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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by scarface74 on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:42AM (#17678739)
You plug in your phone to your PC and it shows up as a drive and you copy the photos. You don't need iTunes at all.
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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by mamon on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:47PM (#17681380)
Oh, I tried that, but you know what? Out of almost a 1000 photos I have on my iPhone only 97 showed up, ready to be copied - the ones that I took with the iPhone camera. Those uploaded with iTunes were inaccessible.

That’s when I decided to never buy an iDevice again.

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Re:Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompa... by gbear605 on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:38PM (#17681819)
That's (probably) because you had your phone set to optimize storage and store them on the cloud. You can fix this by going to the Settings app, going to Photos, and selecting "Download and Keep Originals" instead of "Optimize iPhone Storage."

This isn't lock-in, this is helping you by allowing you to take more photos.

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