iPhone Getting ALL photos off an original 2007 iPhone on iOS 2. Help!

[Mac2727]

So I promise I've tried looking this up!

Anyone got any suggestions how to get photos (from the photo library as opposed to the camera roll) off an original/first-gen 2007 iPhone?

- If you use macOS photos.app or Image Capture to import then it can only 'see' the 'Camera Roll' folder on the original (2007) iPhone
- If you use iTunes on an old Mac (I've tried iTunes 12 on a El Capitan machine) the option to 'synch photos' appears to be a one way street i.e. it will synch photos from the Mac to the iPhone but not the other way round
- If you open it as a USB storage device in Windows Explorer on a WIN10 PC you can again only see the Camera Roll folder
- On the iPhone itself (iOS 2.2!) you can email the photos or send to MobileMe (the former would be very laborious and the latter is defunct)

Anyone got any ideas??

 

[sunapple]

I'm not sure from memory or searching if any first party solution exists to solve this. Camera Roll yes, but I believe your photos are imported by the iPhone from a computer right? Oh the good old days of syncing iPhones.

Try iExplorer 3, this version should be compatible with iPhone OS 2.
Download: https://macroplant.com/downloads
Version compatibility: https://helpdesk.macroplant.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018857354-What-are-the-system-requirements-

 

[Mac2727]

Thanks but unfortunately that doesn’t work and it’s the same for other 3rd party apps like iMazing, etc.
I presume this is some limitation of the iOS 2 file system and the photos are in some inaccessible library/container

 

[sunapple]

Thanks but unfortunately that doesn’t work and it’s the same for other 3rd party apps like iMazing, etc.
I presume this is some limitation of the iOS 2 file system and the photos are in some inaccessible library/container

It should be compatible, but I cannot find any information on it online either. Most of the forum topics from the time are hard to find. I did jailbreak these 2G models at the time because they were sim-locked, I have some experience with iExplorer but it has been a while.

Do you get an error message or does the program not recognise the phone? You are running version 3 of iExplorer on an older macOS version right?

 

[Mac2727]

I was being an idiot and using version 4 of iExplorer. Switched to version 3 and it works!
Managed to get all the photos off the phone.

Thanks so much for your help!