iPhone XR Have only iPhone how to backup my photos/videos to another harddrive or similar?

[shankar2]

Hi so I only have an iphone (no computer). I'm running ios 13.x is there any way to directly backup my photos/videos to an external device like harddrive? What app to use? Thanks!

 

[eyoungren]

AFAIK, there is no direct way to do it. There may be an app that in combination with some piece of hardware might be able to work but I wouldn't know.

For myself, I use Dropbox. It has a Camera Uploads feature and anything that gets saved into my camera roll on my phone goes up to Dropbox. I also have Dropbox on my computers. So, after taking a picture or video it automatically appears on my computers because they are connected to Dropbox. It's a simple matter of moving the file out of the Camera Uploads folder anywhere I like after that.

Google Photos functions much in the same way as well and presumably (I've never used it) iCloud Photos does the same.

 

[shankar2]

Thing is I only have an iPhone, no computer. There’s no hardware with app, wireless etc that’ll backup photos videos via say, wifi?

 

[DieselFiend1989]

Lightning to usb adapter, save photos/videos to icloud or phone storage, connect self powered external drive or thumb drive, use files app to transfer to drive. It will be slow.

 

[shankar2]

Yes my photos are saved to iCloud. How do i use files app to move photos to external device like hd?

 

[now i see it]

you cant

 

[F308gt4]

Something like this? I have a similar one. It works, but is veeery slow.

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