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Getting photos from an iPhone

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Street Pattern, Jan 1, 2015.

  1. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    Location:
    The American Midwest
    I have a few hundred photos on my iPhone.

    When I connect the iPhone to my Windows 7 laptop, iTunes comes up. The iPhone is recognized as a device by iTunes.

    However, the iPhone is NOT recognized as a device on the computer. So there is no way to copy photos from the iPhone to the computer.

    There are many posts online complaining about this, but no solutions that have worked for me.

    Apple has a page about what to do if iTunes doesn't recognize the iPhone. But that's not the problem, since iTunes recognizes the phone just fine.

    Someone posted a note that said that, if you have any "foreign" photos, that is, photos that were not taken by the iPhone, then your computer will never recognize the iPhone. You need to delete the "foreign" photos.

    But I don't have any "foreign" photos. As far as I can see, every single one of the photos on my iPhone was taken by the iPhone.

    In iTunes, in the iPhone section that comes up when the iPhone is plugged in, there's a section about settings to "sync" your photos. To what?

    The choices are "all folders" (which is checked) or some specific folder. But the only "folder" available (to do what with?) is one that has only the 10 oldest photos on my iPhone.

    So, is there a way to fix this?

    I guess this means the iPhone was a huge mistake. I should have gotten a Droid. I'm an idiot.
    --- merged: Jan 1, 2015 6:59 AM ---
    So my daughter's boyfriend hears about this. He says "It's the charger."

    The charger? What's that?

    It turns out he means the cable connecting the iPhone to the computer's USB port.

    The cable is a "charger"?

    He unplugs my cable, and plugs in an identical one that he has. The iPhone instantly shows up where it belongs.

    "These chargers are sort of funky," he says.
     
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    Street Pattern, Jan 1, 2015
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  2. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    If your photos are very important to you I would suggest two things:

    1. They should be backed up regularly to somewhere that isn't your home or office. Dropbox, Picasa, a tape farm in Bangledesh. Whatever. This is in addition to your local copies. If your phone has hundreds of photos on it that don't exist anywhere else and you drop your phone in the toilet after a too-late night at the bar, your photos are gone forever. Make sure you keep them in more than one place to avoid this. Learn now to save pain later.

    2. You may want to consider adding a second device to your arsenal that supports open standards.

    The problem with Apple is that they like to use proprietary crap. So you get these weird non-standard connectors and have issues like this. Whereas a phone or camera that uses the standard connectivity options, you can plug it in with a mini/micro USB cable, or pop the memory card into a card reader, and it works.

    I would honestly suggest a nice point and shoot. They're small enough now that you can tuck them into a pocket, and not substantially harder to use than your phone camera. You get better results for a relatively small investment.

    Vendor lock-in sucks. Glad you could solve your problem though.
     
    martian, Jan 1, 2015
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  3. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    Location:
    The American Midwest
    Like I said, the problem turned out to be the cable. Who would have thought that a simple little cable, only a few months old, with no obvious flaws, never been mistreated, has somehow gone bad?
     
    Street Pattern, Jan 1, 2015
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  4. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Location:
    The United Kingdom, naturally
    In the short term, I would arrange for your iPhone to automatically backup to the iCloud via wifi whenever it's in range of a connection, which will use none of your data, and will prevent to total loss, down the toilet scenario mentioned above.
     
    Daniel_, Jan 1, 2015
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  5. RedSneaker

    RedSneaker Very Tilted

    But @daniel_ how do you retrieve them from the cloud?!
     
    RedSneaker, Jan 1, 2015
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  6. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Location:
    The United Kingdom, naturally
    You can see them in your PC iTunes, or on any other iDevice.

    That said, I do it all on android myself, but others in my family are keen on iStuff
     
    Daniel_, Jan 1, 2015
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  7. ASU2003

    ASU2003 Very Tilted

    Location:
    Where ever I roam
    *Does not apply if you are a celebrity wanting to save nude photos.

    It's been a while, but I think I setup something on a friend's iPhone to allow it to backup to a folder on a windows computer over wifi.

    Transfer Photos from iPhone to computer Over Wi-Fi
     
    ASU2003, Jan 1, 2015
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  8. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Why not just email them to yourself?
     
    grumpyolddude, Jan 2, 2015
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