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Non-coder builds iPhone app to batch-save ZIP photos to Photos

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A non-coder, 啵啵 (@turingou), says he built a small iPhone app with Dots that unzips large ZIP archives and saves the photos to the Photos library, with progress display and resume support.

Karl's AI Watts (@aiwarts) praised the resume and skip-saved-files feature in an October 12, 2026 post. Karl's AI Watts reports that in a test of 953 files totaling 15.32GB, the app finished in about four minutes. These test figures come from the reposted account and have not been independently verified.

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Karl's AI Watts praises a tool that resumes and skips saved photos

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    Karl's AI Watts praises a tool that resumes and skips saved photos

    AIKarl's AI Watts says the feature that resumes a stalled photo import and skips already-saved files is especially useful when moving large batches of material. The post refers to @turingou's account of an iPhone app that unzips large archives and saves them to Photos with progress, resume, and skip. In a test of 953 files totaling 15.32GB, the app finished in about four minutes.

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