Apple i cloud back up

[Dustydog]

How does everyone else back up their photos held in the cloud?

I pay Apple a monthly fee but have never backed up. Is it easy to back up?

If my phone was stolen would I lose all my pics?

 

[borderbilly]

Why not get a external drive thingy to load your photos on, no fee.

 

[otherclive]

How does everyone else back up their photos held in the cloud?

I pay Apple a monthly fee but have never backed up. Is it easy to back up?

If my phone was stolen would I lose all my pics?

Very easy go into settings and tick the aspects you want to save. I have photos, calendar, reminders, notes, documents as the main ones. For Photos you will find a setting that allows your phone to manage storage. So on mine the high resolution photo is in ICloud and the phone and PAD and MAC have lower resolution versions. This save storage on the phone.

Very easy to do. Yes they are secure if your phone is lost or stolen or fails. Do you have Find My Phone actuve? Apple have recently issued some good security advice notices. Worth giving them a view.

 

[otherclive]

Why not get an external drive thingy to load your photos on, no fee.

My MAC hass everything backed up on Time Machine and a SSD drive but one benefit of the cloud storage via that the instant you take a photo it is stored in the cloud across your devices too.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I have over 80k images none of which are stored on the cloud.

First I download them from camera/phone to my workstation then make a backup copy on an external hard drive.

When were away from home I give the external hard drive to a friend to keep safe.

 

[borderbilly]

I have over 80k images none of which are stored on the cloud.

First I download them from camera/phone to my workstation then make a backup copy on an external hard drive.

When were away from home I give the external hard drive to a friend to keep safe.

That sounds like the way to go, and one of payment, no monthly fees 👍

 

[otherclive]

My son has recently been to Costa Rica and his, and my approach, is to save to the cloud during the holiday. Take the SD card from the camera, put it into a SD card reader and transfer to iPhone, iPad or laptop, then send them all into the Cloud. web wifi is available. That way daily or more often your photos are saved into the Cloud.

 

[Dustydog]

All mine are in the iCloud. I read this week a chap had his phone stolen. Apple would not , could not reinstate his life long album of photos.
I’ll be very upset if this happens to me.
I only use an iPhone and iPad so can’t use a fire stick thing .
Any suggestions please how and to where I can safeguard preserve my photos.
Apologies if I didn’t explain better earlier

 

[borderbilly]

All mine are in the iCloud. I read this week a chap had his phone stolen. Apple would not , could not reinstate his life long album of photos.
I’ll be very upset if this happens to me.
I only use an iPhone and iPad so can’t use a fire stick thing .
Any suggestions please how and to where I can safeguard preserve my photos.
Apologies if I didn’t explain better earlier

As stated above a external drive with USB cable.

 

[Buckman]

All this Cloud stuff is beyond me. I download photos to laptop, save them on the laptop and also on a USB flash drive.

I think I would be more concerned if I had banking details on my phone which I don't and refuse to have on either of our phones.

Contacts, appointments etc are all kept on laptop and USB drive, however I do need to update the USB flash drives.

 

[Jcloughie]

All mine are in the iCloud. I read this week a chap had his phone stolen. Apple would not , could not reinstate his life long album of photos.
I’ll be very upset if this happens to me.
I only use an iPhone and iPad so can’t use a fire stick thing .
Any suggestions please how and to where I can safeguard preserve my photos.
Apologies if I didn’t explain better earlier

What version IPad/iPhone do you have. Mine has USB C and I can plug in an adapter to save to micro SD card. But all my photos are on the cloud. The 50 gb for 99 pence cloud is probably enough for a lot of people. I buy the 200 gb for £2.99/month. This allows me to freely share between 2 x iPads and 2 x iPhones. Also to share and receive with family.

I don’t get concerned with security. I can only assume that the person who had their phone stolen had not saved their passwords. Mine are saved in a password manager. Also, I have legacy contacts set up for both of us.

Our important papers are stored in the cloud. Shared with son and daughter. But they can also get access as my legacy nominated contacts.

John

 

[Sam Vimes]

When travelling I keep my photos on the camera memory card. In fact my camera has two memory cards of different tpes in it and a image gets saved to both. Then at the end of the day I'll back up the photos from one card to my phone using a memory card reader.

