Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,rec.photo.digital Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to copy a photo from Window to iOS without Apple restrictions Date: 8 Apr 2025 15:38:34 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net pM0vpoLraZVLktYZ7/edaQxD2QFZ/1YTAVcJu9af+kEtD1rO4Q X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:JgCjfy1cq1JBZHV+l8car8MhAg8= sha256:quivpvJsE04zpX8aB83ADZLQkfEruTB1Ou4y5ggSSvQ= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:183364 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:194212 rec.photo.digital:244282 Marion wrote: > On 7 Apr 2025 14:46:08 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote : > > > > Question to the OP ('Marion'): Have you tried a PTP (Picture Transfer > > Protocol) connection to the DCIM-equivalent of the iPhone? AFAIK, you > > can get photos from an iPhone that way. Unless their PTP implementation > > is 'unusual', you probably can also put photos on an iPhone that way. [...] > As for iOS, the problem is simply that Apple makes it very easy to get > files off the iPad onto the PC, but it's hard to put files onto the iPad. > > Specifically, if you connect the iOS device to the Windows 10 PC via USB & > if the necessary obligatory Apple drivers are already installed on the PC, > then the PC has no problem recognizing the iPad just as it sees an Android. > > The *difference* though is that with Android USB, you can read & write to > the DCIM directory in most situations (excluding misconfigured Androids). > > However, iOS doesn't work that way with USB file transfers. It's different. > With iOS, you can't *write* to the DCIM directory over a USB connection. This webpage says/implies that you *can* write to the/a DCIM *sub*folder, so if you only tried to write to the DCIM folder itself, you might want to re-try if you can write to its subfolder. Anyway, my main reason for responding is that I happened [1] to stumble on the (Apple) 'Apple Devices' Windows app. This app seems to be able to do what you want - copy from Windows to iPhone (etc.) - and can use an USB cable or a Wi-Fi connection. "Apple Devices User Guide Apple Devices Windows Transfer files between your Windows device and iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch" I didn't see a link to the app, but it can be easily found in the Microsoft Store by searching on 'Apple Devices'. (And no, you don't need a Microsoft Account to 'Get' the app. Don't know about *using* the app.) Hope this helps. [1] I was searching if one could use the Google/Samsung 'Quick Share' program to share from Windows to iPhone, but I don't think it can. I only saw a short confusing video showing using QuickShare to share from an Android smartphone to an iPhone. > So the problem *always* was getting the file from the Windows PC, to iOS. > See sig for the solution that I used to use to write to the iOS filesystem. > -- > If you dual boot the PC to Ubuntu, you actually have r/w access to all 3 > file systems simultaneously, WIndows, Linux & iOS, via the iFuse mechanism.