First, before connecting, by way of charging cord to computer usb, I make sure my iPhone 12 is on and my Windows 10 Photo Software is open. Once plugged into the computer, a question should pop up on your phone and you push "yes, accept or ok". This is how your computer connects to your iPhone. Then, in your Photo Software, you click on "Import". Any photos on your iPhone will come up and you simply pick the ones you want to transfer to your computer. You also have the choice of erasing the ones you chose on your iPhone or leaving them there. At least this is the way I do it on my Dell computer with Windows 10.
All are good options, Hal. I just hook my phone to my PC and a window pops up with options of how and where I want to transfer my photos. Also I select delete photos before the transfer happens because it goes really fast. Doing this saves space on my phone.
I am waiting till I can do it like Captain Kirk does it with his communicator. "Computer transfer pictures!" I have actually done it but I can't remember what I did the next time I want to do it so it takes waaaayyyyyy tooo long.
Oddly enough, I can't directly transfer photos from my iPhone to my Mac Mini, although both are Apple products. Even when I plug the phone into the Mac Mini, the only options I have is to email it to myself. Without even plugging it in, I can directly transfer a photo from my iPhone to Michelle's iPhone, but not to my Mac Mini. My digital camera I can plug in and transfer photos easily, and I was able to do so with my Macbook Pro. It's not a big problem because I don't use the camera in my iPhone much anyhow, but that's a part of the reason why.
Yeah, but I don't generally know what's in iCloud and what's on my computer. When I plug my iPhone into my Mac Mini, it recognizes the connection because it will charge via the USB port but, unlike my MacBook, it doesn't show up as a device.
There's a setting that automatically shares photos between your Apple devices (the ones tied to your Apple ID). I had to turn it off because I didn't WANT every photo on my phone to automatically show up on my iPad and MacBook. Of course I can't remember where that setting is so I'm no help. Where's @Yvonne Smith when we need her??
Yeah, that's a problem too. The hard drive on my first MacBook was filled with every photo that I ever took on any of my other Apple devices. I don't want my photos to automatically show up on my Mac Mini, but I would like to be able to move one there when I choose to.
This has never been a problem for me because I want all of the photos that I take with my phone to also be on the iPads. I use the phone to take the pictures because it is a much better size to carry around, but the whole idea is then to have the picture on my iPad, just like the rest of you want with the computer. I love that I can take the photo with my phone and it is automatically sent to my other Apple devices, with no connections or usb cords required. I will see if I can find that setting for you, @Beth Gallagher. I would think it would be in your Apple ID settings. Try that and then iCloud, then Photos. It appears that when you choose icloud photos then they are accessible from any apple device that you have . If you store the photos just in your phone and not in the cloud, then they would not share unless you used Airdrop to share them. Then, you would have the same problem, in reverse.
Thanks, Yvonne, but don't trouble yourself. I managed to turn that feature off when I set up my new phone initially but haven't looked for it since. I thought maybe you'd have a tip for Ken.
I can plug my iPhone Mini12 into my Windows 10 computer and Drag n' Drop pics from the phone to the PC as though the phone were any other external storage device...but it never disconnects gracefully. There is no "Eject" option. I get error messages. There is a free software product for all PCs called MobiMover that lays on top of iTunes and provides a more User Friendly interface, including for the File Transfer function. In fact, iTunes is the only way to transfer photos from a Windows pc to an Apple phone...you cannot Drag n' Drop in that direction.
To get back to Hal's issue... he doesn't have an iPhone so many of these suggestions aren't going to apply. I don't know anything about his phone but typically there is a USB charging cord for a phone that could be plugged into his Windows desktop, then files simply "dragged and dropped." (As @Nancy Hart suggested early on in the thread.)