thanks, you saved me alot of time by posting this
saltwaterdawg if florida

hey....im having prob im tryin the steps mentioned but when i open the folder "apple iphone" its saying there are no objects in it

Hi,
I was using the steps you metnioned above but in my case i get the following message when i try to cilck on camera and scanner option under accessories tab

"The computer cannot detect the scanner or camera.
Please make sure the device is turned on and is properly connected to the computer. If the computer still cannot detect the device, open Control Panel, click Sanners and Cameras, and then click Add Device."

I have my iphone already attached and its on so I tried the second option to add the device as mentioned. But when I try to do that the wizard does not list the Manufacturer "Apple" in the list. So I have no way to add my iphone to this option.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Disgruntled itunes user

If xp cannot see the device, this isn't going to work. Usually this is a conflict with another piece of hardware. I would try disconnecting all my usb devices, reboot, reattach the iPhone, and try again.

XP historically has not handled USB very well... and trying to debug a poor usb connection can be painful and difficult.

I had this problem. When I checked the Device Manager, it had listed the iPhone as a camera with a problem in its drivers. I tried updating the driver to no avail. What worked was to unplug my Visioneer scanner, uninstall the driver for the iPhone, and then reboot the computer. When it came back up, it recognized the iPhone.

Phew! After a while I got this working now. I could'nt find the thing listed in my device manager, in fact I did not have an imaging/camera option in there. None of these were working, then I found that in my device manager (right click my computer) there was an entry of "Apple mobile device". Once I right clicked and uninstalled the driver for that, then unplugged and put back the iphone. Sweet! Now it installed as a camera/ imaging device.

I suspect my visioneer scanner had something to do with the conflict, as somebody else mentioned this in another post.

I searched for HOURS before coming across this information, and it worked. THANK YOU!!!

I noticed that there is another essential step to the above instructions. iTunes needs to be on for this to work.

Also to get to device manager, right click my computer, click on properties, select the hardware tab and select device manager. The 'Apple mobile device' was among the USB controller driver entries.

Hi,
I found that in device manager, uninstalled, connected iphone again but nothing happen again driver installed but does not appear in scanners and cameras.

Thanks for this - I was puzzling over how to get my photos!!!

My pleasure! Thanks for visiting!

why not just go to "my computer" then you see Apple iPhone :)

Hey This is Natesh from Singpaore

Thanks alot for your information.

Cheers

Thanks! I could not find this simple suggestion anywhere on Apple's site.

Thank you sooo much. I was having a very difficult time trying to figure out how to do this.

Thanks for this info !!! Great info indeed!

my computer failed to copy any pics - the error message was:

the following error occured while copying pictures:

the I/O operation hes been aborted becaue of either a thread exit or an application request

WTF?

ok now the wizard couldn't do it, but through Adobe Photoshop I was able to download 60 of about 300 pictures - all from October - why can't I download the rest of the pictures? frustrating!

Your guide can only transfer camera photos, and how to transfer other photos in photo albums?

It worked thanks for the instruction!

Thanks a Billion for that wonderful piece of info. it immediately worked.
Wonder why even after so much research in to usability, file management is such a pain in the mobile devices of the apple stable.

fantastic
thanks for this

Thanks!

THANK YOU

Muppets!
My computer > select Iphone and there they are
DOH!

hats off!!!!!! u solved my issue.

Can't do that - it isn't there!

close itunes and right-click, click refresh and your iphone should show up under my computer. Then click internal storage, etc. until you get to the photo folder. Then just copy & paste.

Thanks for helping me figure out how to download pics FROM my iPhone.

Absolutely Outstanding Post. It's great! Thanks

Aw nice one, can't believe i didn't think of this. Been trying to find something to transfer pics on to a PC. Found one for a mac ages ago but not an easy thing for pc, and now I find this. I had all I needed all along. Thanks again. :)

Thanks a lot! Very helpful!
Best~

Thanks for the help! I would have never figured that out!

Best post ever!

Hi, Thanks you solved the problem for me

Thanks for your suggesting...I was breaking my head how to copy photos from my iphone..I thought itunes is smart enough to copy my pictures from iphone...

