It can bulk-export the entire library's contents in year-wise or album-wise folders, which you can import into Microsoft Photos. ImageBrowser is a powerful, free software only available for Mac, that belongs to the category Design & Photography with subcategory Photo Albums & Viewers. So you may want to export all the photos at once, preserving edits and metadata, from Apple Photos into Windows Photos, and recreate the albums.Īnother option is to use Photos Takeout app (Mac only).
You could export one album at a time by selecting all the photos in it, but (a) it would be laborious, (b) you'll miss out the photos that you hadn't added to any album, and will duplicate any photos that you had put in multiple albums.
The Windows Photos database also creates albums similarly. Photos aren't saved into any 'album folders': the Photos database only stores the file paths, based on which albums are displayed when you run Photos. The latest versions of edited photos are saved in another folder. You just need to sync your iPhone photo album to iCloud, and then download them. Apple Photos stores the original unedited versions of all photos in a folder named Masters (Mojave and prior) or Originals (Catalina and later). You can take advantage of it to import photo albums from iPhone to Mac easily.
