IPhone 5 or above question

I use to be able to connect my iPhone 4S to my MS computer, and I could see it as a Device when I used 'Explore'.  I was able to go to the Photos and copy off large numbers of Photos at one time and move them to a HD for storage.  Then I could free up the space on the phone.

Today I have a need to pull 20 or so photos off and use them on my Desktop computer.  

I connect, but I can not see the phone.  I went thru iTunes and still can not find a way in.

Did something change or am I just being stupid again?

Later,

Da,

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George

I'm no iPhone maven, but is there another way to share the photos? Can you e-mail them to yourself, or share them to the apple cloud and then pull them from there onto your computer?

Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox might be another option.

I've never connected my current Android phone to my computer, I always use sharing, or OneDrive.

I was never able to figure out how to do that in iTunes.  I used to do it with Windows explorer but a recent iOS update (7 to 8 I think) made that no longer workable.  However, I noticed that when I plug my iPhone into my computer, one of the other menu options that pops up is "Import Pictures and Videos Using Windows", so I've started doing that. (There are also several other options on that menu.  As mentioned I used to select the one that said something like "view files using Windows Explorer".)  The first time I did the import using Windows, I tweaked the settings to tell it the folder where I wanted the pictures to go and possibly some other settings ... I no longer recall, but now it remembers all that.  Each time I do this, it makes a new subfolder (with the current date) and copies in everything since the last import.  

Of course, this means that you get everything.  I don't know if there is an easy way to pick and choose what you want to copy from the phone to the computer.  (If someone knows, I'd be interested.)  But, I like to have a backup of all the photos anyway, so this works out pretty well for me.

Get a dropbox account! You can have it upload your photos whenever you take them, or when you connect to a computer.

Two possibilities: 

(1) (if you use Picasa) Connect the phone and open Picasa on your computer. Click "Import" in Picasa. Even though the phone may not appear in Finder, Picasa will "see" the contents. Then you can move or copy. The only reason I know this is that I did it yesterday for the first time on my MacBook. (If memory serves, in the past when I connected the iPhone to my PC, it automatically saw the photos on the phone, which was lots easier.)

(2) (if you use cloud storage, like Amazon Prime) I couldn't get the photos from my Android onto my MacBook. So, I uploaded the photos to Amazon Prime photos and then downloaded them to the computer.

Not a direct answer to your question, but I use Google+ (formerly Picasa Web Albums) and the Google+ app automatically backs up my iPhone photos.  With that I never have to worry about wrestling with Apple to get photos off of it, or deal with manually emailing them.  You do need a Google+ account, but you don't need to do anything with it.  And pictures are not shared by default.