

Click Import settings in left corner bottom to open the Import settings dialog box.ī. If you want to save them to another location, you just need to change the Import settings.Ī. The photos will be imported to My Pictures by default. When your iPhone is recognized by PC, the AutoPlay window will pop up. A prompt will pop-up on your iPhone asking you to Trust This Computer. You might need to unlock your iPhone using your password.ģ. Plug your iPhone 7 to the computer using a USB cable.Ģ. Here you will know how to transfer the photos from iPhone 7 to Windows 7.ġ.

It is recommended to use the latter because no further time is wasted. Alternatively, you can just import the images to PC directly without iTunes. I had to work in stages, allowing my phone to download the originals which I then copied to my PC and deleted from my phone, creating more space for more originals to be downloaded.You can use iTunes to import images from iPhone 7.

Note: You may find that selecting this option results in a message that your phone lacks the necessary capacity to download originals of all your photos.

(It should be noted that the photos did not appear pixelated or blurry in any way in the Photos app on my phone, but the following solution worked which indicates to me that these were "optimised versions"): After much frustration, Googling and trial-and-error, I came to the conclusion that the photos displayed on my phone weren't actually on my phone, but were instead "optimised versions" of photos stored in iCloud and therefore inaccessible through the file structure when connected to my PC.
