Hi all, I use USB cable to connect my iphone15(iOS 18.1) and computer(ThinkPad Win10), copy all of photos from iphone to computer, but I saw all of my hidden photos show up on computer, I think hidden photos should not be shown on any device unless I actively unhide them and copy them. So please reproduce this issue and fix it, this is a huge bug.
iPhone 15, iOS 18
We are not Apple, we are just users like you. So we can't fix bugs.
Honestly, I don't see this as a bug. To me, it seems unreasonable to transfer things that are invisible-- after a transfer, I need to look to see if everything came out alright.
The "Hidden" attribute for a picture is just a check in a database-- it's not a property of the picture. A picture will appear hidden in Photos, because Photos sees the check and doesn't display the image.
Once a file is transferred , it's just a file, a packet of 1s and 0s. You have to use some app in order to see it as a picture. To appear invisible (oxymoron?) you'd have to be using a program that reads that check properly and applies it. The Hidden attribute is not a standard metadata field, so no program other than Photos would understand it.
If you would like to make suggestions to Apple, go here:
We are not Apple, we are just users like you. So we can't fix bugs.
Honestly, I don't see this as a bug. To me, it seems unreasonable to transfer things that are invisible-- after a transfer, I need to look to see if everything came out alright.
The "Hidden" attribute for a picture is just a check in a database-- it's not a property of the picture. A picture will appear hidden in Photos, because Photos sees the check and doesn't display the image.
Once a file is transferred , it's just a file, a packet of 1s and 0s. You have to use some app in order to see it as a picture. To appear invisible (oxymoron?) you'd have to be using a program that reads that check properly and applies it. The Hidden attribute is not a standard metadata field, so no program other than Photos would understand it.
If you would like to make suggestions to Apple, go here:
If you want to transfer your photos between your devices, so the hidden photos will remain hidden, sync the Photos Libraries with iCloud Photos. The hidden photos will be hidden iCloud as well. But I have no idea how iCloud for Windows will handle hidden photos, as my computers are Macs.
Hidden photos are displayed on the computer