Hello davak! Have I told you lately what a genius you are? How many people during the day do I meet who (a) saves me a lot of hassle and (b) saves me $30? In these difficult times, $30 is not to be wasted. If you search for something like "transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer," you get a bunch of links, surrounding yours, who assure me, no, there's no way to get your pictures off an iPhone. You can get them on, but you can't get them off. Scientists and wizards both have spent many fruitless days on this endeavor, and each time they thought they were getting close, an even more difficult, more insurmountable problem would come into view. In a joint statement, the wizards and scientists summed up their findings. "You may as well try to understand the ins and outs of the subprime mortgage scheme as figure out how to move photos from an iPhone to a desktop computer. Another good comparison would be to encrypted algorithms. In both cases, you just can't break the code. We can report with confidence that it is humanly impossible to transfer photos from an iPhone to a desktop. Period. Full stop. End of report."

"But wait!," an authoritative web voice exclaims. "Tales have been told -- the ignorant call them myths -- about a magic software that will undo the chains apple has wrought, and deliver your lost iPhone photos to your desktop unharmed and whole, for only $30."

And I was about to put out that money. But you, davak -- your magic is stronger!

Best. Thank-you post. Evar.

:)

ok so as far as getting pictures from my camera roll. yes this works. i need to know how to get the library off. i have 225 pics on camera roll and 1600 on the library. but when i do the scanner/ camera wizard, it only allows me to pull off the pics from the camera roll.

please help joizi69@msn.com

I have 1559 photos in my library and have the same problem! Any adice would be gratefully accepted.

Yes but this doesn't allow me to get pictures that were loaded from my previous computer, only the pictures I actually took with the device. How can I get those other hundreds of pictures off the phone that were loaded from my previous (stolen) computer?

did you ever find a way to download your pics?

I cannot get my computer to recognise the iphone.
Itunes sees it, but not the control panel, nor the directory.
If I go to Disk management, it is not there anymore either.
When I plug my iphone into a USB port, no window opens asking what I would like to do.
I am trying Windows Update Service, but not very confident.

I had the same problem. Just try to do it on a machine with no i-tunes installed. This worked for me. For some reason when i-tunes sees the iphone therew is no way for the computer to detect it (via USB port) and ask you what would you like to do with it

I have the same issue. When I first plug in my iphone, my computer did recognise it, but I clicked "cancel", and it never shows up again! tried to reboot my computer, unplug, plug in iphone, Frustrating...

go to your desktop> right click my computer > hardware > device manager > check if iphone camera is over there. If you are unable to see it > scan for a hardware changes. It will come up with unknown device. > right click on it and choose> update driver. Allow windows to connect with windows update. This should help.

I can be under Imaging Devices> then update the driver> reboot and it pops up. thanks everyone - I can't believe this is different on so many. The other thing that helped was the Enable Automatic Sync when iPhone is connected. Try both !!!!

I had the same problem. Couldn't even find the iphone device under my control panel. Hard rebooting the phone just fixed the problem. My computer now recognizes it again and I can transfer photos from my phone to my computer.

Simple solution.

Oh btw, this might not be the most common cause, but if you cant see the iphone on My Computer or on Scanner and Camera Wizard, be sure that "Automaticaly sync when this iPhone is connected" option is enabled on the summary page on iTunes. I was kicking myself about that

tried that - works! Thanks.

Thanks--that was a very simple solution to something that had me scratching my head.

Very helpful, Thanks!

Hey. I used to be able to do this, got quite a few pics off of my iphone. Recently however, I go through the same procedure, select the pics I want, get to the point where it begins the copying process and it keeps saying something like, "this photo cannot be copied" or "there was an error copying this photo." I have to click skip, but it just ends up saying the same thing for each photo. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks for the instructions - work perfectly. Really is a great service when you have to search through online to get help. - Too bad this "service" isnt so easy to obtain from apple!
Jenny

What about if its saying: no pictures have been found on the camera. :((( There is only one folder, default one and about 30 pictures.

