My pc thinks my iphone is a camera

everytime i plug in my iphone is says camera connected and wants to know what program i want to use, how to i correct this?

Unless you've got iTunes connected, this is the only way your pc can interact with the phone is the camera function. You can download files this way but not delete them, if I recall correctly. What you could maybe do is select the option to just Open a regular windows explorer folder, and check the box that says perform this function each time. This may be a way to make the popup not so disruptive

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