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.