When I plug in my iPhone 5 into my PC, I should be able to see a new external drive connect. I can do that with my older iphone 4/4s...but not with my iphone 5. Why? Is that feature gone???
I'm just trying to backup my photo's and videos onto my own hard drive...now I can't. *****!
Ya know, you may have gotten your answer by now, but I'd like to say a word for civility and against arrogance. I just read this thread and see that some folks think that we're all technologically savvy and know all the terminology that will make us sound like tech support. The reason we come to these forums, however, is that we most certainly are not of that ilk; otherwise, we wouldn't need these forums. We may need to ask more than once; we may need clarification. We may need terms explained. I have learned a lot about computers from kind, patient people who have been extremely generous with their time--I even learned HTML and began making and managing simple website for others, all by communicating one e-mail at a time with a small town newspaper editor whom I never met. Most recently, for example, I needed to ask what seemed like a very simple question about a mobile app, and not one person on that forum had an unkind word to say. They were patient. I learned about the app, about compatible file formats, and most importantly, I learned again that not everyone trolling these forums is as unkind as some of the others, whose comments I've seen on this one (I just learned the modern use of the term "trolling" about a month ago from a 78-year-old philosophy professor... and I'm 67).
rortiz77 wrote:
When I plug in my iPhone 5 into my PC, I should be able to see a new external drive connect. I can do that with my older iphone 4/4s...but not with my iphone 5. Why? Is that feature gone???
Appearing as an external hard drive was never a feature of any iPhone model or iOS version. The only way your older phones could do this is if they are jailbroken.
I'm just trying to backup my photo's and videos onto my own hard drive...now I can't. *****!
That's easily done as descibed here:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
If you have a problem inporting photos/videos, see this:
@modular747, sorry...but you're wrong. My current iPhone 4 is not, nor ever was jailbroke, and I when I plug it into my PC via USB, it shows us as an external drive. My other phone, iPhone 5, on the other hand does not.
Also, when I say PC, I mean a Windows 7 OS on non-apple hardware.
And, your links describe what it does for my iphone 4...but not iphone 5
Windows 7: Choose Start > Computer. Right-click on the logo of the device under Portable Devices
Incorrect. Your other phones are being detected as devices (cameras), not external "drives". You can't view or tranfer files to the phone like you could with an external drive.
Read the 2nd article I linked for you if your phone isn't detected as a camera in order to import photos.
Ugh. To the bigger point (don't want this to turn into symantic argument). It's not showing the camera on "My Computers". Thats the reason I'm posting. It still does it fine for my iphone 4.
ok, To answer my own question.
After you connect your iPhone 5 and see the "charging" icon on the phone. You have to swipe your phone to see the screen, which will reveal a pop-up screen that says, "Do you want to trust this computer?" After saying yes to this, then I see the icon for the phone on "My Computer".
Did you even read my last post or the article I referenced????
FHI, when you use completely incorrect terminology and make misleading statements in a tech support forum is a lot more than "symantics."
Sorry man but this is what he was talking about.
i was trying to do this too and the iPhone makes you trust the computer before opening as an external drive.
Why can't I use my iphone 5 as an external hard drive?
