Transferring iphone 5s pictures to windows 8 laptop

[Fromtherough]

You know when something should be simple, and it transpires to be anything but? Well the new laptop nearly ended up in pieces last night through my frustration. All I was trying to do was to transfer photo's from my Iphone 5s to my laptop (windows 8). On my old laptop (windows xp) this was an easy process and basically all you needed to do was connect phone via USB. It appears you now need a fellowship in computer science to do this. Unless I'm stupidly missing something.

Any advice (in layman terms where possible) would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rooter]

plug the phone into USB, click on windows explorer and look at the phone as a removable drive. copy and paste. done. you may need to unhide the phone within windows explorer.

 

[woody69]

Import using the Photo App in Windows 8 - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/import-photos-videos

 

[Lump]

It can be an utter nightmare. When you do finally get your iPhone to sync with your computer it throws all the images into separate folders that have no methodical name, leaving you to click on every folder to find the images you want…
Its almost as if Microsoft don't want you to use your iPhone on a windows machine.

 

[SaintHacker]

Its almost as if Microsoft don't want you to use your iPhone on a windows machine.

Think its more a case of Apple don't want you plugging into Windows!
Ditch your iphone and get an Android is the best advice.

 

[the_coach]

Step 1 – Connect your iPhone device

Step 2 – Click Start, then Computer
This should take you to a Windows Explorer page that lists your hard disk drive(s), and devices with removable storage. If connected properly, your iPhone device will register as a device with removable storage, and you will see the icon for it listed below this header.

Step 3 – Double-click your device’s logo in Windows Explorer
Double-clicking your device will open it up as a directory, full of folders and sub-folders that store all of your phone’s content.

Step 4 – Open your camera folder
Your camera folder should be located in [Your iPhone Device]\Internal Storage\DCIM\100APPLE. This means once you’re in your iPhone’s directory, click on the Internal Storage folder, then the DCIM folder, then the 100APPLE folder.
Step 5 – Transfer your photos

You can import your device’s photos by selecting the ones you want, or pressing Ctrl+A to select them all, and dragging them onto your desktop. Or, you can hit Ctrl+C to copy the photos, and then hit Ctrl+V in the folder you want to copy them into.

or.

Step 1: Switch to the Start screen, click or tap Photos app tile to run the app.

Step 2: Right-click anywhere on the Photos app to see Import option in the lower right corner of the screen.

Step 3: Click or tap Import button to view list of all connected devices to your PC.

Step 4: Click or tap your iPhone entry, select photos and videos that you would like to import, and then click or tap Import button to start transferring selected photos and videos to your PC.

Photos app saves all imported photos in Pictures library. You can view all imported photos either using Photos app, Windows Photo Viewer, or any other program.

 

[MadAdey]

I just keep it simple when doing this like has already been said. If you look in your directory you will see the IPhone as an external hard drive and just access it like you would one of these.

You can also drop a shortcut onto your desktop so once you connect the IPhone just click on that and it will elae straight there without having to mess around.

 

[Fromtherough]

Cheers for the posts guys. All sorted. Appears main thing I was doing wrong was not having my iphone screen unlocked while connected to the laptop. Anyway thanks again to all who replied.