I wouldn’t say I’ve “tackled” this, but I have tamed things pretty well. I still use Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) to import photos off the phone. It can auto rotate them during importation. I use WPG to add tags and do face ID’ing. By the way, the only file types I bother with are JPG and MOV. I then use Namexif to bulk rename the photos. Then I manually rename any it missed. The pattern I use is “YYYY-MM-DD hh.mm.ss”. Some people like time colons (:), I prefer periods (.). Next I use Geosetter. This baby is fantastic for applying date, time, and location metadata. Believe me, getting photos with correct metadata BACK onto your phone can only happen using something like Geosetter. Finally, if you want your MOVs to also have correct dates, times, and location metadata, use “exiftool”. Exiftool is technically part of Geosetter, but I find the command prompt method works better for MOVs. Let Geosetter handle the JPGs. Finally, and I do mean finally, because oh my gawd does it really take this much effort to have good metadata’d photos on your phone in 2023!!!? Where was I? Oh, then use CopyTrans Photo to transfer the JPGs and MOVs to your phone. Because screw iTunes. And even then CopyTrans Photo will take several attempts before all photos are present and in the correct chronological sequence. Good luck and keep trying and be patient. Having good clean data that works for you instead of against you is possible! -hedge
I wouldn’t say I’ve “tackled” this, but I have tamed things pretty well. I still use Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) to import photos off the phone. It can auto rotate them during importation. I use WPG to add tags and do face ID’ing. By the way, the only file types I bother with are JPG and MOV. I then use Namexif to bulk rename the photos. Then I manually rename any it missed. The pattern I use is “YYYY-MM-DD hh.mm.ss”. Some people like time colons (:), I prefer periods (.). Next I use Geosetter. This baby is fantastic for applying date, time, and location metadata. Believe me, getting photos with correct metadata BACK onto your phone can only happen using something like Geosetter. Finally, if you want your MOVs to also have correct dates, times, and location metadata, use “exiftool”. Exiftool is technically part of Geosetter, but I find the command prompt method works better for MOVs. Let Geosetter handle the JPGs. Finally, and I do mean finally, because oh my gawd does it really take this much effort to have good metadata’d photos on your phone in 2023!!!? Where was I? Oh, then use CopyTrans Photo to transfer the JPGs and MOVs to your phone. Because screw iTunes. And even then CopyTrans Photo will take several attempts before all photos are present and in the correct chronological sequence. Good luck and keep trying and be patient. Having good clean data that works for you instead of against you is possible! -hedge