (Samsung S8+ ) to the new phone, decided to follow Appleâs recommendation and use their âMove to IOSâ app for that job.
The process unfolded at a glacial pace and at times I thought it had stalled completely but I just left it on and stopped watching it.
It finally appeared to âcompleteâ the move. At first things appeared to be OK, numerous âappsâ on the iPhone had tiny arrows next to them, indicating that in order to work they needed to be âre-downloadedâ to my new iPhoneâŚwhich didnât surprise me.
BUTâŚsome time later - when I eventually opened the photos âgalleryâ app, things were a total mess! There had been around 2300 photos on the Samsung, (dating back almost 5 years)âŚbut when I explored the âgalleryâ on the iPhone, I found that the photos up to around the middle of 2023 transferred correctly and - most importantly - had the correct date and other information in the XIF data, butâŚEVERY SINGLE ONE of the remaining 1200 or so photos that were transferred is dated âAugust 10â, 2023.
Had I noticed this right away I would have wiped everything and tried againâŚand if that hadnât worked I wouldâve looked into other methods of photo transfer.
BUTâŚI spent too much time installing new apps (and taking numerous pictures
) that this option now seems too onerous to undertake. Is there ANY way I could âfixâ this snafu?
All the photos that transferred without their
proper XIF data are in the correct order but no longer have the correct date.
As I often use my gallery to see where I was on a certain date, this is certainly making things a bit difficult for that!
ANY ideas or help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Philip
