iPhone X Backing Up iPhone Photos to External Hard Drive

[joshuakrey]

I hope this is the right subforum. My wife and I have a lot of photos on our iPhone thanks to a new baby. I was wondering if there is a way and set up to wirelessly back-up our photos from our iPhone to an external hard drive that is connected to a Mac? Like airdropping it or an app or another way?

 

[Banglazed]

You can use.

1. iCloud Photo Library or iCloud backup (be careful since deleting a photo on device may delete it off iCloud)
2. AirDrop photos from iPhone to Mac
3. Connect iPhone to Mac and use iPhoto to import photos
4. Use online cloud photo storage like OneDrive, Google Photos, DropBox etc
5. iTunes WiFi sync Step 1 - Specify contents to sync with iTunes & Step 2 - Enable iTunes sync via WiFi

 

[jr866gooner]

I hope this is the right subforum. My wife and I have a lot of photos on our iPhone thanks to a new baby. I was wondering if there is a way and set up to wirelessly back-up our photos from our iPhone to an external hard drive that is connected to a Mac? Like airdropping it or an app or another way?

Just to get a copy of the photo I’d use either google photos or Dropbox. I personally use GPhotos but I’m not worried too much on quality of photos. I can’t remember if google reduce the image quality on the free photo tier.

 

[ericwn]

To add to the previous posts: in order to import photos via the cable you don’t need iPhoto. On a Mac this was replaced by the photos app a while ago, but image capture app in OS X would also import them to a folder of choice.

On a PC, the same workflow to import images from a digital camera should also work on an iPhone too.

 

[Txguy82]

Just to get a copy of the photo I’d use either google photos or Dropbox. I personally use GPhotos but I’m not worried too much on quality of photos. I can’t remember if google reduce the image quality on the free photo tier.

They do.