{"id":1755,"date":"2017-07-19T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiredoffice.com.au\/articles\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T05:58:18","slug":"the-perrenial-problem-of-ipad-photo-storage-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredoffice.com.au\/articles\/smarter-computing-tips\/the-perrenial-problem-of-ipad-photo-storage-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"The perrenial problem of ipad photo storage (solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"

ipads and iphones do not have a lot of storage space so you can run out of space quickly. You already know this so lets get on to what we can do about it for the sake of brevity. I’m not going to talk about google photos because we are here today talking about storage, not editing, cropping, manipulating photos. We are talking about where to safely store your photos.<\/p>\n

Backing up photos to highly unreliable external hard disks (and let’s not even mention backing up to notorious DVD’s) is probably the worst way to storage precious photos for most people. As a data recovery service our advice has always been to have very important data (photos) in at least two places. This might be on your computer or laptop hard drive and an external drive. On an ios device this might be the device plus itunes on your computer or laptop. All these above options are fraught with problems, confusion, and failure points.<\/p>\n

Regarding ipads and iphones you could use icloud. I’ve never been a fan of icloud because it costs money to get real storage space, and photos are connected to the ios eco system with minimal or no support for editing tools like Lightroom or Photoshop. icloud also backs up all photos and I cannot micro manage them.<\/p>\n

Now that google has created google Drive, a user friendly free app for iOS, backing up your photos is a no brainer. In Drive you can back up photos from the iOS app, and\/or on your computer in Google Chrome, or using the Backup & Sync app for Windows you will find on the Google Drive website storage space. Once in the web space on Chrome you can also choose to turn on Google Photos and choose to upload only into Google photos. In the iOS app you will see the setting for upload image quality, from original hi res, the so-called High Quality but compressed image which reduces the file size dramatically, so you won’t get good quality prints from these uploads.<\/p>\n

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I personally don’t use Google Photos. But I do create sub folders to quickly and easily find the photos I’m looking for. Otherwise you might end up with a wall of photos and not very good search capabilities, especially for photos with generic names from a camera or iOS device.<\/p>\n

The safety and security of your photos is mostly reliant on your password. Make sure you setup your mobile phone number as verification at your Google account, and choose a good password that is not in a dictionary, unlike Kirsten Dunst who apparently used the name of one of her cats who is a celebrity himself on her facebook page.<\/p>\n

We offer a service to set google drive up for you via online support anywhere in Australia.<\/p>\n

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