When you go to My Computer you usually see your iPhone as a camera. This allows you to browse the camera part of the phone and download or copy the images you want to your PC . When this happens a PC usually asks you in a dialogue box what you want to do with the pictures – eg. open with an image editing program or copy off and save images to your pc.

Well – sometimes the issue or problem arises where your iPhone doesn’t appear at all in “My Computer” and the dialogue for copying the pictures does not appear either. It is as if the phone part of the iPhone is no longer detected.  This means the photos can not be accessed and downloaded.

Fortunately this is an easy fix.

[message_box title=”” color=”red”]The trouble stems from having a photo that was not taken by the iPhone camera or by an app on the phone. [/message_box]

In this case the phone had an image that was downloaded from a website in the Camera Roll. By deleting this image and plugging the iPhone out and in again, the iPhone appeared again as a camera in the computer.

Authored by Ian

Ian Johnson is a Director of OJ Networks. He has been working in IT since 1995. Mentored by the best, Ian started as Technical Support Officer for an innovative dialup ISP in Brisbane “Hub Communications”. He progressed to become a Web Design and Programmer in ASP, ASP.NET and PHP during his time at “The Lab Development Group” with David Vandenberg amonst others. Ian has been working as a Consultant on the Sunshine Coast since 2001 and became a Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional (MCITP) Server Administrator in 2010 after which he formed OJ Networks. He has assisted numerous small businesses to reach their potential through IT Infrastructure Planning and Implementation and Web design, Development and Web Marketing. You can connect with Ian on Linked In.