Settings - Photos - Transfer To Mac or PC - Automatic not working...

Hi,

I've always copied photo and video files from iPhone to my Windows PC's (Win10 using file explorer or Windows Import) without any issues using this setting:

Settings - Photos - Transfer To Mac or PC - Automatic

As expected, it would convert files from the High Efficiency Formats to compatible formats, and the transfer would run without any problems, as well as the reproduction of such transferred files.

Now with the new iPhone 14 Pro Max, it doesn't work anymore. I can't transfer files, let alone reproduce them.

The only way I can get the transfer to happen is to change the setting to:

Settings - Photos - Transfer To Mac or PC - Keep Original

This is obviously not optimal (well, at least for me) because then the files saved with High Efficiency Format will not display or play in Windows.

Then the option is to disable High Efficiency Formats on the iPhone... which presents another set of problems/limitations, such as not being able to use the highest resolution/fps for video and Slo-Mo recordings, and also excluding the option to enable certain features with photos such as Capture Outside of Frame and possibly it might interfere or actually deny access to the upcoming Deep Fusion feature.

So... my questions are:

Why is this "Automatic" conversion setting not working? Am I doing it wrong?

Does it affect everyone? Will this be fixed?

Thanks!

Mohsin Zulfiqar