That was simple and great Thanks a lot

Thank u bro! too bad for Itunes.

This worked. Thank you so much! :]
It sure helped ALOT. Before, I had to email pictures to
my computer one by one and it took such a long time, but this
made my life so much easier. Again, thank you so much!

Thanks man, this small tutorial really helped me. It was so quick. I would like to add few more points.

If you cannot see scanners and camera in the All Program. Than wait and XP will itself pop up a window asking what to do.

From there you can choose camera and scanners, than rest is same as this tutorial.

WOW... I've been trying to figure this out
for months! THANK YOU!!!

This worked great! Like a lot of other users on here, I was trying to figure out how to do this for months. The only "glitch" I had was the first time the wizard said there were no photos (of course yes, there actually were) so canceling out of the wizard and starting it again and the second time it found the photos. WOOT!! Thank you for posting this for everyone!

Dude,

Got my iphone a while back, but the last two days have been on an all out mission to crack this nut, & then I stumbled upon this brilliant tut. Thanks a stack.

P1570L

Thanks alot for this. I almost deleted my iphone photos when I thought that i could upload my photos by syncing it with itunes.

Not completely true. The must be a setting in iTunes to enable seeing the iPhone in Windows. On computers that don't have iTunes installed, I can see the iPhone. On those with iTunes installed, it never shows up.

HOORAY! This is awesome. Thank you for explaining it to me! I have to go order my prints now!

thanks, how fantastic. you saved me loads of time!

OR, you could just go to "My Computer" and click on the iPhone. Voilá, all your pictures, without downloading complicated programs.

How do you transfer pictures from iPhone to computer with VISTA operating System?
I am unable to do it.
I have an HP computer with VIsTA ULTIMATE.
Please help

You cant delete pictures off your iphone from within Explorer! It crashes the iphone!

Super helpful. Thanks. Was wracking my head about this. And it turned out to be so simple.

good one, thank you

The following worked for me, I figured I would post it so it may help another.
I tried the scanner/camera wizard - got a message to make sure the device was turned on, etc.
Showed up just fine in device manager without driver problems, but not in My Computer.
Couldn't figure out how to transfer from Photoshop but the help said to use Windows Image Acquisition.
i could not find the shortcut or file to launch that program but then I remembered, that in Device Manager under Services - is Windows Image Acquisition. It was disabled. I set it to manual and started it. Sure enough the iPhone showed right up in My Computer, and I could use the original method with the camera/scanner wizard.

it worked for me but the shots are sideways so every photo I have to click and turn

This is the way I was doing this, but a lot of the time I get a message "The computer cannot detect the scanner or camera. Please make sure the device is turned on and is properly connected to the computer." Other times it thinks it is busy. And sometimes it actually works.

Once it told me there was an error with a parameter. Not sure where to look for this.

And then about once out of 20 it will work. Mostly I upload them to another computer and put them on a flash drive or cd to move them. Real pain.


Any idea where I shoudl check?

Much thanks!

Thank you dear!!!
Great help!

Thanks so much! This is the only useful link I got after so many searches! Now all my photos are backed up. Yay!

I can't even connect my iphone with XP, while I have photo's on the camera reel. How do you prevent the BSOD in the first instance

I have more than one album in the iphone but windows sees only one, how can I download ALL?

Please help.

Thank you so much, I spent ages trying to do this!

Thank you so much! I have been trying to get pictures transferred using Itunes, having no luck. This is a great tutorial. I now have all my pics on my computer.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the info. I tried to use itunes, but was not successful....

Thanks mate. The tip was quite handy.

Thanks dude...its working...

tnx loads :) although i found it going to my computer and clicking apple iphone!

You are ACE.
Thanks for saving me hours.

Wow, you made this so simple. I found other sites telling me to download a software etc....and it didn't even work! Hats off to you :)

didn't work - the wizard didn't recognize any devices ....

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure this out for so long. You made it so easy. Much appreciated!!!

Bless you! That is just what I needed.

Thank you so much!! I've been trying for hours to bakcup my photos!

