Original iTunes Pictures option

There are two types of pictures on an iPhone and they need to be discussed separately.

Pictures (i.e. not just photos, but any pictures in an appropriate format) on your computer can be added to an iPod and displayed in the Photos app (on that iPod). I don't believe it has ever been possible to copy those pictures from that iPod to another computer. Somehow, I doubt it, and I think that may be what the Apple representative that you spoke with was referring to. I.E. ...

The Apple Rep’s answer is very lame. They say we need to go to the original computer where pictures were uploaded.

Pictures taken by the camera on an iPhone (or as screenshots of the phone) are photos and are stored in a separate folder to pictures copied from a computer to the phone. They can be viewed in the Photos app and will be in the Camera Roll folder. These photos can be copied onto the computer the iPod is usually synchronised with. It's done by using a cable connection between the iPod and the computer and then using Windows Explorer to look on the iPod at the Apple iPod device and then in the DCIM folder. You can copy the files from the iPod to the computer. In theory therefore, those photos can be accounted from an iPod to any computer, but I think that computer will need to have iTunes installed and there will be a delay while that iTunes sets up the iPod. Be careful not to let iTunes Sync with this iPod and it will delete any content (i.e. music) on the iPod from a different library. I'm not 100% sure that this is possible though.

iTunesnews wrote:

As we know, we can delete stuff from any computer but it’s never permanently deleted.

It's not that simple. The storage area used by a deleted item will eventually be used for (overwritten by) something else. Although government departments may be able to find old deleted items that have been overwritten, that's not something that you or I can do.