I want to be able to delete photos from my iPhone, even if I just took one, and then quickly access it and view it and/or download it from the cloud. What backup or storage service should I use, and how should I best configure it? Help me simplify and streamline a backup workflow, that can transfer from phone to (new) phone each year and save me in case my phone breaks or is lost, too.
iCloud, Dropbox, Google Photos, Google Drive, iMazing, AnyTrans, etc. There are lots of ways to backup and store iPhone photos, videos, music, app content, messages, etc. Ahhhhh!
After the iPhone 7, I've been sticking with the 64gb models each year. As a result, I need to start really offloading photos, especially. Right now I pay for 50gb of iCloud storage and 100gb of Google storage. I also have a Dropbox 1tb account.
At the same time, I have a PC with plenty of space for backing up photos (although they end up in Dropbox for safer keeping, anyway).
A few requirements: I want to be able to know that the original, full size (raw) image (or video, including if it was filmed in slow-motion) is retained when backed up, and that when I delete it from the phone it survives in whatever cloud service I backed it up to. Both iCloud and Google Photos make it somewhat difficult to discern what will happen when "deleting" or removing photos. Is "Archiving" in Google Photos app what I want? Is "freeing up space" what I want? If I backup to Google Photos does it retain those iPhone specific photo features (that push to watch a few seconds before and after feature, for example?
Then there's iCloud. It is seemingly a pain, if not impossible, to literally just download the photos stored there to a local drive so that I can upload them to Dropbox. I'd be happy to get rid of iCloud, store my photos in Google, and just backup the other iPhone stuff using iMazing or AnyTrans on my PC SSD. Important stuff (message backups, for example) would then get uploaded to Dropbox.
I want to be able to delete photos from my iPhone, even if I just took one, and then quickly access it and view it and/or download it from the cloud. What backup or storage service should I use, and how should I best configure it?
Between iMazing and Anytrans, what would you recommend? Seems like iMazing's feature of being able to transfer from an old phone to a new one is pretty handy. However, I found (in the demo) that just pulling photos off the phone to my PC to be an issue. I also wonder what features from the photos or videos I lose doing it this way.
I just vomited up a lot of stuff. If I need to clarify anything please ask. Thanks for any and all advice and help! |
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