iPhone Photo Albums Organizing by Date Imported to PC Not Date Taken/Created

[live4music]

So ever since I got my iPhone 15 Pro, ONLY photos taken by me and my iPhone are organized correctly (once imported to PC and put in a specific folder then put back on my iPhone). Photos and videos sent by people (even with iPhones), and even videos that I shoot, are ordered by the date they were added to my PC. I use a program called BulkFileChanger to correct this and it had been working until now. For whatever reason, it is no longer working solidly.

It still organizes some of the photos by the wrong date even when using the program. There’s no rhyme or reason to the photos that it’s not working with.

I have over 16,000 photos in my phone that are organized in specific folders: concerts, nature, architecture, etc. and I have to have solid organization to quickly find stuff not to mention I have OCD. I do NOT want to go to Android over this, but I’m out of ideas. I bet I’ve spent over a dozen hours trying everything imaginable to get it to work. I copied and pasted all my photos to a different drive (one that’s an SSD) and that’s what really screwed me bc it basically didn’t retain the data changes from bulkfilechanger at all, so now thousands of my photos are jumbled up. I’m trying not to freak out. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

I’m running windows 10. Other than that, everything else is up to date.

 

[Slartibart]

Photos and videos sent by people (even with iPhones)

For a while now iOS usually strips the metadata/EXIF when you share it using the Share Sheet or the Photos app directly to another app - if the meta data should be kept, the photo has to be added within whatever program to send it is used.
As default e.g. Whatsapp, as well as others, will compress the image you send AND it will strip the meta data. The only way to keep the meta data and full resolution in this scenario is to save the photos to Apple’s Files first (via the Share-Menu, I know, it’s confusing 🤪), and then use the Attach-symbol in WA to send them.

And to comfortably copy or even sync the internal folder structure with all photos incl. meta data to an external drive or to a computer consider getting FileBrowser (Pro) or FE FileExplorer on your iPhone.