I’ve got some photos on my iPhone that I’d like to take to the you-print it at the local Shoppers and print out. How do I do that?
Dunno if there are tricks specific to iphones, but my phone will allow me to send a picture to an email address. Then it’s just a matter of copying the file to other media like a flash drive or a CD, or printing fairly low quality copies on an attached printer.
Do you have a USB cable for your phone? Those instant print stations usually have a USB port for flashdrives.
iPhone ≠ Flash drive.
Oakminster has the correct answer.
So what you’re saying is that you cannot hook up an iPhone to a computer and transfer files? Why not? I had phones, like, 5 years ago that could do this.
You can use iTunes and iBooks and iphotos on your phone to emulate a flash drive. You can hook your phone up to a CPU, transfer files, and do what you want.
What he’s saying is that you can’t connect the phone directly to the photo print setup. You need to connect to your own computer and transfer the files to a USB drive
I see. That makes sense.
This is precisely the question those of us who are not so fond of Apple ask. I won’t give my actual opinions of Apple in GQ, though.
Still I’ll give a WAG that makes Apple not look so bad: it was to make it more difficult to copy music off the iPhone. Requiring proprietary software means that Apple can make sure that the device respects DRM. Plus it seems that, in order to get as many artists as they did for the iTunes store, Apple had to assure the rights holders that someone could not just take an off-the-shelf iPod/iPhone/iPad and use it to distribute music to their friends.
Of course, other MP3 player and smart phone designers didn’t have a music store to deal with, and thus didn’t care about these restrictions. Heck, it means less work for them just following the standard rather than having to create their own software to handle their filesystem.
The only people who possibly lose out on a standards-based system are the rights holders, and thus I think they are the primary drive towards Apple’s more restrictive decisions. Or, at least, they were.
It is too bad then, that this question was based on a misunderstanding of another post.
You can quite certainly hook up your iPhone to a computer and freely transfer photos, music files, etc.
Thanks for the comments, everyone. I just plugged my iPhone into my MacBook. There’s now an icon for iDisk, but when I clicked on it, I also got a message that I have to set up a MobileMe account - is that right? I can’t just access the stuff on the iPhone directly?
Nope.
You use iTunes to mange the phone.
You can set iPhoto to automatically download photos from the iPhone.
If you start up iPhoto, you should see your iPhone show up as a device in the left-hand column. Click it, and you’ll see all of the photos in iPhoto. You can then transfer them to a USB drive or a different location on your hard drive or do whatever you want with them.
You definitely do not need iDisk or MobileMe.
Answered already, but of course you can do this. Worked fine on my PC, works fine on my Mac. In fact, I have iCloud set up now so I don’t even have to plug the phone in to transfer files. They just show up.
I’t know if a Mac would be different, but when I plug my phone into a PC, with or without iTunes, I just select the phone in “My Computer” and can copy the pictures with no other software needed.
There is also a Walgreens app that will allow you to print off iPhone pics. Some printing stores will allow you to print off pic from Facebook. So you can upload your pics to
Facebook, then print off.
You may be able to transfer them to your computer wirelessly via bluetooth if your computer has bluetooth capabilties which many do these days.
Thanks, All. I’ve now got the photos I want loaded on a thumb drive - off to the drugstore to get them printed.
Then I don’t understand why you couldn’t connect it to the photo kiosk in the same way. I can see it not working if you needed some Apple software on the receiving computer, but now you’re saying you don’t.
The iPhone does not use a standard USB or micro USB port. Printers and kiosks I’ve seen do not have the connector that the iPhone’s use.
But how do you connect it to a PC then?