How do I get photos off my Apple iPhone?

You can use iPhoto to get the pictures off the phone.

I understand where your fear is coming from. If you do a restore on the phone, you will lose any pictures you haven't imported yet. It should really warn you about that specifically because most people don't consider that they have any valuable data on an iPod that didn't come from their computer, so it is always "safe" to do the restore. This changes with the iPhone because of the camera. (It also changes a little bit with games on the 5G iPod because there is the potential to lose your high score data, but most people care about their photos a lot more than their high score from a game.)

How getting the photos off my iphone for WindowsXP or Vista?

I discovered the answer to the above question. When you plug the iPhone into a Windows computer, it will show up in Windows Explorer as a disk drive. The only documents that will show up in Windows Explorer within the iPhone will be the "Camera Roll" photos that were taken with the iPhone. You can just drag them into a folder on the computer.

Hello is there way i can get the pictures from the iphone to the computer , not the ones in camera roll??

could someone please post an answer to the question above me, how can we get the photos off the iphone that are not in the camera roll(for instance a bunch of iphoto albums that are on the iphone but got deleted from the computer) please, thanks

I too want to know how to get my pictures that aren't in the camera roll back on my PC. I have 600mb of pics on my iphone that got lost on my Pc and I want them back without having to email them one by one...

Hi Dave,

thanks for all the useful stuff on your site... I've googled problems several times and found answers on your pages. V helpful.

I'm just dropping you a line to be a smart arse... you've got header-paper.jpg (your banner image) displaying 70 pixels wider than the image should be... is that on purpose for the jaggy text styling?

Cheers
Bill

Thank you Dave!
I found you site very simple, usable and usefull.

This aswer was so "obvious" that I really can't find the solution by myself but you gave me the right answer!

Thank you and congrats for your cool site! :-)

I'm also wondering how to get non-iphone-taken pictures off of my iphone. My hard-drive crashed and I lost all of my pictures. Fortunately, some were backed up on my iphone, but I want to get them off of there and on to my new computer -- any way to do it???

Hi, I used to be able to get pictures from my iPhone by the means above, however for some reason when I plug my iPhone into my computer, I click on my iPhone in my computer to just drag the pictures across and now it won't show any of them up, I'm really frustrated and hate technology as it is, please help :P

I have a very big problem with my iPhone.
I snap and capture images with my iphone camera but it doesn't display on the CAMERA ROLL folder. Does anybody know what i'm supposed to do about it.
Thanks

Pete, it looks like you might need to backup your phone data and "restore" your iPhone. See here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1183455&tstart=0

Good luck, let us know how it goes!

I just had a similar problem to some of you, in which my hard drive crashed and i lost all my photos. i searched around on how to get them off my iphone and back on to my iphoto, and finally cam across this program. $20. its worth it.

http://www.jaredmendelewicz.com/blog/how-to-get-photos-music-notes-and-data-off-of-your-iphone/

My computer was stolen and I needed to get photos (not in Camera Roll) from my iPhone. I just paid the $20 for the PhoneView program and it worked like a charm.

Thanks

Kevin

It is worth noting that Dave's solution also works on Mac OS 10.4.11. Thanks Dave.

I found "Image Capture" (you didn't mention it was an application, so I searched and found it) and tried what you suggested. When I click on download, however, nothing happens. Tried this with just one photo selected, as well as "Select All."

Any suggestions?

William, I readdressed this topic in another blog post that has more troubleshooting advice too. Hope this helps you out:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_get_pictures_off_apple_iphone.html

if you are windows platform try "uTunePhotos" that can add,delete,export,rename, reorder,backup and restor phto albums and camera roll.

How do I get the photos off my iPhone(3g)? It does not show the photo folder it used to show every time i plugged my phone in.

Thanks

Can you retrieve a photo that you have accidentally deleted from your iphone?

i erase all setting and file in my iphone. but after erasing, the phone just showed apple icon (black background screen) for long time and shows no progress. How the iphone will de-activate? or any other should be done? pls help. tq

hello, im trying to download my pictures off my iphone to my computer windows xp, but when i plug it in nothing comes up, not even in my computer, they used to come up before i downloaded itunes, now absolutley nothing comes up, it is not even in my files no where to be seen, please help, no wizard comes up, i have tried everything.

Hey Thanks A LOT!!!!! Greg from Nov 8th 2007 HELPED ME A LOT!!!!!!! Thanks Again, it's too bad Windows did'nt run IPHONE! THX 4 the advice!!!

Looking for the iphone in Windows is EAZY!

I have vista. I was able precviously to just plug in my iphone and my pictures downloaded. I have tried all of your suggestions and nothing is download; I just went on a trip and have several photos I want to put on the computer. They are in the camera roll but will not go on my commputer. I have looked in windows explorer, etc.

Hi!

Iwas browing through the chain on how to download pics from my iphone to my laptop- I saw someone write that when plugged-in to a windows laptop it will show as disk drive and i can simply copy-paste the photos!! For some reason though I am not able to see any additional disk drives when I plug in my phone and dont know what to do- Could you please help/clarify!!??

a friend of mine dowload her pictures in my computer(HP) she has a mac. Now her camera is no longer working. How can you help me help her?

Thanks for this tip, now do you or anyone else out there know how to retrieve photos that you DIDN'T take on your iPhone from your iPhone. My computer died and I want to get the photos that I had previously sync-ed to my iPhone back onto my new MacBook.

Thank you so much. This app (image capture) is the easiest way ever to get all your pictures from your iphone to computer
it works great... and by the way the apple retail employees don't know ANYTHING!!!

