I’m a huge fan of making sure my digital files are backed up, especially photos. As a professional photographer, I have zero tolerance for accidental losses – so all my photos are saved in three separate places.
Even my backup has a backup!
My iPhone photos are equally as important to me, so I also make sure to keep them secure at all times.
If you’re not sure if you need to improve your photo backup game, ask yourself:
- If I lost my iPhone today, how many personal photos would be gone forever?
- If my iPhone fell off a boat and sank to the bottom of the ocean, how many photos would I be sad about losing?
If those two questions filled you with dread, you probably need a better photo backup system!
Here’s what I recommend:
Backup your iPhone photos to DropBox.
If you’re wondering why I don’t backup to iCloud: DropBox costs less for photo storage.
I pay about $14 (Canadian) per month to get 2TB of storage in my DropBox account.
I set it to automatically backup my iPhone photos as soon as I take them. Easy peasy.
Here’s how:
Create a DropBox account, pay for extra storage. 2TB is a great amount of space. I calculated that I could store over 100 years of photos or 139 hours of iPhone video. That’s A LOT. And for only $14 per month, it’s well-worth it.
Install the DropBox app on your iPhone.
Open the app and go to Account.
Next, go to Camera Uploads.
–> Select “Upload from Camera Roll”.
I include videos.
–>Select “Save HEIC photos as… JPG”.
And that’s it!
Now, every time you take a photo with your phone, it will be automatically backed up into your DropBox account.
If someone steals your phone or if your phone gets run over by a bus, you have a back up of all your photos and videos off-site in DropBox.
Peace of mind.
