Tech Savvy I am not

I wish I were more tech savvy than what I am, and it frustrates me a bunch.

For instance.....my phone.

I ran the update last night.  It looks different than it did, and I need to get used to the new things to hit.  That is not a problem.

The issue is with other things, like pictures.  I love to take pictures. I love to look at pictures and see how things and people have changed. I like to record the memories for future reference.

So tell me...how do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my laptop?  Connect the two.  I can do that.  Then find the pictures on the iPhone. I can do that.  Then copy them and paste them into a folder in my Pictures folder on the laptop.  I can do that.

I did that.  Last night.  I copied all of the picture files that came up,.  I did it.  Then when I looked at the pictures to be sure that I had them before I started to delete them from my phone (to free up some of that space that was being taken that I keep receiving warnings about), the most recent pictures were not there!  No pictures from Graceland.  No pictures from the Hollywood Cafe.  No pictures of the rivers.

What I discovered was that the Camera Roll and the Photo Stream were different and that I could copy only one of them. What?  How do I find the other set?

I was frustrated.  I quit.  I went to bed.  But I left my phone plugged in and did the latest software update.

Now when I look at it, the pictures are different, but the Photo Stream and the Camera Roll look nearly identical.  Are they?  Should I try to copy the pictures onto my laptop again?

Plus this Shutterfly app?  Why is it that i uploaded all of my pictures into Shutterfly and have them divided into separate folders, then all of a sudden when I tried to upload the most recent set (like I have been doing for a few months) I am told that there are 1000+ photos to upload and most of them are pictures that I have already put into the folders.  I just don't understand!

Oh my.  While I am super glad that the days are gone of buying rolls of film and taking them in to develop, I still miss those days when pictures were pictures.  Why does this have to be so confusing!