Smartphone pics. What do you do with them?

[Levina de Ruijter]

What do you do with your smartphone pics? Do you just let them sit on your phone or do you move them to your hard drive (possibly to edit maybe in Lightroom also)?

I ask because I find myself taking more pics with my iPhone than ever before and wonder what to do with them.

 

[Capn Jack]

It depends on the picture. I'll keep some on the phone, I'll copy others to save. Pictures from iOS need to be very important before I copy to a computer because copying them is such a pain. Other pictures get deletes after I'm done sharing them.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

save. Pictures from iOS need to be very important before I copy to a computer because copying them is such a pain.

I’m on a Mac, and I use iCloud, so I just drag them from Photos to my desktop.

Other pictures get deletes after I'm done sharing them.

Interesting. Anything I share, I keep. Or else the only copy I would have is the place where I shared it and if that place ceases to exist, my pic is gone.

 

[Capn Jack]

I’m on a Mac, and I use iCloud, so I just drag them from Photos to my desktop.


Interesting. Anything I share, I keep. Or else the only copy I would have is the place where I shared it and if that place ceases to exist, my pic is gone.

Some of what I share are humorous to a small group and don't have artistic merit. One example was a sign my employer posted in various places for "Employee Appreciation Week". One person was fired during that week, and some wag added "Except XXXX" to the signs. Or I have a better image on my camera, but I'm sharing a place some of us have visited in the past.

The iOS ecosphere doesn't play as well with Windoze as much as I would like.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The iOS ecosphere doesn't play as well with Windoze as much as I would like.

Really? If it's Apple being difficult then that's not smart as many Windows users have an iPhone.

 

[Optiq]

Amazon has a photo app that I believe you can set up to auto upload your pics. If it has a limit, it's huge and it's free.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Amazon has a photo app that I believe you can set up to auto upload your pics. If it has a limit, it's huge and it's free.

That sounds nice. And quite handy.

 

[LtDave]

ive only printed a few to hang on the wall but my wife used to do those snapfish or shutter something books from out trips and she would sometimes use pics from my cell phone or hers.

right now, i mostly use them for a quick image on the web (i email the image from myself to myself) and while its not the most ideal thing, it works for me

 

[Markuswelder]

I've got my smartphone set to automatically sync to my NAS. I run a cheap Chinese Android phone (Oppo A80 5G I think) which is tied to Google. Or a google account anyway. I did have it set to sync/backup over WiFi only, but Google seems to want to fight with my Synology Drive app (the Synology equivalent of Google drive) over the task. Google seems to try and take over the backup, or at the least stop the Synology app from working. So I've set the backup settings to all the time -not just WiFi, and we'll see what happens. It might also be happening when the phone gets its updated too, we shall see.
It's actually pretty annoying, one of the reasons I've switched over to Linux, as Microsoft Windows has made it really really difficult -nearly impossible, to try and store your own data on your own computer. Google is not far behind. It's just money grubbing, trying to get you to pay for their storage, rather than use your own. And they're catching tonnes of unsuspecting people too by the way.