How to get my photos off my iPhone before I restore it?
OK. I've bought my daughter an iPhone 5, so I'm having her old 4s. The thing is, she wants me to keep her pics and videos from her camera roll so she can keep them.
I need to restore the phone so I can change the carrier from Vodafone to Virgin so I can use it.
I've backed it up onto my PC, but her iPhone 5 will be erased if she plugs into my iTunes, and once I restore this phone I guess I won't be able to use that backup with the newly restored 4s.
I've also tried to backup to iCloud, but there's over 10gb of pics, and I'm not paying £28 for it.
I've found the backed up items in a file on my PC but they are encrypted so I can't see any of the photos.
My question is, how do I keep the stuff off the Camera Roll for her?
Is there a way I can view the items in a file on my computer, like I can with an external flash drive etc? I can't see it in "My Computer":(
Added (1). How can I save them to a file on my computer? I can't even find the iPhone on the PC. It's plugged in but I can't find it.
GRRRRR!
Ok so you go on to the photos then when you go on to the photo stream the u tap edit and tap on all the photos then save then to iCloud then after that when she has her Iphone 5 running then all what she needs to do is download then
Save the pics into a separate folder on your computer and voila.
You SHOULD be able to see the iPhone as a "Portable Media Device" of some sort in My Computer.
If it doesn't pop up, you will have to remove the iPhone drivers, uninstall iTunes, or try plugging the iPhone in another computer or use another usb cable.
I hope one of these solutions work, I've been in the same situation as you before and try these steps worked.
It also helps to use a Genuine Apple USB cable that came from the box, and not one from ebay etc
Once you see the iPhone in My Computer, you can open it up like a USB flash drive and all the photos and videos will be there. All you gotta do now is copy and paste the items to your computer.
You may try itool, it's a free iOS device manager, you can use it to copy the photos from iPhone to computer.
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