SaveMyRoll copies all your photos and videos from your iPhone to your PC or an external drive, sorts them by the date they were taken, and checks every single file. When it says “0 errors”, it means it.
Free on your first 100 files · Microsoft Store · Windows 10 and 11 · USB cable or Wi-Fi
Windows can import iPhone photos on its own. With a big library, this is where it usually goes wrong, and you often only find out much later.
Something went wrong
The Photos app stops halfway through a large import, and starting again does not always help.
The device is unreachable
Dragging the DCIM folders in File Explorer breaks off halfway, and you are left guessing which files made it.
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Some tools leave empty files behind. They look fine in the folder, until you try to open the photo.
Copying is easy. Knowing that every single file made it is the hard part. SaveMyRoll reads each one back and proves it.
The same four steps, for each photo and video, every time.
SaveMyRollPlug in your iPhone, pick a folder, and let it run. SaveMyRoll only reads from your phone, it never deletes or changes anything on it.
Plug it in with a cable and tap “Trust” on the phone. SaveMyRoll finds it straight away and shows how many photos and videos are on it.
Your PC, a second drive or an external hard drive. Files land in year and month folders, by the date each photo was taken. Next time, only the new ones are copied.
Every file is read back from the drive and compared with what came off the phone (SHA-256). You see exactly how many were saved, how many were verified, and if anything failed, which file and why.
Use a cable for the first big backup, then top up over Wi-Fi without looking for one. Pull the cable halfway through a video and SaveMyRoll carries on over Wi-Fi, then switches back as soon as you plug it in again.
The fastest way. Best for the first backup of a big library.
No cable needed for the new photos. Slower, so it suits regular top-ups. Pair once with a cable, see how.
Cable pulled, phone locked or backup stopped: start again and it continues where it stopped. Files already saved are skipped.
No phone manager with fifty menus. Just your photos and videos, safely on your own drive.
Each copy is read back and checked. No silent gaps, no empty files.
Year and month folders from the photo’s own capture date, not the day you copied it.
Run it again next month and it copies just the new photos. Already saved files are skipped.
Save to your PC, a second internal drive, an external hard drive or any folder you choose.
Nothing on the iPhone is deleted, moved or changed. Originals are copied as they are, HEIC and video included.
No account, no cloud, no uploads. Your photos go from your phone to your drive and nowhere else.
Try it free first. If you like it, unlock it with a one-time payment. No subscription, nothing renews.
Launch prices, the discount is applied at checkout. Prices include VAT.
When I checked the iPhone backup I had made years earlier, 49 of my original photos and videos were simply not there. Another 114 had only survived as empty 0 KB files next to a converted JPG. Nothing had ever warned me.
So I built the tool I wanted for myself: one that copies everything, checks every file, and tells you honestly if anything went wrong. If you have a question, write to me. I answer myself.
A Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11 PC and the cable for your iPhone. Nothing needs to be installed on the iPhone. SaveMyRoll sets up the rest.
Yes. Connect the iPhone with a cable once and turn on “Show this iPhone when on Wi-Fi” in Apple Devices (or in iTunes, if you use it). After that, SaveMyRoll finds the phone when both are on the same network. Wi-Fi is slower than a cable, so use the cable for the first big backup. If the cable is pulled during a backup, it continues over Wi-Fi on its own. The guide shows every step.
It is Apple’s free connection component for Windows. Windows needs it to talk to an iPhone at all, and most iPhone tools on Windows rely on it. If you already have iTunes or Apple Devices, there is nothing to do. If not, SaveMyRoll shows a button that opens it in the Microsoft Store: click “Get”, wait about a minute, and SaveMyRoll carries on by itself. It goes on your PC only, never on the phone. On its own it does not copy your photos as files; that is what SaveMyRoll is for.
No. SaveMyRoll only reads. It never deletes, moves or changes anything on your phone. When the backup is done and verified, you decide yourself whether to free up space.
SaveMyRoll backs up the files that are on the phone. With “Optimize iPhone Storage” on, the full-size originals of older photos live in iCloud, and the phone only keeps smaller versions. To back up the originals, switch to “Download and Keep Originals” in Settings → Photos first, and give the phone time to download them.
Photos imports, but it does not check what it copied, and it often gives up on large libraries. SaveMyRoll re-reads every file it saved, compares it with the original, and tells you the result. It also sorts by the real capture date and copies only new files next time.
iMazing is a full device manager (messages, apps, backups) sold as a yearly subscription. CopyTrans Photo moves photos both ways between PC and iPhone. SaveMyRoll does one job: a complete, one-way copy of your photos and videos that it verifies file by file, for a one-time price. See vs iMazing, vs CopyTrans and all options compared.
Everything, Wi-Fi included. The only limit is the number of files: the first 100 per iPhone are free. That is enough to see how it works on your own phone and drive before you pay.
Buy a license here. You get a license key by email straight away. Open SaveMyRoll, click “Free trial” in the top right, paste the key and press Activate.
Yes. In SaveMyRoll, open the license window and choose “Remove from this PC”, then activate the same key on the new computer. Personal works on 2 PCs at the same time, Family on 5.
Yes. Updates are free, and the version you buy keeps working for good, with no subscription and nothing that expires.
Write to us and we will help. If it still does not work, you get your money back within 14 days of purchase. See the refund policy.
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