My wife’s phone has lots of pics/vids of the kids etc. I’d like to print some of them out, burn vids to DVD, etc. When I try to text them to myself, or send them to my email address, the stupid phone compresses them, losing any decent resolution. Using a cord to USB, the computer doesn’t read the phone. I don’t want to install a stinkin program like iTunes on my computer.
With my phone (Samsung), I plug it into any computer USB and the computer will treat the phone as an external drive, allowing super quick and easy transfer of full files back and forth. Why is Apple such assholes about this stuff?
When I email photos it gives me several options for image size before it sends, including “full size†so I don’t know what your problem is there.
Also, I can go to my local photo lab with a USB cord and transfer photos right to them and they print them out, photo quality, in minutes. They can even res them up to poster size.
Also you can load them on to your computer using iPhoto or any number of other image programs.
Again, I’m not really sure what your hold up is. It really couldn’t be any easier to do this.
I used to be frustrated with this too (work phone is an iPhone 6). For some reason recently (last few weeks) I’ve been able to plug in my phone via USB to my laptop and have the option to allow access to media files. Then I am able to copy the original photos from my phone to my laptop.
Don’t know what changed to allow that but I do get a pop up on the phone asking permission to access the camera photos folder.
I used to be frustrated with this too (work phone is an iPhone 6). For some reason recently (last few weeks) I’ve been able to plug in my phone via USB to my laptop and have the option to allow access to media files. Then I am able to copy the original photos from my phone to my laptop.
Don’t know what changed to allow that but I do get a pop up on the phone asking permission to access the camera photos folder.
Thanks, according to the poster above you, it works for him/her too. I haven’t tried it lately.
Maybe something has changed, and Apple pulled their heads out of their proprietary antiquated asses. We’ll see tonight when I get home.
I have an iPhone 6 work phone. I have been able to drag and drop to my wife’s Lenovo hybrid tablet/laptop using the method mentioned above for at least a year and a half (which was when I first tried). I generally use her laptop as an intermediary connection to drag and drop straight to a 1TB external back-up drive which I also hook up to the laptop via USB. Maybe one day we’ll actually view the 1,000s of kid pics and videos we’ve taken…
I used to be frustrated with this too (work phone is an iPhone 6). For some reason recently (last few weeks) I’ve been able to plug in my phone via USB to my laptop and have the option to allow access to media files. Then I am able to copy the original photos from my phone to my laptop.
Don’t know what changed to allow that but I do get a pop up on the phone asking permission to access the camera photos folder.
Thanks, according to the poster above you, it works for him/her too. I haven’t tried it lately.
Maybe something has changed, and Apple pulled their heads out of their proprietary antiquated asses. We’ll see tonight when I get home.
Uh, I think maybe you should pull your head out of your ass.
Getting/printing photos off of an iPhone has NEVER BEEN difficult.
With my phone (Samsung), I plug it into any computer USB and the computer will treat the phone as an external drive, allowing super quick and easy transfer of full files back and forth. Why is Apple such assholes about this stuff?
Is there a way to do this?
Yes using the same method. As mentioned earlier the only trick is your phone should ask if you trust the computer. If you are using some 3rd party USB cable it might not be able to transfer data, but most of them can.
I do this about once a month to pull all the pictures and locally back the iPhone. Pull the pictures using the phone as an external drive, backup using iTunes.
Uh, I think maybe you should pull your head out of your ass.
Getting/printing photos off of an iPhone has NEVER BEEN difficult.
Sorry I have offended Apple-lovers out there.
I am a dinosaur. I do not download apps to my phones. None. I don’t upload shit to iCloud, or use GoogleDrive or anything. I’d prefer to not install Apple iTunes software on my computer.
I am sure I am deluding myself into thinking I am protecting my privacy by avoiding these things - I’m certain if I was really honest with myself I would acknowledge that there is no privacy any longer. If I have a cell phone, or use the internet at all, Big Brother (or whomever) knows all and has access to everything.
