iPhone 12 Pro Max 128gb.

I use a lightning cable to back up all my files when my iPhone storage gets full as I prefer to keep everything on my own hardware instead of cloud based.

I’ve had many iPhones since iPhone 3G and have noticed with each new generation it gets harder and harder to transfer files to PC from hardware to hardware.

I’m getting errors or crashes when ever I try move items over to my PC from my phone, it seems like either the phone, cable or USB port is running out of bandwidth or files are corrupted which stops the process? I’m not sure.

Sometimes it works fine and I have no issues but most of the time its a frustrating process of unplugging cables, plugging into new USB ports every time it crashes, turning off my phone, restarting my PC to get somewhat of a stable connection again to cut and paste the contents of a folder over.

I’m currently using Windows 10, Ryzen 5 2600x 3.6ghz, 32gb but that shouldn’t matter as I have since had 3/4 different PC’s, many different cables, tried all USB ports on all PCs and I’ve never been able to figure out a fix for this.

I’ve looked up and down forums, apples support community, tried deliberately not using my pc or phone when transferring, changing the 'Transfer to Mac or PC setting and turning auto screen off, off.

All I want to do is ctrl x + ctrl v my data to my pc!!

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• I would like to know the reason why this happens all the time?
• What fixes or workarounds are there?

Here’s some errors just from todays few hours of wrestling with my phone:

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The most common error: it seems the iPhone stopped responding and this pops up.

Again, similar problem of device not functioning.

The operation failed successfully!!

This is my favourite!