I have been importing trailcam videos on my IPad Air (3rd) and IPhone 11 via an SD card into Photos for a very long time. They are .AVI files. Since upgrading to iOS 17, it is unbearably slow. Apple, please look into this. Thank you.
iPad Air 3, iPadOS 17
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I have the same problem since iOS17, i am using a outdoorcam/naturecam and used to import the videos with the Apple-Lightning-to-SD-Card-Reader, which worked perfectly fine - until iOS17. It got painfully slow and AVIs aren't played correctly anymore. Awfully slow import from the SD Card and playback extremely choppy, posting on social media impossible also.
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It is painful! It takes almost an hour to copy about 15 videos or so
And then when trying to play or upload the videos is another issue.
Seriously trying to find an answer to this and found this thread
Hopefully apple will see this and fix it
Importing AVI file to Photos via SD Card Very slow
