PhotoSync – transfer photos 4+

Worth every penny

There is an incredible amount of nuance that admittedly most people won’t care about when backing up photos. I do and this developer does too. This app with the latest few releases is the perfect backup tool. You can create a nearly IDENTICAL backup of your phone’s photo database. Complete with edited/nonedited/both backups. Backing up the custom AEE files. And client side encryption? It’s a lot more stable than before too. Honestly, this is one of the best examples of an application done right. Most photo backup apps just copy the .heic file and don’t care about the wealth of information they leave behind in the Apple photos app. I just finished backing up 20k Live Photos and 4K videos. Accounting for the .mov, .aee, .xmp side car files and edited/nonedited copies, there’s roughly 70k files on my local nas! Pretty much every aspect of apple photos is now safe on locally owned hardware.

Edit: a request - is it possible to sync the OCR data and bounding boxes of photos? For example if I search for text there is INSTANTLY results in the photos app so that has to be a readable index somewhere.

Developer Response ,

Thanks a lot for the positive feedback!
Regarding your question: There is no OCR metadata embedded in the photos themselves. The Photos app analyzes the photos upon import using AI text recognition and stores the extracted text in the iOS Photo Library database, making it searchable.
For in depth support please contact support@photosync-app.com. We are happy to help!

Backwards photo order? + Some albums not showing up? Help!

I’m currently transferring all my photos/videos from iPhone to iPhone (this app is the method I chose to transfer all my photos/videos over after I got my iCloud account stolen). Everything seems to be working great—I can see my photos and videos in full res, I can see the location/time data, and live photos are showing up perfectly! However, everything in the Recents album is showing up chronologically backwards… Instead of the most recent being at the bottom of the album, it is at the very top, which is so inconvenient for a long time Apple user… Is there any way I can fix this? Also, the albums other than “Recents” and “Favorites” don’t seem to be transferring over. For example, I don’t see my Snapchat album or my Instagram album that I have on my original iPhone. The pictures saved from these different apps are supposed to show “Saved from Snapchat,” “Saved from Instagram,” etc.“ but the pictures don’t show that with the transfer. If there is any way I can fix this, this app would be super helpful. Please let me know if there’s a solution to these or if the solutions can be included in the next update! If so, I’ll update my review to 5 stars!!! Please and thank you!!!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your feedback.
1) As PhotoSync's main purpose it to transfer photos/videos we think it makes sense to have the newest photos/videos listed first. However, you can of course change the sort order. To do so please open the PhotoSync settings. Then tap "Display Options" and then "Sort Order" and select "Oldest First"
2) The iOS Photo Library is organised in a way that all photos/videos are stored in "Recents". User albums (e.g. "Saved from Snapchat") contain only references to the original in "Recents". If you want PhotoSync to create user albums when transferring from "Recents", please perform the following steps on the sending device:
a) Open the PhotoSync settings and tap "Configure" and then "Phone/Tablet" and enable "Keep album structure".

If you have any more questions, please write a quick mail to support@photosync-app.com. We are happy to help! By mail we can answer much quicker and also more detailed than here in the review section of the AppStore, which is not really suited for support.

Works better than i expected!

TLDR: almost 20k pics/screenshots/vids of ~370 GB transferred perfectly keeping all metadata.

I transferred over all ~5,500 of my photos & videos in a few hours to my NAS device all at their original quality. It was about 120 GB worth of stuff! (I shoot in ProRaw and 1080p60) I’m currently getting my wife’s ~13,000 photos & videos transferred in original quality now (PLENTY of screenshots but mostly non-ProRaw and 1080p30 videos) and it’s about 190 GB. It seemingly got corrupted with hers because it started transferring everything over very fast (about 5 pictures in a second) but would say 0.0% complete for each one instead of actually showing progress. I looked at the NAS and it had a bunch of .aae files (the “edited” versions) but wasn’t transferring the original. I fixed it in the app and now it’s working! The best part is all of the original metadata seems to be preserved. Down to the type of device used, its lens (e.g. wide for iPhone 12 Pro). Great app and worth it!