Is there a good way to transfer files between iPhone and Windows PC?

[Bombama]

I switched to Iphone couple months ago and not planning to switch back. And still haven't found out a decent way to manage files between devices at home.

_{I understand that there are people who sent 3 files during the life time and all of them were jpgs. They're happy with what they have but pls, no need to tell me how it is enough for you.}

 

What I used before on Android is Solid Explorer FTP server. It's 1 tap from control bar and it's running in background. From home network I have access to internal storage of the phone and I can manage files however I want. If I need - I can do opposite - connect to my PC from the phone through SMB. Even though SMB is super unreliable protocol.

 

Currently on iPhone I only have an option to connect from phone to PC with SMB client built-into default file explorer app. _{And it needs to "disconnect" SMB before every use because for some reason it dies but stays "connected".}

Also tried to use iCloud but it only works with JPG files.

 

Is there a way to share the internal storage of iPhone within the network and manage files without limitations?

[Radium_Angel]

Transfering file from iphone to windows, use google drive.

mapped within a network? None that I have ever found (that didn't involve the abomination that is itunes)

[jaslion]

There isn't a local file transfer option as far as I know that has decent access to the folders.

 

This is basically how it's always been

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

There isn't a local file transfer option as far as I know that has decent access to the folders.

 

This is basically how it's always been

So damn stupid.

 

Curious how much of this is actual coding differences, vs Bill and Steve drama bullshit intentionally done to dick each other.

[OddOod]

10 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

So damn stupid.

 

Curious how much of this is actual coding differences, vs Bill and Steve drama bullshit intentionally done to dick each other.

It's a "security feature" to not let users have access to the file system. It's dumb walled garden stuff. Anti-consumer AF IMO

The best solution I've ever seen, and by "best" I mean "abysmal but what can you do?" is some apps implement an internal SMB share and you can transfer files that way, but I've never seen more than 100MB go through before having to restart the transfer.

 

[Bombama]

57 minutes ago, OddOod said:

It's dumb walled garden stuff. Anti-consumer AF IMO

I hope they really will implement 3rd-party apps as people say. Yt Vanced, instagram without ads, proper file management and network sharing... Would be great.

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

use google drive.

Yep, and then have no access even to locally cached files when you have no connection.

I need to actually save files to the phone storage.

[OddOod]

8 hours ago, Bombama said:

I need to actually save files to the phone storage

you basically can't. Sorry. welcome to iOS. 
what is your use case?

 

[Ripred]

10 hours ago, Bombama said:

I switched to Iphone couple months ago and not planning to switch back. And still haven't found out a decent way to manage files between devices at home.

_{I understand that there are people who sent 3 files during the life time and all of them were jpgs. They're happy with what they have but pls, no need to tell me how it is enough for you.}

 

What I used before on Android is Solid Explorer FTP server. It's 1 tap from control bar and it's running in background. From home network I have access to internal storage of the phone and I can manage files however I want. If I need - I can do opposite - connect to my PC from the phone through SMB. Even though SMB is super unreliable protocol.

 

Currently on iPhone I only have an option to connect from phone to PC with SMB client built-into default file explorer app. _{And it needs to "disconnect" SMB before every use because for some reason it dies but stays "connected".}

Also tried to use iCloud but it only works with JPG files.

 

Is there a way to share the internal storage of iPhone within the network and manage files without limitations?

Adobe Acrobat can share between devices but that's about it, this is why I don't switch to apple, you can't share between devices unless everything is apple 

[Bombama]

21 hours ago, OddOod said:

what is your use case?

using a phone not just for facebook scrolling.

Normal catalog of photography that I'm doing, like in many different folders instead of 1 single folder in Photos app; copying some movies/series to watch on the phone when I don't have power and internet connection (happens often in Ukraine because of russian terrorism). Overall using the phone as secondary media device and catalog.

 

BTW, I'm doing photography and it's super inconvenient to store freshly imported photos in 1 single folder on my phone in Photos app. Before, on Android phone, I used to have separate folders for any kind of media: phone photos, downloads, memes, saved media from friends chats (personal photo/video but separately from other media), porn with humans, porn with 3d-printers, evidences of UFO conspiracies, flat Earth videos, landscape photos, city photos, portraits, new photos in separate folder - to select them conveniently when I'm posting it in social, then moving to according category folder so they're not in "new" which means they're posted. It was so simple and convenient. Now I have 1 single folder and all media in it.

 

upd. right now I'm downloading YT videos from my Watch Later list and by default they're .webm. I can not use my Icloud Drive to send/sync to phone. Why do I pay for the iCloud drive? Just to back up my phone? That's  all? Can I back it up to my own custom server? No.

Do they have a department at Apple where they decide which features to cut off from their products?

[OddOod]

Yup, you're SOL. Sorry bud.