In the last year or so I've noticed that when I copy a month's worth of photos from an iPhone to a PC there will be 5-10% of them that are pictures yet have a .MOV extension or a video with a .JPG/.HEIC extension. If you manually rename the file with the correct extension the image or video is fine.
I've also noticed that the entire file names of photos will change from one day to the next. For example I could copy off this past August's worth of pictures and videos today, and then do it again next week and a picture that is IMG_3050 may be IMG_3039 next week.
This is very annoying and I'm worried there's other data corruption or missed images when backing up my family's photos for long term archive storage. I've been manually copying from the family iPhones like this for well over 10 years and it's just been in the past year with iOS 18 I've noticed this happening. It's happening on my 15Pro, wife's 15Pro, and two daughters with 14Pro and 13Pro on all the different iOS releases, we keep the phones up to date.
EDITED TO ADD: It was happening last year with iOS 17, I made a thread about it and no one replied.
I've also noticed that the entire file names of photos will change from one day to the next. For example I could copy off this past August's worth of pictures and videos today, and then do it again next week and a picture that is IMG_3050 may be IMG_3039 next week.
This is very annoying and I'm worried there's other data corruption or missed images when backing up my family's photos for long term archive storage. I've been manually copying from the family iPhones like this for well over 10 years and it's just been in the past year with iOS 18 I've noticed this happening. It's happening on my 15Pro, wife's 15Pro, and two daughters with 14Pro and 13Pro on all the different iOS releases, we keep the phones up to date.
EDITED TO ADD: It was happening last year with iOS 17, I made a thread about it and no one replied.
