getting photos off iphone

you can just connect the phone to a windows pc, go to file explorer, click on iphone, select the pic folder and copy them to your desktop. This worked on my 2g iphone and our 3gs's never altered.

This only applies to pics taken with the phone, but you said they were so this should be easy.

Jeff

You can e-mail them to yourself.

The photo sync is ONE way - computer to iphone.

The photos must have been synced from the PC in the first place, so they should still be on the PC.

The iphone is not a back up device. The pics are optimized for viewing on iphone (reduced in quality) when they are sync to the iphone. They are not the same quality as the originally synced photos.

The transfer of photos from a computer to an iPhone via the iTunes sync process is a one way transfer process only - from the computer to the iPhone.

Photos transferred from a computer to an iPhone are optimized for viewing on the iPhone as part of the iTunes sync/transfer process. The original resolution of these photos is reduced, which is why Apple doesn't support transferring these photos in the opposite direction.

There are 3rd party paid utilities that provide for transferring these photos in the opposite direction, but such utilities are not supported by Apple and the original resolution of these photos will be lost in the process.

What happened to the original photos on the computer these photos were transferred from?

Photos captured by the iPhone are stored in the iPhone's Camera Roll.

When there are photos in the iPhone's Camera Roll, the iPhone is also detected as a digital camera when connected to a computer - the photos can be imported as with any other digital camera, which is not done by iTunes.

What is used on your client's computer for importing photos from a digital camera?

As provided, pics taken with iphone are not synced at all. They are treated differently.

You import them the same way yo would import pics from any digital camera.

Hi Allan,

When I sync my photos in iTunes on my 3G, the photos from my iphone go onto my mac, from what people are saying, this isn't the case but I have done it on numerious occasions. When I have a new set of photo's in my camera roll, I go to iTunes, sync the photo's and then the new pictures from my iPhone end up in iPhoto.

Is this wrong then? From what I've read, it only works from Mac - iPhone, not iPhone - Mac

Can you clarify this for me Allan,

Thanks

Adam

Sorry, but this is not the case.

iTunes does not handle the importing of photos from the iPhone's camera roll. The selection under the Photos tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes is for transferring photos from your computer to your iPhone only.

With a Mac, you can use iPhoto for importing photos from a digital camera including from the iPhone's camera roll - if you use iphoto for photo storage and management on your Mac, or the Image Capture application. This is not possible with iTunes.

HI Allan,

I must be doing it in iPhoto then. I could have sworn I'd done it in iTunes but obviously not.

I think I must have used iPhoto to get an album onto my iPhone too, as I used the same application to do both moves ie phone - mac and mac - phone.

Thanks for your speedy reply!

Adam