when i connect my iPhone to my iMac the iPhone only appears in itunes ??

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when i connect my iPhone to my iMac the iPhone only appears in itunes ??

hi, i have an iphone 4 and when i connect it to my imac it appears on itunes devices list, but it does not show up on my mac desktop, need help,

Apple IMac 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Apple iOS 4.2

Posted on Jan 5, 2011 11:10 AM

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Allan Sampson

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Jan 5, 2011 11:28 AM in response to Owenuk

The iPhone won't show up on your Desktop or via the Finder as a connected external hard drive since the iPhone does not support disk mode. The iPhone does appear as a connected device via Windows Explorer with Windows for transferring photos/videos from the Camera Roll only. With a Mac, iPhoto or the Image Capture application can be used for this.

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Jan 5, 2011 11:29 AM in response to Owenuk

It's not supposed to show up on your desktop... only in iTunes. It can't be used as a removable storage device. The only exception is it should appear in iPhoto as it's viewed by it as a camera.

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