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?
Your previous post (top) implies he needed the additional software merely to copy them over, which they don’t. That’s what Torrey corrected.
Your following post correctly separates the software from the copying action.
Due to the OP’s declaration of being a relative Luddite it’s worth pointing out that manipulation software is not required merely to review/burn etc.
To the OP, I agree with others that the hit and miss nature of being detected is true. I’m not sure whether it’s any better with the Apple cable vs generic. My work pc is close to 100%.
I pull full size videos off my iphone with a USB cable all the time. I have some feeling that they only added this fairly recently though (like in the last year or two).
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.
The only rhyme or reason I’ve correlated is whether you have turned on and unlocked the phone first. If you don’t unlock it, it won’t prompt you with the “Trust?” button.
You have to use some kind of software. Your problem is that, for inexplicable reasons you refuse to use the software that is the easiest way to do it.
My original intent was for someone to tell me yes, you HAVE to use software, or no here is a way to do it without software.
You have fulfilled the former, and several others suggested the latter.
It turns out that something HAS changed. For 4+ years and three peoples’ iPhone in my house, I could never plug and go. I tried several times a year on multiple phones. Tonight, I was able to do just that. So it seems Apple changed to now allow it.
What is inexplicable is that Apple required stupid software to start with. The easiest way is the plug and go, no software.
Now we are all freed from our restraints. Liberation, my friends!