How does this work with photos and iCloud?
Hello,
I have to admit that I have no idea how iCloud works. However, since I'm running out of storage space on my phone soon, and I'm planning on going to New Zealand for a year (and taking a lot of photos there), I'm thinking of getting "iCloud+." I have the following questions/problems:
1. My 5GB iCloud storage has been full for a long time. However, when I access my photos in the cloud, it seems like random images are being uploaded to the cloud (regardless of when they were taken). Some images are missing, and others that I deleted from the Photos app are still there.
—> How do I solve the problem now, or if I were to get iCloud +?
2. I currently have 27 GB of photos on my phone. If I were to get iCloud+ now, would all my photos be uploaded to iCloud in an organized manner instead of the chaotic way they are now? And will future photos be uploaded in the same organized manner?
3. If I come back from New Zealand and no longer have iCloud+, can I just transfer the photos from the cloud to my PC or flash drive?
So, that's it for now! I would be very pleased if I could get answers to these long (stupid) questions. 😅
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Hello,
Since you obviously don’t want to spend money extra for the iCloud, just use SD cards. They are not expensive even with 500GB, very small and you can take it anywhere.
Best regards from Leipzig
There are smartphones that do not have SD cards memory anymore. Mine also has not!!!
There are enough adapters for this! You put it on the phone, transfer the photos to it and then delete the photos in the phone. You have room for the new ones.
1€ per month is not the problem, only I don’t understand iCloud stop
In view of the “filigree” of SD cards, I would rather advise directly to an external SSD. (And of course to a smartphone with USB-C port! Latürnich!)
Otherwise a “Mimimi” will come in foreseeable time. I smoked the SD card, have no backup, how do I save the data?” -Queen. 😉
I have never experienced this before and have some in use or in the family.
Yeah, I know. That’s right. Copy with adapter and USB stick
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Okay, didn’t take care of your comment with “I have…”
I didn’t ask the question
But then why the iCloud if enough memory is in the phone? Then why the question?
I didn’t. Because I have a big cell phone memory. 256GB
You can download your images from your phone on your PC and then save them on a USB stick.
Or you can upload all images to Google Photos Cloud and then if you have a new phone easily copy with Google Photos Cloud.
iCloud I don’t know, is the iPhone??
At IPhone I don’t know because I don’t have one.
Jup – very good.
…and that by no means – USB sticks are not for permanent data storage for data transport. They’re too filigree.
If you already have a PC, then leave directly there and make backups from there also brav, regular and timely.
Thank you. Good
I didn’t know about the USB stick
Very detailed information on the subject. Thank you
Very helpful. Thank you
Well, it’s all a probability bill – and good USB sticks keep the data on average for a while longer than cheap homes.
Nevertheless, there are enough help calls from defective USB sticks that I simply cannot recommend using them as an archive.
In the case of chip-based USB/SSDs, the probability of data loss increases, the longer they are separated from the current.
We are talking here about 1 year or even much longer – several years – but you do not see that from the outside. 😉
Magnetic disks simply hold longer – but have other vulnerabilities.
I would never let SSDs disappear as a data archive in the closet right now. Also not because they are still too expensive compared to HDDs for these purposes.