iPhone – A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning Error

Easiest way of transferring photos from iPhone to pc is just opening Windows Explorer and copy/paste them. But sometimes you might see strange error messages like “Error Copying File or Folder” , ” A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning “. Therefore iPhone photo transfer problem might be seen in many PC and MAC computers.

iPhone Photo Transfer Error Symptoms

Although using iTunes for transferring photos from iPhone to pc is a preferred method iTunes is complicated. It is a bit hard to use also. Best and simplest alternative for simple photo transfer from iPhone to pc is just using Windows Explorer! When you want to transfer your iPhone/iPad photos and videos you just open explorer, navigate to your iPhone device and copy/paste your photos. But sometimes, you may meet some problems and iPhone error messages when copying your photos.

Symptoms of problem may change. Sometimes, you copy, for example, 100 photos, and when you paste them you see only 40 files copied! Sometimes, you don’t meet any error message or warning. But sometimes you may get “A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning” or “connected USB device is not functioning” error messages. That messages might be a bit different but problem is same: USB Connection problem! Changing the USB cable or computer doesn’t solve the problem too.

How to Solve “A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning” Problem

Solving “A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning” problem is usually fairly simple. So, follow the steps below:

  1. If your iPhone/iPad is connected to the PC, disconnect it
  2. In your iPhone/iPad navigate to Settings
  3. Go to Photos section
  4. Navigate down in the Photos menu items. At the end you will see TRANSFER TO MAC AND PC section. Change the option to Keep Originals.
iPhone A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning problem
SOLVE iPhone “A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning” problem

Now connect your iPhone/iPad to PC and transfer your Photos and Videos without problem. You will not meet “A Device Attached to the System Is Not Functioning” error anymore!

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