But backups of PCs/Laptops should be more than just photos. I suspect there is other important stuff on your machines that should also be backed up. Again I just backup these to an external hard drive. I also take a snapshot of my OS so that can be resurrected if something goes really wrong.

Pays your money etc......

 

[Dustydog]

What version IPad/iPhone do you have. Mine has USB C and I can plug in an adapter to save to micro SD card. But all my photos are on the cloud. The 50 gb for 99 pence cloud is probably enough for a lot of people. I buy the 200 gb for £2.99/month. This allows me to freely share between 2 x iPads and 2 x iPhones. Also to share and receive with family.

I don’t get concerned with security. I can only assume that the person who had their phone stolen had not saved their passwords. Mine are saved in a password manager. Also, I have legacy contacts set up for both of us.

Our important papers are stored in the cloud. Shared with son and daughter. But they can also get access as my legacy nominated contacts.

John

Thanks John
Like you I pay Apple £2.99 per month

iPhone 12 IOS 17.7

iPad Pro 10.5 inch IOS 17.7

Other than the charging socket on both and a tiny Jack plug socket on the iPad I can’t see anywhere I can plug in a stick🙀

Something I need to sort out over Christmas

 

[Sam Vimes]

If your phone/iPad has a lightning connector then something like this may help.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-Certified-Lightning-Supports-Keyboard/dp/B0C1P9M896?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.quq3tIk2jtH9LEowSfNnJOX5KgNDTYn9l3zOkLMMZd3tZA8vOMHzHkogQ4q9DybvYHgg3OqI9nugrsUhkQmqNAd717x02LQKXyAiEvtnnOERGw1C_ALPyrS1DBxHqRAL-oKJV8ijx04vQG4ixAWc6dB-wNQuog3VVAoag6x8qk-wecOj0gdNmGLukeMRjVZwULHLA3RHtkbvcKvulKwuqw._gRi0e-p6lgO_24G0tyfm3U5K7Bj0xENKfNStO4C_yw&dib_tag=se&keywords=lightning+to+usb&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1734350041&sr=8-3

 

[otherclive]

What version IPad/iPhone do you have. Mine has USB C and I can plug in an adapter to save to micro SD card. But all my photos are on the cloud. The 50 gb for 99 pence cloud is probably enough for a lot of people. I buy the 200 gb for £2.99/month. This allows me to freely share between 2 x iPads and 2 x iPhones. Also to share and receive with family.

I don’t get concerned with security. I can only assume that the person who had their phone stolen had not saved their passwords. Mine are saved in a password manager. Also, I have legacy contacts set up for both of us.

Our important papers are stored in the cloud. Shared with son and daughter. But they can also get access as my legacy nominated contacts.

John

My approach is very similar to yours including involvement of my wife and kids via Legacy Contacts. Reading the reports of the chap who lost money ( now reimbursed ) he delayed notifying his finance providers and didn’t seem to use Find My Phone. That enables instant locking and bank or card apps also allow instant stop too.

 

[Bluetonic]

I host my own storage and use a free open source app called Immich to back up the family's photos from their phones, works very much like google photos but I own the data

 

[Kenno]

If you have Amazon Prime you can upload unlimited pictures and a limited amount of video. If you download their app you can set it to automatically upload pictures direct from your phone.

 

[Jcloughie]

If you have Amazon Prime you can upload unlimited pictures and a limited amount of video. If you download their app you can set it to automatically upload pictures direct from your phone.

The downside, at least with Apple, is that Apple put pictures and videos in the same album. So backing that album up to the Amazon cloud very soon breaches the video limit. Otherwise it is great. And Amazons photo search is excellent.

John

 

[Jcloughie]

I host my own storage and use a free open source app called Immich to back up the family's photos from their phones, works very much like google photos but I own the data

Looks very good. My son has been planning to do the same with our storage but to include mirroring between servers. He has the knowledge as he does such data management for a living. Just never seem to find the time.

Far too hard for me and he is far too busy. Perhaps when he retires.

