[SOLVED] iPhone 'hidden' photos

[bloodred4]

My dad is trying to get all his photos off of his iPhone 6 and he has over 14,000 of them. The phone shows it has over 14,000 and iTunes shows it as well. Windows file explorer is able to access the phone but only ~1,800 of them are there and I was able to transfer those to the PC but the other ~12,000 are nowhere to be found. In iTunes if I try selecting the sync photos option it wants to delete the ~12,000 photos before it will start syncing photos with the PC. Then enabling iCloud for photos wants to do the same. Does anyone know of some freeware that is able to access the phone to get all these photos off?

 

[Colif]

not an IPhone person so my help might not help

This is for seeing photos if phone refuses to show any, might work

I found a solution that worked for me in someone's post on this forum from 2012!

The suggestion was to make sure that on your pc you have at least one photo in the folder titled "Camera Roll". Put any photo that you have on your pc into that folder. Then disconnect and reconnect your iphone to your computer.

Once I did this, I was able to see my iphone in the "File Explorer" and easily copy my photos from my phone to a folder on my computer.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7713244

The only limitation is that Windows is only allowed to ‘see’ the Camera Roll folder! You don’t have access to other ‘internal’ folders of the iDevices, presumably this is for our own protection, though others (read: non-iPhone users) would scream ‘Freedoommm!’ – or the lack of it that is.

https://appletoolbox.com/why-does-my-iphone-dcim-folder-appear-empty-on-a-pc/

 

[Mtop]

And could they have been stored on the cloud

 

[DankM]

Either they were stored on the cloud or they were hidden in an application or lastly, you forgot to delete it from your recently deleted.