Procedure to transfer photos from an iPhone to the computer

If you have an Android phone, it's easy:  just hook up the phone to the computer via USB and transfer files & photos directly.

If you have an iPhone, it's not so easy:  you have to transfer the photos to your iCloud account then to your computer;  better yet, transfer the photos into your Google Drive then to your computer.

1) To upload the photos from the iPhone to the Google Drive:

* On the computer:

- Log into the Google account

- Verify that the Google Drive is active

* On the iPhone:

- Connect the phone to the power supply (since the process will take some time)

- Connect to a wi-fi source

- Download the "Google Drive" app

- Go into the Google Drive app

- Click on the Menu icon (top left corner)

- Click on the Settings icon (top right corner)

- Click on Backup menu item

- In the "Backup with Google Drive" screen, click on the "Photos & videos" menu item

- Set "Back up to Google Photos" to On

- Go back to the "Backup with Google Drive" screen

- Click on "START BACKUP"

- In the "Backup in Progress" screen, wait for the backup to be done

- When the "Backup complete" screen shows up, click on Done

* Back on the computer:

- Get into the account Google Drive

- Make sure that the "Google Photos" folder is present

- Go into the "Google Photos" folder

- Make sure that all the photos are there

2) To download the photos from the Google Drive to the computer:

* On the computer:

- Log into the Google account

- Go into the "Google Photos" folder

- Select all files in that folder (Ctrl-A)

- Right-click then select Download

- Select the download folder

- Click on the Save button

- After saving is done, can delete the files from the Google Photos folder

* On the iPhone:

- After saving is done, can delete the files from the Camera Roll folder