HobbitFoot IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.
This is not a coincidence, Apple purposefully make it painful to use anything with any of their products unless it’s one of their products
Someone tried to send me a picture they took and it looked like hot garbage until they sent it over email. Not because it couldn’t be sent without feeding it through a potato first, because Apple wants a worse experience for anyone not in their ecosystem.
When they are the oddball in the group though, it just makes iPhone’s look like a worse option.