transfering photos from iphone to pc without itunes
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If you have them backed up to iCloud you can just log in to www.icloud.com with your Apple ID and download them.
Whoozit said:
Dropbox, set auto sync. Done. The free account is limited to 2GB but I find Dropbox so useful I'm happy to pay for more space.
I used drop box before but now have aload of photos I can't get rid off choking up my allowance! there seems to be no mechanism to delete all or in large numbers. Is this correct??Twentyfour7 said:
Whoozit said:
Dropbox, set auto sync. Done. The free account is limited to 2GB but I find Dropbox so useful I'm happy to pay for more space.
I used drop box before but now have aload of photos I can't get rid off choking up my allowance! there seems to be no mechanism to delete all or in large numbers. Is this correct??so I downloaded dropbox which I have used before but can't see photos .
It is saying I have not enough space to download photos from phone and they want me to pay £95 a year! to upgrade to lowest level
on google photos it appears I have aload of photos on there which are the ones I cannot delete easily
so still no further forward and I am also intermittently getting the pop up... saying usb not recognised when i put plug my phone in ... ugghhhh!
It is saying I have not enough space to download photos from phone and they want me to pay £95 a year! to upgrade to lowest level
on google photos it appears I have aload of photos on there which are the ones I cannot delete easily
so still no further forward and I am also intermittently getting the pop up... saying usb not recognised when i put plug my phone in ... ugghhhh!
Twentyfour7 said:
so I downloaded dropbox which I have used before but can't see photos .
It is saying I have not enough space to download photos from phone and they want me to pay £95 a year! to upgrade to lowest level
on google photos it appears I have aload of photos on there which are the ones I cannot delete easily
so still no further forward and I am also intermittently getting the pop up... saying usb not recognised when i put plug my phone in ... ugghhhh!
On your phone, in Dropbox turn off the auto camera/photos backup. It is saying I have not enough space to download photos from phone and they want me to pay £95 a year! to upgrade to lowest level
on google photos it appears I have aload of photos on there which are the ones I cannot delete easily
so still no further forward and I am also intermittently getting the pop up... saying usb not recognised when i put plug my phone in ... ugghhhh!
Open Dropbox on your computer. It uses a file explorer interface so it's easy to navigate. Move the photos from the Dropbox folder to where you want them. Make sure they're deleted from Dropbox.
Then go to the phone, manually bulk move the "new" photos to Dropbox. Repeat second paragraph.
It is likely that iMazing can help and for free as it will download the Apple Mobile Support package that will probably allow the connected iPhone to trust the computer (vital!!) and then have photos dragged and dropped from the storage to the computer.
If you do not get the "trust this computer" message on the iPhone, it will all fail with a cable.
If you do not get the "trust this computer" message on the iPhone, it will all fail with a cable.
Others have suggested the ways I’d expect to get photos onto my pc. But the icloud is as glitchy AF as is the USB direct connect.
I got myself into a situation where my phone was maxed out and I couldn’t use the cloud to transfer as it was too full and kept reporting errors. So I used the usb connect which would only copy a couple of random images at a time - I couldn’t drag / drop more than ten at a time. I spent weeks moving photos over individually checking they’d copied. Eventually I got under the iCloud limit, and managed to use the cloud to transfer. But again, that was glitchy, and all a bit random.
Painful when you have a few thousand images on your phone.
(Don’t get me started about how icloud also limits / reduces your photo resolution if you choose to transfer JPEG’s)
My lesson is to regularly transfer the photos and stay way under the iCloud storage limit. I think iphones become glitchy when they are near internal storage limits too.
Reading this thread with interest in case any other methods exist.
I got myself into a situation where my phone was maxed out and I couldn’t use the cloud to transfer as it was too full and kept reporting errors. So I used the usb connect which would only copy a couple of random images at a time - I couldn’t drag / drop more than ten at a time. I spent weeks moving photos over individually checking they’d copied. Eventually I got under the iCloud limit, and managed to use the cloud to transfer. But again, that was glitchy, and all a bit random.
Painful when you have a few thousand images on your phone.
(Don’t get me started about how icloud also limits / reduces your photo resolution if you choose to transfer JPEG’s)
My lesson is to regularly transfer the photos and stay way under the iCloud storage limit. I think iphones become glitchy when they are near internal storage limits too.
Reading this thread with interest in case any other methods exist.
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