iPhone 4 - Move Pictures from "Camera Roll" to "Photo Library"

You import them to your computer as you would from any other digital camera, then you select them to sync ( under the photos tab in itunes), and then you sync them to your iphone.

"To clarify: how do I do this "on the phone" without being tethered to iTunes? "

You cannot.

Photo library consist of photos synced to iphone from your computer, while Camera Roll is temporary storage for photos taken/saved from iphone ( until they can be imported to your computer, where you can organize them and sync whatever you like back to iphone).

" Is there a way to manage pictures on the phone without tethering?"

Not really.

Have a look at the manual:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf

The iphone is not intended to be an external drive, it mirrors you computer as set by syncing preferences.

Sorry.

You can leave feedback for Apple at:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

The idea is photos in the Camera Roll should be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera. Do you leave photos captured by any other digital camera on the camera - the photos captured by the camera are not imported by your computer?

Although photos in the Camera Roll are included with your iPhone's backup, it isn't a good idea to depend on that alone for these photos. If you restore your iPhone with iTunes if wanted or needed and there is a problem with your iPhone's backup in regards to this data and these photos were not imported by your computer as with any other digital camera, guess what?

This used to work !!.. I have found that the iphone 4 has stopped showing up on Explorer (in Vista) and I have run through the apparent fix which is to uninstall the Apple drivers. This solves the problem of explorer however also creates another problem in that iTunes no longer recognises the phone and hence you have to uninstall and reinstall iTunes which to say the least is a pain in the you know what....

Reinstalling iTunes reintroduces the problem of the phone not being seen by Explorer.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated...

Message was edited by: atlus

HI I thought I was getting crazy, I can see that upt to the 01-09-2010 I could transfer my pictures from my Iphone4 to my picasa. I can see hat im my picasa was created folder by date. Now I can not import my pictures any more.

HI All

I just discovered that if I use the original cable from apple that was shipped with my iphone the one that the connector is smaller and there is no hooks my windows 7 can see it on the explorer and Picasa can import the pictures. If I Use the cable I had before from my Ipod that the connector is lager I can not be seeing.