Superb, exactly what I needed to know and it worked perfectly.

Wow. Very disappointed at Apple for the way this works (or doesn't work in some people's cases). iTunes has a "Photos" tab under the iPhone! And the choice to sync photos with it even!!! It doesn't sync anything!!! Which led me to believe something was really wrong because I know there's photos on the phone. And like someone else said, no help from Apple on this that I could find anywhere! When I connected the phone, XP was nice enough to tell me about a camera device being connected, but I kinda blew it off because I figured iTunes would take care of it. Anyways, THANKS FOR THE POST. And shame, shame, shame on Apple for this one! Extremely non-intuitive use case which is usually not like them.

omg u r a total life savor thank you sooo much!<3

Picasa importing the photos without a problem from my iPhone to winXP

THIS IS AWESOME, YOU ROCK!

This is a great tool for us IPhone users, however my pictures downloaded sideways & I'm unable to find an application that will allow me to take the pictures and turn them correctly. Anyone have any advice?

Thanks for posting this - it is unbelievable to me that sometimes Apple is so intuitive that it just works. You would think something like synching photos from your iPhone to your PC would be configurable in iTunes. Maybe they can put that in the 4G version? ya think?

informative, I just bought a used Iphone off ebay and took some pictures. Now I was looking how to transfer pics to my PC. helped me a lot.

Thanks! It really helps

Thanks for the info.

Simply great !
Thanks !

Thank you so much. I feel like an idiot as I had the box pop up everytime and I just ignored it.

Thank you very much! That's exactly what I was looking for.

My PC does not pick up the i-phone as a camera

The i-tunes does all the correct backups and the like but I have lost the ability to have the photos downloades onto my PC

Using Vista

Thank you for the information. It worked perfectly!

Nothing of this helped me. PC crashed on all attempts to load driver. Solution: I uninstalled/deleted an old Logitech driver: lvusbsta.sys (ver. 9.5.0). Then installed new Logitech driver:LVMVDrv.sys. Then Apple iPhone came up right and pictures can be loaded to PC.
I had to reinstall the old Logitech driver after, because I lost all sound on my PC.

nice!
cheers! :D

great help, worked perfect- THANKS!

THANK YOU!!! So perfect. Easiest photo transfer from mobile phone Ive ever had!!

"Scanner and camera wizard" as well as picasa only download pics from the cameral roll.

If anyone knows how to download the other folders (Photo library and others), please comment. Thank you in advance.

Hi, i hope you can help me. I am not able to detect iphone from select drive. Please advise what i should do next. Thanks.

Excellent stuff - thanks for publishing this

well, excellent !
i dont have windows but works as great on a mac if you use appropriate software...
iphoto would probably sync directly with itunes

but then if tou don't want to use it (like me...) you just have to use the "image transfer" program (well... translation from french, i'm not sure of the actual program name in english) which i use to downlaod all my pictures from my cameras

thanks for th tip ;-)

Does this still work for iPhone 3G or 3GS? My XP says it cannot see any scanner devices...

You can also just go into "Explore" which gives you your files and folders view and the camera should show up as a small phone icon with the name of your phone. The sub folders are called (in this order) Internal Storage, DCIM, 100APPLE and the pictures are available there where you can drag and drop them into any other folder on your computer.

Thanks!

II had some problem using the instruction you posted, the problem is that I have a scanner also. When I try to fine my IPhone its not there my scanner always come up.
When I plug up my IPhone several things happens firstit looks for new software, next itune open and start sync my phone. I'm not sure how to add IPhone software to my computer since it come with itune when I connect my phone to my computer. Is there another way to download photois from my IPhone to my PC?

Good News my friends I found a way to download your pictures from your IPhone its easy and you don't have to download any software. If you have a digital camera and install the software to download pictures from you digital camera. You can use the same software to download pictures from your IPhone.
(1) Connect your IPhone to your PC, your PC think your IPhone is a camera and will ask you to look for the software.
(2) ckeck you will install the software. Depending on what type of digital camera and software you install to down your pictures from your digital camera.
(3)click that software, after it install it will connect with your IPhone. The next step is depending on the type software that you use to edit your pictures from your digital camera. I use Adobe Photoshop Album Starter. Its free to download from Major Greek.com. If you have another use that one
(4) A Panal should pop up with the editing software that you use.
(5) click that software your pictures from your IPhone should start downloading into that program.

