Online Photo Storage iOS

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  • mg33

    I'm trying to decide on the most efficient, all in one place for syncing photos from my phone to be available on a computer. Before going fully into whatever process I choose, thought I'd see what you all are doing, if anything.

    Main goal is to more easily make them available on my computers, free up space on my phone, but still have them available via cloud on my phone. I'm really only concerned about photos taken with my phone; I've got other workflows for photos with other cameras and use Flickr, website, etc. for this. I could anticipate occasionally saving photo sets to whatever cloud solution I go with.

    Another goal is to easily delete pictures everywhere from one place. Not sure how that works in each of the options below.

    Also, I prefer to have photos organized by folders based on event, location, etc. and usually do all this manually on desktop, so I'm used to that process.

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    Google Drive
    I thought about creating individual folders and manually uploading photos as I need to. Already created a couple. This puts them on my Drive folder (where I store other things, so one location is nice), and can delete them from my phone after doing so.

    Google Photos
    Haven't looked into this too much. I know it's integrated into Drive now too. Sounds like it automatically syncs all photos as they're taken, making them available anywhere. Doesn't remove them from the phone; would have to do that manually.

    iCloud
    Also looked into this a little bit. Understand that it will sync my photos as they're taken, making them available easily on other devices with iCloud. I don't think it removes photos from the phone, but read something about saving low-res previews on the device after they're synced. I think deleting them from the phone does NOT delete them from iCloud.

    Any thoughts on this? Anyone have a preferred service you're using that has been reliable and easy to use?

  • ArmandoEstrada0

    You can't beat the seamlessness of iCloud storage for that. 1 pay $1 a month for 20 gigs. So far I've used 8 between iPhone and iPad backups, email and photos.

    When I delete a photo on device i get a notification: "This photo will be deleted from iCloud photo library on all devices".

    I say do iCloud and see how it goes, no issues here....

    • So there's really no reduction in storage on the phone then if the photos originated there, right?mg33
    • I have plenty of storage (64GB phone) but want to keep stuff organized better.mg33
    • ^ yes -- i'd love to be able to delete pics from my phone yet leave them in iCloudGnash
  • zaq0

    I use DS Photo for that to sync all my photos to Synology nas.
    On Android after all photos are synced they are deleted, but on iPad you have to manually delete it.

    Same thing is with Google Photos, iPad I have to manually delete it. But at least Google moves synced photos into "trash" folder and give you convenient button to open it and delete.

  • deathboy0
    • Started thinking about NAS drives with cloud access a while ago, but just not ready for that transition yet.mg33
    • oh. well it looks pretty cheap and easy to use. think i saw one for 125 the other daydeathboy
  • mg330

    OK, I got everything imported into iCloud. If anything, it's going to make it far easier to manage what's on my phone, delete it, organize, etc. I will probably still keep certain photo sets in Google Drive though.

    • is there a way to delete from the phone and leave it on the cloud?Gnash
  • tesmith0

    I use Camera Upload on Dropbox and am able to delete from my phone while keeping picture in Dropbox. Works quite well, frees up space on my phone.