iPhone photos to PC: What is your favorite method to transfer iPhone photos to your PC? I watched a video that showed how to change the devise driver so Windows would see the iPhone as...

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

What is your favorite method to transfer iPhone photos to your PC? I watched a video that showed how to change the devise driver so Windows would see the iPhone as a USB device instead of trying to open it with iTunes. Then you could just connect the phone and download the photos without having to install iTunes first. Your thoughts.

BebuLamar

I simply connect the IPhone to my PC. Tap on the phone and allow the PC to access it. Then the phone will appears as a drive to the PC. You can copy from the phone to the PC but if you copy from the PC to the Phone, the phone won't see the pictures.

vanbr

I use the FileMaster app on the iPhone. It allows the PC to connect to the iPhone over a common WiFi network and make direct transfers via a web page address. The Cable connection is faster, but this works nicely too.

a6k Loc: Detroit & Sanibel

If you have a OneDrive account you can save the pics to your OneDrive space. That space will show up in your Windows Explorer (the Windows file manager) as a "drive". There is an iPhone app for OneDrive and once it is installed then OneDrive becomes a useable option for the iPhone's "Files" app. If you are using Windows and don't have a OneDrive account you are losing a lot of functionality.

This has the added advantage over some other solutions of being A] good immediate backup and B] can be done from anywhere and can be accessed from any computer anywhere in the world that has internet and C] is already on your computer when you get home.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

gvarner wrote:

What is your favorite method to transfer iPhone photos to your PC? I watched a video that showed how to change the devise driver so Windows would see the iPhone as a USB device instead of trying to open it with iTunes. Then you could just connect the phone and download the photos without having to install iTunes first. Your thoughts.

Email
Easy from any location any time and can email to other staff any where any time as well.
Perhaps not as elegant as some other ways but works well including clients.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

That this even appears as a topic is further proof that "Apple is intuitive" is total crap. I have an android phone and transferring the photos is so simple how to do it just never appears as a topic. My wife has an iPhone. Moving her photos to her PC is a royal pain. You should not need and app or an intermediate cloud drive to move full sized copies to your PC. The free part of iCloud is pretty small if you want full size copies there, and after transfer deleting from iCloud is REALLY a pain. Don't know what the intuitive part is about any of it.

scaudill Loc: Rock Hill, SC

I usually just send the pictures to my email address and access it from the computer I will be working from.

BebuLamar

dsmeltz wrote:

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Oh! I never have a Mac so I can't really comment on it (well I did have the Mac II but that doesn't count right). But I have the IPhone as my company issue the IPhone to me. I have some audio recording in the form of *.wav files. They are 16bit 44Khz uncompressed so relatively large. These files are in the server at work and accessible with my PC or Windows Laptop. I want to transfer these files onto the IPhone so that I can play the signal into one of our machine to set it up. I can't transfer the file from the PC to the Iphone. I had to borrow a fellow Samsung Galaxy to do the job. Some how apple makes file transfer very difficult.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I both agree and disagree with your initial statement. The products isolated to themselves are rather intuitive. Connectivity can be a complete disaster. I'd have thought, intuitively, that simply connecting, vis USB, the phone to an iMac would allow me to transfer files. Nope, that doesn't happen. I have to fumble around with iTunes and generally that a convoluted mess. I should just be able to RDC (MS term) or ftp the files. Neither of those work either. Jailbreak does, but I don't really feel comfortable with that process.
--Bob

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bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Install the Lightroom phone app. Set up Lightroom Classic to sync photos. Then shoot pictures on your phone. The images will be on your PC and in your catalog as you shoot.

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

don't know why, but ALL pics on my iphone show up on my macbook pro. in Photos, and i don't do a thing.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

When I connect my iPhone to my computer it shows up in Windows 10 File Explorer as a drive. I do this regularly and have never had any issues.

Andy

BebuLamar

AndyH wrote:

When I connect my iPhone to my computer it shows up in Windows 10 File Explorer as a drive. I do this regularly and have never had any issues.

Andy

Yes it works fine and I just have to allow that on the IPhone. However, I can copy images from the Iphone to the PC but not from the PC to the IPhone.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

gvarner wrote:

What is your favorite method to transfer iPhone photos to your PC? I watched a video that showed how to change the devise driver so Windows would see the iPhone as a USB device instead of trying to open it with iTunes. Then you could just connect the phone and download the photos without having to install iTunes first. Your thoughts.

Every morning, when I sync my iPhone to iTunes, Dropbox jumps in and hoovers any new images from the phone to a Camera Upload app. It is also relatively simple to email the image to your account and access it on the desktop.

JohnDaly24 Loc: Nevada City, CA

My question is on one more level. If you are able to get your photos onto your MacBook, then how do you get them in to Lightroom