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Last updated on January 13th, 2023 at 05:06 am
I have a confession: I only download photos from my iPhone whenever I start getting the low storage warnings.
Please tell me I’m not alone.
I don’t have a fancy DSLR, so every single picture and video is on my phone.
I also don’t have a Mac so I spend most of my photo downloading time-fighting with my PC and getting extremely frustrated.
So, I had to find a way to back up all those photos from my iPhone in case I lost my battle to the old PC, or worse, lose my phone 😱.
Here are two free services that will back up your iPhone photos directly from your device.
Google Photos
Pros
Google Photos is free with your Google account. All you have to do is download the app. Each time you open it, it automatically uploads all your pictures and videos to your account.
The app will also help you purge not-so-great photos and help you archive screenshots so they don’t end up in family photo albums. And it’s easy to create and share photo albums with any family that doesn’t use iPhone.
Cons
Google Photos is free, but they recently changed the service so that you won’t be saving any high-quality images. However, having this as backup gives me peace of mind, should anything ever happen to my phone.
Shutterfly
Pros
I use Shutterfly to create all my photo books. With Shutterfly’s app you can create photo books and get free prints when you sign up. But my problem is that you have to upload all the photos —it doesn’t do it automatically.
I prefer to use the desktop version of Shutterfly anyway since there are more features, including uploading photos from your Google Photos account. This makes it easy when you’re ready to create a photo book.
Cons
Shutterfly can be a good backup storage account for your photos …but I say backup because you have to pay for video storage, starting at $20 a month.
If you want to print your photos, you’ll have to do it through Shutterfly because the app doesn’t allow high-resolution downloads.
I know there are other services out there, but those are Google Photos and Shutterfly are what I have the most experience with. Whatever you do, always have a couple of places to store your digital photos. There’s no way you want to lose any of those precious photos of your kids.
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