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What is the best way for sharing iPhone photos for creating yearly family photo books?

Exporting photos out of iTunes or iCloud is cumbersome on a PC:

  • iPhone photos are hard to sort in a folder due to their "unchangeable" default naming convention of "IMG_xxxx" -- and different photos can have the same file name causing conflicts.
  • file selection is tedious and with one wrong click you can lose your selections and have to start over.
  • downloads can take a long time and fail.
  • native file format is lost during export.
  • extra video files are created and must be deleted.


What is the easiest way to "share" iPhone photos of family yearly for creating a photo book (and be able to review the iPhone photos on a large PC display before sharing)?


Thanks in advance!


-Paul

Posted on Jan 4, 2023 7:30 AM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2023 1:58 PM

From what I have learned, it is best to create a yearly album on your iPhone of your best family photos, then share the album with the person making the photo book. They can then download the photos they want to use in the photo book. Is there any easier way?

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Jan 25, 2023 1:39 PM in response to ninehundro

UPDATE: It seems like manually making a yearly photo album in the Photos App and sharing it, or setting up the Photos App to automatically recognize family members and sharing all photos of family members in the last year is the way to go.


NOTE: Using an iCloud link "share" enables you to share full quality original iPhone photos.


Does anyone have a better way or anything to add?

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What is the best way for sharing iPhone photos for creating yearly family photo books?

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