This only works if you have taken pictures with your Iphone camera. I am having problems transferring pictures from my photo library to the computer. We had over 3000 photos on our computer and it crashed. Those pics were on our iphone's but our harddrive was lost. So, we are now trying to transfer them back onto the computer from the iphone. We have successfully wiped out 2 iphone's now! We have 1 more phone that has the pics on it that we are trying to transfer. It is our last chance to get them on there without losing them. These are important pictures of family/friends....our daughters prom and graduation. Please help us if you have the answer.
Thanks, Kate

Late,

I read your letter and understand where you coming from and what you are trying to do. First stop what you doing don't download anymore pictures to your hard drive ok.
I will explain several steps for you to follow to download all your pictures to your computer.
At the present I'm at work I will write you later this evening ok. I did not want you to think that I did not receive or read your e-mail.

Ray

"Good Things Happens To People That Waits"

When I try to download photos, windows explorer shows me duplicated photos, "overwriting" new ones. So I cannot transfer them correctly. This issue started by chance. Do any of you experience this issue? I don't know how to fix it or realize if it's a bug or not.

many thanks for this simple method of getting the pics out of my iphone :-)

egidiocs - try creating a new directory/folder to download to. It may be some of your other photos have the same number (although they are different pictures) the number is put on by the camera. Good luck.

Thank you so much, this was a perfect explanation, just what I was searching ages for!!!

I discovered on my computer that it wouldn't recognize that the iPhone was plugged in until I disconnected my USB wireless networking dealie.

Man, that was so easy.

But instead of of going through the scanner and camera path, I just clicked on my computer, right clicked on my iphone, and selected explore. And just copy all.

Thanks for the info. Really appreciated it.

thank you so much for the posting! this saved me quite a bit of time!

Guys,
This information helped me a lot. thanks for that. Just one comment from my side. I had a hard time uninstalling Apple USB Driver on Device Manager. Alternatively, I plugged my iphone to pc where Itunes was not installed. It worked perfectly for me.
I am happy I have all my favourite pics on my pc now. :)
thanks everyone again for sharing your experiences. Good luck to you all.

Hi do you know how to do this on vista? I cant find anywhere that knows how?? Please help! For some reason years and years worth of photos are on my iphone and it has deleted them off my computer!!

Thanks, worked perfectly

Thanks your posting, it's wonderful. I will check it.

Thanks for this... was looking at downloading software. Is there an app for this now?

hi,
thanks for the simple steps...it worked.
it is pity that itune can not handle the photo transfer from iphone to PC.
Apple should really take this as an enhancement for next version.

Thanks so much - I had "months" of pics that I didn't want to lose and couldn't get them to move.....so frustrating.
I will pass this site along to iphone friends.

This worked great - thank you! An additional tidbit - maybe it was my machine but it didn't want to move the large .MOV files so I selected 'skip' on each and the smaller files transferred fine. I then used windows explorer to go look at the large files in the iPhone directory, and when I double-clicked to view, XP automatically copied them to the 'My Pictures' folder, which was perfect for this small number of files - I could then move them to the right folder. Maybe someone else may have the same luck! The largest file I coped was 225MB
Thanks again!

Great time saving post!!! I even bought both manuals and it didn't say anything about that! I wanted to get some of the photos off of the phone and wasn't able to do it in a bi-directional way with itunes sync.

Thanks again!

I tried this but when I opened Scanner and camera wizard it did not give me the option to select a device. I can either click next or advanced users but either way i can only access the pictured on my camera roll and not on the library. any suggestion as to how I can transfer them to another pc and delete one or two of them?

Great tip! It works!!! Thanks!!

This method worked, but didn't keep the chronological order of the pics that I took once they were copied to my computer. Is there any way of retaining the order of the pics from the iPhone to my computer?