But by my methods of operation (i.e. not installing apps and agreeing to "this app (and therefore the app company) must access your contacts, history, pictures, etc),in my mind there is difference between someone covertly coming in to stick their dick in my ass while I sleep soundly, and me consciously and willingly bending over and spreading my cheeks.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
No. You’ve offended common sense and simplicity. Also you completely ignored my original reply.
When you email photos from an iPhone it prompts you automatically to select an impage size. Your choices include full size.
Did you even try that?
I am a dinosaur. I do not download apps to my phones. None. I don’t upload shit to iCloud, or use GoogleDrive or anything. I’d prefer to not install Apple iTunes software on my computer.
None of those things need to be done to email yourself full size photos. My son could do this since he was 5.
But by my methods of operation (i.e. not installing apps and agreeing to "this app (and therefore the app company) must access your contacts, history, pictures, etc),in my mind there is difference between someone covertly coming in to stick their dick in my ass while I sleep soundly, and me consciously and willingly bending over and spreading my cheeks.
This has absolutely fuck all to do with accessing and printing photos.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
You’ll need iTunes, iPhoto or some other photo editing program for that. Is there some kind of phobia you suffer from that prevents from using photo editing software?
Maybe you do this at your local photo lab. You know, like I mentioned in my original reply?
I probably should not have included the word “pics”, and just used the more difficult situation of the large video files, knowing that if I could lick that problem, then I’d never have problems with photos either.
I probably should not have included the word “pics”, and just used the more difficult situation of the large video files, knowing that if I could lick that problem, then I’d never have problems with photos either.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
You’ll need iTunes, iPhoto or some other photo editing program for that. Is there some kind of phobia you suffer from that prevents from using photo editing software?
Maybe you do this at your local photo lab. You know, like I mentioned in my original reply?
When you pull them off using the iPhone as a simple external drive, you just get .jpg and .mov files and can use all the native applications that come with a PC to manipulate them. Granted there is much better photo editing software than comes native with a PC, but you don’t actually need it.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
Don’t give up too easily. Like I said I do it all the time, but I would say the phone only shows up as a drive about 50% of the time I plug it in. No rhyme or reason as to when it does that I have figured out. Once it shows up as a drive, it should only have one folder: DCIM which is where all the photos and videos are. they should be all in ,jpg and .mov file formats. If she uses the “live photo” feature then some of the photos might be a bit messed up.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
You’ll need iTunes, iPhoto or some other photo editing program for that. Is there some kind of phobia you suffer from that prevents from using photo editing software?
Maybe you do this at your local photo lab. You know, like I mentioned in my original reply?
When you pull them off using the iPhone as a simple external drive, you just get .jpg and .mov files and can use all the native applications that come with a PC to manipulate them. Granted there is much better photo editing software than comes native with a PC, but you don’t actually need it.
Isn’t that what I just fuvking wrote?
Pull photos off phone, use photo editing software.
I will again try to use the “just plug it into the USB port” method that I have tried many times over the years (and the computer has never been able to see inside the phone). Maybe something has changed since I last tried.
You’ll need iTunes, iPhoto or some other photo editing program for that. Is there some kind of phobia you suffer from that prevents from using photo editing software?
Maybe you do this at your local photo lab. You know, like I mentioned in my original reply?
When you pull them off using the iPhone as a simple external drive, you just get .jpg and .mov files and can use all the native applications that come with a PC to manipulate them. Granted there is much better photo editing software than comes native with a PC, but you don’t actually need it.
Isn’t that what I just fuvking wrote?
Pull photos off phone, use photo editing software.
What is everyone missing?
What we are missing, is a way to get full-res videos off the phone, without first going through a cloud service or proprietary software.
Several have suggested the way I have already tried numerous times with no success. One of the reports is that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Therefore, I will try that again.
(I have third-party photo- and video-editing software on my computer. The issue is getting the files TO that computer)
