Can no longer transfer iphone pictures to pc
Please Help!
I have read through dozens of responses in your forum about the transfer of iPhone photographs to a PC.that does no good because the responses are conflicting. What makes me scratch my head the most is that apparently no one is aware that at one point in time you could plug your iPhone into the computer in the computer would automatically recognize it as a drive through which you could access the photos. I promise, I am not hallucinating. As recently as December I plug the iPhone 4s nto a Windows 8 laptop and transfer all the photographs off there to the computer. I did not engage in any other software or any existing program in either the iPhone or the computer. The operation was just as it is when reading a memory card plugged into the computer. The computer recognizes it, asks you what you want to do with it and let you do it. Incidentally, this same process worked on all six computers that I use at home and work. All of a sudden however, when I plug the iPhone 4s or my new iPhone 6 Plus into any of those computers, it does not recognize them as drives, you cannot find it in the directory tree of the computer and you cannot in any way locate photos.
someone please tell me what has changed. Some also say that you have to have the most recent iTunes on there. On the iPhone 4s the pictures are still in there but iTunes has never been used on that phone, yet, in the past I was able to see the picture! I hope I haven't complicated my question so much that no one understands it but I hope that someone out there can tell me that I'm not losing my mind and it was once possible to do this. In any case I just need to know how to get a lot of photographs off of the iPhone because the file size is so large that I can't back up to iCloud.
By the way, for those of you who want to regurgitate the notion that your phone has to be unlocked, please just save your time. It was never an issue that the phone was locked before but even if it were,I have unlocked the phone, unplug it and replug it, rebooted, Rachel all the gods of heaven and earth and all the moons, and all the rocks in the desert and it still does not work. I sure hope you did something really stupid looking me in the face and makes me feel like a fool. I would much rather feel like a fool for not knowing how to do it then to feel like a fool when I lose all these pictures that are so precious. Thank you!
iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1.2