iPhone 13 Pro: Cannot play or transfer large 4K video
Unable to upload or transfer a very large 4K video from iPhone 13 Pro.
I accidentally recorded a video in 4K on Tuesday June 2, and now I'm having trouble accessing or transferring it.
Device: iPhone 13 Pro
Storage: 128 GB (126.65 GB currently used)
iCloud Plan: 2 TB
Video details:
- Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes, 23 seconds
- Size: 30.94 GB
- Resolution: 2160 × 3840 (4K)
- Frame rate: 59.97 FPS
- Camera: Wide Camera (26 mm, f/1.5)
The main issue is that the video will not even load or play on my iPhone. It appears in Photos, but I cannot open it.
I've already tried:
- Compressing the video (the compression app won't successfully import/upload the file)
- Uploading to Google Drive (I upgraded to 100 GB storage, but the upload remains stuck on "Waiting...")
- Waiting for iCloud Photos to sync (all photos and videos taken around the same time have uploaded to iCloud, but this particular video has not)
- Accessing my iCloud Photos library from my Mac (the video does not appear there)
At this point, I'm mainly trying to:
- Transfer the video to my Mac or cloud storage.
- Compress the video so I can send it through Gmail.
Has anyone successfully recovered or transferred a video of this size when the iPhone storage is nearly full? Are there any Apple-recommended methods for forcing a large video to upload to iCloud or transfer directly to a Mac when the file won't properly load in Photos?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
iPhone 13 Pro