John

 

[otherclive]

A question I ask myself is “” who am I saving them for?” I am going through our early photos and slides and copying some to the computer. But I’m being selective as I’m sure our descendants don’t really want to see pictures of holidays or walks on Dartmoor. Same when my father died I threw out hundreds of photos that had no real significance. Yet I’ve still got around 1500 slides of his to go through. There are I only so many photos of significance that I concentrated on family shots of parents, grand and great ones too plus siblings cousins, homes, cars, pets etc. Basically a self made Ancestry album.

 

[Buckman]

A question I ask myself is “” who am I saving them for?” I am going through our early photos and slides and copying some to the computer. But I’m being selective as I’m sure our descendants don’t really want to see pictures of holidays or walks on Dartmoor. Same when my father died I threw out hundreds of photos that had no real significance. Yet I’ve still got around 1500 slides of his to go through. There are I only so many photos of significance that I concentrated on family shots of parents, grand and great ones too plus siblings cousins, homes, cars, pets etc. Basically a self made Ancestry album.

I would think many of us take unnecessary and too many photos using our mobile phones as it costs nothing. Previously you put thought into taking the best picture due to development costs. We have a cupboard full of photos from when the kids were young, but this is probably surpassed by the number of photos on tablet, laptop and phones. Most probably boring to the kids. LOL!

 

[otherclive]

I would think many of us take unnecessary and too many photos using our mobile phones as it costs nothing. Previously you put thought into taking the best picture due to development costs. We have a cupboard full of photos from when the kids were young, but this is probably surpassed by the number of photos on tablet, laptop and phones. Most probably boring to the kids. LOL!

Yes two 36 shot rolls would do a fortnight in Switzerland. Now our son has come back from Costa Rica with 5000 ish. Yet he’s still not made an album from our trip to Iceland in 2019.

 

[alamo16584]

A question I ask myself is “” who am I saving them for?” I am going through our early photos and slides and copying some to the computer. But I’m being selective as I’m sure our descendants don’t really want to see pictures of holidays or walks on Dartmoor. Same when my father died I threw out hundreds of photos that had no real significance. Yet I’ve still got around 1500 slides of his to go through. There are I only so many photos of significance that I concentrated on family shots of parents, grand and great ones too plus siblings cousins, homes, cars, pets etc. Basically a self made Ancestry album.

My mum just passed & I was going through pics covering my 64yrs, with no idea who/where the pics were taken, name & date your pics for future generations, if family don't want them then look at donating to schools/history clubs or just do a post online area by area, please look at all options before landfill or delete button

 

[otherclive]

My mum just passed & I was going through pics covering my 64yrs, with no idea who/where the pics were taken, name & date your pics for future generations, if family don't want them then look at donating to schools/history clubs or just do a post online area by area, please look at all options before landfill or delete button

When I digitise them I include details and any hard copies I retain I put details on the back. I am also writing (slow progress) as much family history as I can This includes addresses of passed relatives, employment, pictures embedded in the text. Thing is when I was a kid the major part of the family and friends lived locally. At weekends there would generally be meet ups at the local Railway Mens club, summer would see a coach hired for a major bash to Skegness or Hunstanton with crates of beer loaded on board. Since my job required regular moves our kids never got that contact with the wider family and friends. So their growing up was so much different to ours, and they have less experience and information to draw on unless I provide the links.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I would think many of us take unnecessary and too many photos using our mobile phones as it costs nothing. Previously you put thought into taking the best picture due to development costs. We have a cupboard full of photos from when the kids were young, but this is probably surpassed by the number of photos on tablet, laptop and phones. Most probably boring to the kids. LOL!

I agree.

Digital photography has made it cheap to take as many photos as you want for little cost. Most people don't print photos these days. Those that are posted on social media are probably viewed once and never again - which causes severe storage problems for the likes of FB etc, which in terms causes in my opinion unecessary loading on the power supply systems. Some Bit Barns are being rejected because the grid in some locations can't handle the extra load. Some social media companys are now building there own generation plants - some using 'green' sources.

Personally I'm sure that none of my family are interested in having access to over the 80k images I have stored, so I see no point in sharing them all in the cloud. What I do is selectively send them images then they can do what they want with them.

In my experience as a semi serious photographer I've come across too many people who have too many digital photos and no idea how to organise them or retrieve them. Much the same applies to digital music collections.