Best Online Photo Storage for iPhone 6s And Beyond

[predation]

personally, i have my own NAS at home that i back up my photo/videos.. i should look into offsite backing them up tho lol... any suggesstions for offsite backups that is seamless/compatible with my synology? :-D

 

[Aceroller]

My favorite is Flickr, 1 TB of free space for full sized pics and videos.

Google would be a good contender if it didn't mirror your camera roll. That's the sole reason why I don't like iCloud Photo Library. If I want to back up my pictures online, I want to be able to delete local copies and not have that deletion mirrored in the cloud.

Google photos is one way, it doesn't mirror your camera roll. It auto-uploads then you can delete off of your device and the cloud copy remains.

 

[Eileen89]

My favorite is Google photos. Quick, free and simple. I have about 1000 photos and videos backed up there already. I love how they make gifs and stories from your photos.

This is what I use as well.

 

[CaCHooKa Man]

I upload all my photos to Google Drive, OneDrive and iCloud

 

[Nolander07]

My favorite is Flickr, 1 TB of free space for full sized pics and videos.

Google would be a good contender if it didn't mirror your camera roll. That's the sole reason why I don't like iCloud Photo Library. If I want to back up my pictures online, I want to be able to delete local copies and not have that deletion mirrored in the cloud.

iCloud photos is essentially the same as third party cloud storage apps if you choose to optimize storage (except more convenient in my opinion). It caches a small number of photos and manages the syncing and cache automatically.
I have optimize photos on my iPad, and it works this way. All the thumbnails are in the photos app and downloads them as needed, then eventually clears them out when space is needed (automatically). The pictures are not actually on my camera roll.

I do use google photos as well, but the app ended up taking up >1 GB after a couple months of viewing photos.

 

[MICHAELSD]

iCloud photos is essentially the same as third party cloud storage apps if you choose to optimize storage (except more convenient in my opinion). It caches a small number of photos and manages the syncing and cache automatically.
I have optimize photos on my iPad, and it works this way. All the thumbnails are in the photos app and downloads them as needed, then eventually clears them out when space is needed (automatically). The pictures are not actually on my camera roll.

I do use google photos as well, but the app ended up taking up >1 GB after a couple months of viewing photos.

Is there any way to have the same thumbnail system in place with videos, including 4K?

 

[Supermallet]

I use Flickr, Google Photos, Dropbox, AND iCloud.

 

[Nolander07]

Is there any way to have the same thumbnail system in place with videos, including 4K?

I'm not sure about 4K videos, but regular videos work that way. It just takes time to load them when you want to view, but it's the same with Dropbox, Google, Flickr, etc.

 

[MichaelMidnight]

The reason I keep wonder about this is because I really think that Live Photos will be something we'll make use of in the future. It's very much like Harry Potter. It's a quick interactive picture. And just like Apple, the quality will get better and better. But that's the thing, we'll need a good place to store our masked photos as Live Photos, and I just want to make sure to store 'em right!