Delay in photos showing within iPhones Internal Storage

newbie to the iphone. Why does it take so long for a photo to show up in the phone’s internal storage?  I shoot simple product

photos then transfer them to my Windows PC through a tether cable. I do this

almost immediately after the last shot; however, it will take a minutes, if not longer, for all

of the photos to show within the internal storage.  I'm using iphone 15 Pro, I don’t use iCloud or MS Photos and have Live turned off. Thanks in advance

Posted on Apr 3, 2024 12:28 PM

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Posted on Apr 3, 2024 1:55 PM

The photo optimizer takes some time to complete and file the new photos in the database. How are you transferring the photos? If you are using Windows Explorer, that is the wrong way. You need to follow these guidelines: Copying personal photos and videos from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer.

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Apr 3, 2024 2:45 PM in response to daringpanda

You are using it in a way Apple never intended it to be used. The image files you see are actually leaf elements in the photo database, and one reason you can’t delete them is doing so would corrupt the database. For what you are doing an iPhone is the wrong tool, unless you change your procedures to use it the way it was intended, such as syncing to iCloud and accessing the photos in iCloud for Windows, or following the other guidance in the link I provided.

Apr 3, 2024 2:38 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Thanks for your reply. I do really appreciate it. I use a photo editing/software managing software called ACDSee. and import my photos from there.


As an long-time Android user, I'm encountering issues that I never had before:


I would shoot being tethered to my PC with simply Window Explorer opened. I could see immediately the photo. With the delay and other files within the Internal Storage, this is impossible.


I never had used the import feature of ACDSee. Again, I used Windows Explorer to move the files from phone to computer. Importing feature my only, quick, solution at the moment.


During import, I have to rename the file to creation date. Unable to change the naming on the iPhone. Image1,2,3 mean nothing to me.


Once imported, I have to sort by details and keep only the 1:1 photos


Once imported, iPhone will not allow ACDSee to delete photos. This need to be done manually before the next shoot.


If I forget to turn off Live I have to delete the extra files as well.


The iphone has a image frame not photography intuitive. The bottom menu overlays the image so I'm finding my shoots are not correctly lined up and having to do a lot of cropping. Even with the grid turned on.


So far, this is the most unproductive photography equipment I've purchased in a long time. Looking more and more of upgrading my SLR would have been better. Or going back to the android

Apr 3, 2024 3:12 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Thanks again. Leaf elements I assume those are the AAE files. I've been able to delete those within Windows Explorer no problem. I don't think ACDSee see those files thus fails to download. I don't see your link. Using the iCloud as you suggest just seams silly when my photography studio and computer are no more than 5ft apart. So, taking a photo, sending it to the cloud to some unknown location and then having it send it back to me to download to my computer takes longer and not how photography works. Ideally, tethering is the recommended solution.

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