No iTunes photo tab

rahuf wrote:

years later, but I'm having this issue now, have tried all the suggestions, and do not see the Photos tab anywhere. so irksome!

Years later, it has changed.

Select your iPhone at top left.

The Photos tab will be in the left sidebar.

hi all

read the entire thread and tried everything.. This is what is currently popping up on my drop down list.. "choose folder" only leads to photos that are currently on my computer from the web cam and **** like that only 11 photos.. sooo not really sure what is going on or how to get my photos app to pop up on there..

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midsomerjambo wrote:

I don't mean to be rude and this is a genuine question - how can sopost's image look normal when the status bar at the bottom, with the iPhone connected, shows there are photos stored on the iPhone and yet the On My Device part of the sidebar doesn't have a Photos element from which to list and/or select the photos you want to import?

It's ok, you're not being rude. You're just assuming iTunes is for something it's not. It is not for importing photos and the bar at the bottom is only for informational purposes.

Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

iTunes may only be part of the equation for the device drivers it installs, but otherwise has nothing to do with importing photos. You PC will essentially treat your iPhone as a camera when it comes to importing images.

sopost's image is normal...

midsomerjambo wrote:

Umm...not particularly helpful. Look at the image sopost posted. Does that look like a Mac GUI to you?

But this IS the iTunes for Mac forum, so there’s that...

For iTunes for Windows users, you do not have the Apple Photos app.

See this -> iTunes for Windows: Add photos to iPod, iPhone, or iPad

I clicked on the iPad icon and got a window that gives details about the iPad. the colored bar at the bottom tells usage and one of the colors is photos. But I am unable to open any photos to sync or remove. Only tells how many megs of photos are on the iPad.

Hi,

I have precisely the same problem as sopost. I don't mean to be rude and this is a genuine question - how can sopost's image look normal when the status bar at the bottom, with the iPhone connected, shows there are photos stored on the iPhone and yet the On My Device part of the sidebar doesn't have a Photos element from which to list and/or select the photos you want to import? I want to list the photos that are actually stored on my iPhone 5S and copy them to my PC to edit and I don't want to have to do it via iCloud as that is so long-winded (I have to select the photos one at a time and I get a copy dialogue for each photo so the process is very long-winded, unless someone knows of an easier way and I can't see how you preserve the iPhone folder structure). I am using XP SP3 on my PC (my PC won't support a more up-to-date OS and for most of the time, it's capable of doing what I need it to do, so suggestions that I upgrade my hardware or re-equip with a Mac are not particularly welcome). From the iTunes help, it would appear that you need iTunes 12.5 to download to your PC from your iPhone and as this isn't supported on XP and therefore won't install, it looks like it's not an option for XP machines. So all you can do is copy photos onto the iPhone from the PC, not the other way around. Which of those are you more likely to want to do? Thought so.

I did find that I can use XP's Windows Explorer to copy and paste files from the iPhone to a folder on the PC but you lose some metadata including your iPhone Photos app folder structure. However I can live with that and in any case, I'm not sure you can preserve your iPhone folder structure even if you have Windows 7 or better as you end up using Windows Photo Gallery and not iTunes for the import (so why the version of iTunes is relevant, I have no idea). I'm a relative newcomer to the iPhone world and hitherto have used a digital camera for taking photos. My first foray into iPhone photography has left me a little disappointed but not so disappointed that I'm going to rush out and buy a new PC as i don't really think that'll solve this particular problem.

Regards, MSJ

Umm...not particularly helpful. Look at the image sopost posted. Does that look like a Mac GUI to you? Thought not. This is probably not the place to get into a debate over the relative merits of Macs and PCs but the link you provided is applicable to Macs only.

here's what I see when I click that icon:

Open Photos and set the photo library as your system library.

See this -> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414

Click the "iPad" button in the header at the upper-right:

You'll then see the normal tabs, including the Photos tab. You can also select "Show Sidebar" from the View menu and the interface will look much like it did in iTunes 10.

Regards.

Click on 'photos' across the top bar after clicking on your device (as show in the previous pic).

Or if you show the sidebar and select your iPad:

No?