Tired of iPhone space problems?

[NJCher]

Simple solution, assuming you have Amazon Prime.

They (Prime) give you a good deal of space to upload your photos (unlimited for photos, limited to 5 gigabytes for videos). I've been doing this for a while now, and find it quite workable. I used to be getting space reminders from my iPhone all the time. Now it's so simple to upload photos that I hardly ever get one.

All you do is get their app, available at the Amazon site*, and upload your photos to the cloud. The app is actually pretty good and does a nice job of organizing your photos. You can then access them via your computer for editing, mailing, etc. Or you can do it with your phone. Either way, it's easy.

If you don't want to keep them there, fine--because it's so easy to download them to your computer's hard drive or other storage. That makes this a very practical solution because you'll never have to buy more space from anyone, other than your own USB, card storage, or computer hard drive.

Once you've transferred the photos to your computer, you can delete all your iPhone photos. This will free up a lot of space on your phone.

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*just put "Amazon photos" in their search engine

[mahina]

1. Do you find the image quality is preserved?

Thank you.

[NJCher]

2. Yes

But you could always test it before making any time commitment to it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. No file exists until it exists in three copies

One in the device, one on a back drive or stick, and one offsite like in a bank safe deposit box or in the cloud (if you must). It's a good idea to rotate backups on a semi-regular basis to keep them up to date.

Especially important for photos. The thing everyone grabs first if they have 15 minutes to bug out of the home due to impending disaster.

Snap photos of all important documents in good lighting so that they are clear and readable. Then give them the same 3 copy treatment.

[usonian]

4. I just copy to the computer every now and then.

Editing them and ESPECIALLY, sorting, filing and renaming them are a ZILLION percent easier on the computer.

Not to mention the “infinitely” larger screen to actually view the photos.

Photo management on phones is a very sick joke, especially with the limited memory, so whatever good things you do are undone when space fills up, either by the photos, or apps, or email or messages or other data. And it’s the world’s most expensive memory!

I don’t trust any online services. They come and go, they raise prices, use your photos to train their AI and surveil you for ads, and so on. I just copy to the computer, and back up the computer.

[NJCher]

5. I totally agree with

Everything you said in this post and if you want to back up entirely to your computer you can do that without even connecting with a cord now. Do that through iTunes with the icon up at the top.

However a lot of my photos are not worth my own hard drive space. They are just captures that may or may not be needed later. I like to take off the ones I’m certain I’ll want and then later on, delete the iffy stuff off the. Amazon site.

I am always showing photos to people so I like the instant access and organizational capabilities of having them at Amazon.

Trying to do this stuff on a phone (sizing, light adjustment), though, is sheer, unmitigated hell.

[usonian]

6. Cool. Here is my approach.

I love to store stuff on the computer. A terabyte solid state drive is about $70.

The best "show off" photos go on a big iPad Pro, which I use mainly for music scores ( replaces many pounds of paper) and showing off the photos. Easy transfer. Air drop. Even SD card, with adapter, whatever.

Given that showing off wants the big screen, this works great.

Now that we have reached the "Everything online and cheapened by AI" event horizon, being present with my squirreled away photos has great meaning.

My thought processes are always a few years ahead, causing people to wonder about me, but I am certain that ideas I wrote down 10 or more years ago are going to get life this year.

Food, and internet "phenomena" spoil over time.