If you don't know how to get your pictures off your phone, that's the first thing to learn so that you can then preserve your photos.
It's wise to store them at least one way digitally, but {the best way to store photos is in print}. Think of digital photo storage like old-time film negatives. Negatives were good to save in case something happened to your printed photos. But the printed photos were the important part because THEY were the things that got SEEN. It's not so different today.
But first you have to get your pictures off your phone, right?
UPDATE 2021: With a (free) Forever account you can get the Forever mobile app and upload directly from your phone!
One way to get your photos from your phone to your computer is to e-mail them to yourself. Just be sure to select "actual size" or "full size" or "full resolution" when you're asked what size you want to send them. You don't want to receive them in lower resolution (lower quality) than you took them.
METHOD #2
Your phone should have come with a cable so that your phone can be plugged into your computer for backing it up, etc. It should have a USB end and a phone end.
If you have this cable, you can actually go onto your computer and open your phone, click on the photos on your phone, and copy and paste them onto your computer.
I have PC and an iPhone, so what that looks like for me is I find "This PC" then "my iPhone." I double-click "my iPhone" and a window opens that says "internal storage." I click that and see a folder called "DCIM." I have videos and pictures inside that folder. This is definitely not the simplest way to get your photos off your phone because after you open DCIM, each photo and video is in its own folder. That means I have to double-click each folder individually, and when I see each photo (in jpeg form), I right-click on the photo, choose "copy," and then go to the location on my computer where I want to save it and click "paste."
As I said, this is not the simplest way to get your photos off your phone, but it does work. This is a good method to get the VIDEOS off your phone and saved onto your computer, though!
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Good to know for those that don't know how. I've had an app on my iPhone and computer for years called Photo Transfer which easily transfers via wifi. Thanks so much for linking up at Wordless Wednesday to Foto Friday 1. Shared.
ReplyDeleteYes, there are some great tools now so it can be done wirelessly. I love the Forever app because it's not a true sync. True syncs mean you can't delete anything from your phone without deleting it from the cloud, but Forever is permanent photo storage, so it's THERE, no matter what I do on my phone. https://www.forever.com/ambassador/jennifer-wise/mobile_apps Thanks for visiting, commenting, and sharing!
DeleteI understand but the one I use only syncs to transfer. Once they're on my computer they are there until I delete them, doesn't matter what I do on my phone.
DeleteOh, that's good! I'm glad. I talked to a professional photo organizer who told me about the "true sync" idea, and I know some clients who have had problems because they didn't know that the "true sync" meant they couldn't ever delete anything from their phone. I can't remember now if it was Google or iCloud or what, but it was a huge issue. I'm glad you've got one that doesn't do that.
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