Why can't my iPhoto see my iPhone?

I'm trying to plug in my iPhone so I can import my photos on iPhoto but it doesn't show up… It just says 'Apple iPhone' and it doesn't show any photos. Not my acual iPhone name and it doesn't have any of my pictures… How can I get my acual iphone to show up on iPhoto so I can import my photos?

Is your iPhoto up to date? Did you try restarting your computer?

Same problem here.iPhoto was fine with my 3GS, but the 4S that I've just got is recognized, but iPhoto does not see that there are photos in it for downloading

If your trying to import photos into your iphone try these steps.
plug in your iphone
open itunes
go into your iphone
around the top of the browser, it should say "photos" and it should say something like "sync photos from" and it gives you a choice. In this case it would be iphoto, so choose iphoto, and choose what you want to import into your iphone.

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