Windows recognizes iPhone as a digital camera?

[likemyorbs]

So I'm bored at work right now and I just plugged my iPhone into my work pc with no iTunes. It recognizes it as a digital camera and shows me all my pics. My question is if it's that easy to get all your pics copied off your iPhone on windows, why is it a whole process on mac? Unless I'm missing something and it's just as easy on mac? Because I know you can't do it on iTunes...

 

[jason72780]

When I plug my phone in, iPhoto opens up and with 1 click imports them in. Not a hard process at all.

 

[heehee]

When I plug my phone in, iPhoto opens up and with 1 click imports them in. Not a hard process at all.

What he said.

I actually get annoy when iphoto opens when I plug in my iphone. I turned it off.

 

[ravenvii]

Image Capture pops up for me, not iPhoto.

(I don't have iPhoto installed, see.)

 

[175170]

When I plug my phone in, iPhoto opens up and with 1 click imports them in. Not a hard process at all.

Same here.
Don't know where the setting is though...

 

[andreab35]

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On Vista my iPhone was always recognized as a camera. Vista is over now.
But anyways, when I plug in my iPhone, iTunes opens up on my Mac. To import photos, I just open iPhoto myself.

 

[Small White Car]

This thread is STRANGE.

"I don't know how this works on a Mac. I assume it's hard, why did they make it hard??"

Like...what the heck?

 

[likemyorbs]

This thread is STRANGE.

"I don't know how this works on a Mac. I assume it's hard, why did they make it hard??"

Like...what the heck?

No what I meant was it's more difficult to have to open iPhoto to do it rather than just coming up as a device in finder

 

[Small White Car]

No what I meant was it's more difficult to have to open iPhoto to do it rather than just coming up as a device in finder

Opening a new finder window then selecting the camera: 2 clicks
Opening iPhoto and selecting the camera: 2 clicks


After that you'd have to copy/import them to your drive exactly the same.
Dunno...seems pretty much the same to me.

(And people who don't like iPhoto can use Image Capture instead, so they have that choice.)

 

[Rusalka]

Erm, maybe your mac is defective? cause annoyingly iPhoto came up every time i plugged my phone in, ect.

 

[Small White Car]

Erm, maybe your mac is defective? cause annoyingly iPhoto came up every time i plugged my phone in, ect.

If it's annoying you then go to Image Capture and turn it off. No reason an optional setting should annoy anyone. Turn it off.