Hello,
I erased the pics in my iphone using image capture, but now, after that when i try to make some photos they don't appear in the camera roll.
WHAT CAN I DO?
(The rest of the Photo albums are still there.)

Thanks,
Ja'el.

I made an app - PhotoToMac - to transfer iPhone camera roll photos to your Mac over WiFi.

More info about PhotoToMac: http://www.galarina.eu/PhotoToMac/Home.html

I just restored my iPhone back to factory settings and then downloaded my photos from iTunes back onto the iPhone. They are no longer in camera roll and now I cannot delete any photos. How do I delete photos on my iPhone now?

Thanks, Dave -- this was so super easy and helpful! I just downloaded 1K photos off my phone in about 5 minutes. You're a lifesaver. :)

~ M

Hi Dave,

1. What are the steps to be followed to download photos from my iphone to my HP laptop with XP windows .

2. Steps to download songs from my Computer into IPHONE.

Please provide me step by step procedure for my above questions to my mail id yajaman_83@hotmail.com. Thank u sir.

Regards,
Y.Pravin.

you can take a screenshot of each photo on your ihone and it will appear in ur camera roll

Wow. I love you. I detest iphoto with a passion, the image capture thing works amazingly.

Thank you so much!

Help!!! I can take pictures on my iPhone 3G, and i can download them off....BUT....the new ones do NOT show up on the camera roll on the phone. They are there, but I cannot see them on my phone - why not????? Pls help!!!!

hi,i can't transfer photos from my iphone(camera roll) to my windows vista and i have installed itunes but it ddoesn't seem to help.pls help.thanx in advance

Hey! Serious problem... I bought a new HP Pavilion Entertainment PC with Windows Vista. But now when i connect my I phone to it it just opens Itunes and not anything that says download photos... like my old laptop did... Now is there any way I can get my Pictures down?
Thanks for the Help

Hi, thanks for this tip, works great, simple & effective file transfer!

I really hate i tunes sync thing & eventually worked out how to turn it off.

nothing is showing up when i connect my iPhone 3GS into my windowsXP laptop. there's the iPhone icon as a drive but no files/pictures.

thanks,
Sirjune

Dave just upgraded to new iphone and cant get photos off my old iphone. i thought this was not probem but on old iphone i see there is no service up top. i was told i could still get these photos off old iphone to itunes?

Pete, plug your phone into your computer and - if you've a Mac - run ImageCapture. It should see all the photos on your old phone and let you copy them onto your computer itself.

thanks so much for the info; how funny to realize i didn't know how to get pics off my iphone other than email...
muchos gracias

I followed the instructions for the XP Camera Wizard, downloaded my camera photos from the camera roll to a folder, now all the pictures show up in the folder, HOWEVER they are no longer in the order (sequence) they were taken. They are now in no order. Its as if the pictures have been downloaded based on some other sort order. Nothing is in sequence. I now have to go in and sort them and rename them to keep the order they were taken. Why did the download do this?

I have noticed a number of people have been trying to get photos OFF their iphone (that AREN'T in "Camera Roll") and onto their computer.

Dave, you suggested "Image Capture" but that seems to only select the photos that are in "Camera Roll" NOT my various Menus/albums of photos on my iphone.

Is there something I need to select in Image Capture so that it will let me copy the other images across?

I can't believe how easy that was, Dave. Thanks for the brain-dead tutorial!

Cheers!

What if you have a jailbroken iphone and a Mac running Tiger? How can I pull my pictures that I've taken off of my iphone. And no, I've shut off Internet services on my iphone. Too $.

Dude -- thank you so much. Like someone else above I detest iPhoto. Just got the iPhone and was starting to despair of how to get the photos off. (Had expected to be able to see the disk image on desktop and just drag and drop like my digital camera.

Why can't apple just tell us about Image Capture in the iphone manual?!

Cheers!

Hi Dave, I have a problem that others here seem to be having, but if it was answered, I couldn't find it in the comments. I use windows vista, and when I connect my iphone, the camera roll folder doesn't open up automatically as it used to. I've no idea why it stopped doing this. The drive isn't there when I check 'my computer' either. How do I get my camera roll pics into my laptop?? :(

Ok, Mine and my wifes iPhones wont even show up in XP with the new iphone versions, yet my bro-inlaws jailbroke phone does still?

I am using xp and I have the same problem as many of the windows users above mention.

I used to be able to get the photos off by just connecting my iphone and camera and picture wizard would ask to transfer the pictures. Last month this just stopped working. I plug in my iphone and the camera wizard doesn't even pop-up anymore. Going through "My Computer" the device will show up but when I right click and choose to export pictures it says the device is busy and could not be completed.

This is a very frustrating issue as I am continuing to use the phone for pictures and they are growing in number quickly with no solution to get them off. Dave, please help us windows users solve this problem.
Thanks

hi i just wondered how do i just delete pictures off the iphone as i have no interest in keeping certain pictures but cant get rid of them i know how to delete the camera roll pictures but not the photo library ones can anyone please help thank you

Justin, I'll work on a new article on how to work with photos on your iPod / iPhone (it's the same process) from Windows iTunes. That's your answer too, Tracey: You can only manage the photos within iTunes, not on the phone. And yes, it's clunky.

Here is a good article for Windows user. I just save my iphone photo using the suggested method.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hack-your-iphone-back-up-your-data/

you are the Legend DAVE

i lost my photos by sync, how do i get them back?????

tks for the clear directions Dave; the Mac is new to me as a former W user.