iPhone 15 iOS 17.1.1 PC connection
iPhone 15, iOS 17
If you are using iCloud Photos on the phone, other ways of getting access to your iPhone photos from your PC are to
Install iCloud Photos for Windows
Set up and use iCloud Photos on your Windows PC - Apple Support
Use the iCloud Web interface
What version of iTunes for Windows are you running? Managing an iPhone 15 from a PC requires "Windows 10 or later using iTunes 12.12.10 or later (free download from itunes.com/download)".
iPhone 15 - Technical Specifications
That's also what the iPhone 13 Technical Specifications page in the Apple Support archives says now. However, a copy of the iPhone 13 Technical Specifications from 12/21/2021, on the Wayback Archive site, shows that originally the requirements for managing an iPhone 13 from a PC were "Windows 7 or later using iTunes 12.10.10 or later (free download from itunes.com/download)"
Maybe you just need to upgrade from iTunes 12.10.10 to iTunes 12.12.10?!?
Did you unlock the iPhone once plugged into the PC? In This PC where you see all your drives it should appear also the iPhone
With a PC you see the iPhone photo folder as you normally see an external memory drive. You can copy and transfer the photos to your PC
Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac or PC – Apple Support
"This tells me that the IPhone is not allowing access to the PC.
Some iPhone setting somewhere that I do not know about."
Which means the PC is not a trusted device, try to login into your Apple ID and check it
Yes, the phone is unlocked.
Again, this phenomena started with the new iPhone 15;
Before, when I connected my phone to my laptop, a window appeared asking if I wanted to allow the pc to see my photos. This no longer happens;
I tried to use iTunes for this exercise, there is no device icon beside the Music drop-down either
it's very strange usually when you get things like it's because either there's corrupt file in Windows like a DLL or best to reset the iPhone. problem is to format Windows is demanding, did you try to ask to the Windows Support
There is NO ICON for the iPhone inside File Manager
This started when I upgraded from iPhone 13 to 15
This tells me that the IPhone is not allowing access to the PC.
Some iPhone setting somewhere that I do not know about.
I have tried to transfer using a USB cable; back to square 1; there is no access from iPhone to PC!
unable to access iPhone pictures from PC
