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iPhone 12 How do you backup iphone photos and videos without icloud
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I won't tell you to use iCloud.
In fact, I have other solutions precisely because I couldn't use iCloud. iCloud has never been compatible with old PowerBooks and PowerMacs running OSX 10.5.8 Leopard you see.
Anyway, I use Dropbox. Any time I take a photo it automatically uploads to my Camera Uploads folder. Since Dropbox goes to three or four different Macs I own and a PC it's in 3 or 4 different places AND online. Periodically I sweep the Camera Uploads folder and drop all the collected pics on to a separate drive. Google Photos will do the same.
It's also an easy way to directly move a pic you just took to your computer.
As a photographer, I have the 256 gig version of this:
Works great for those times I'm outside LTE coverage area.
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Works great for those times I'm outside LTE coverage area.
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You can use an app called iMazing to backup your phone to your Mac or another external drive. It does a much better job of backing up iOS devices than Apple, and it also gives you the ability to see and extract individual items from a backup.
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iMazing lets you transfer music, files, messages, apps and more from any iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer, Mac or PC. Manage and backup your iOS device simply without iTunes. (was DiskAid)
I use an app called FileBrowser to connect my iPhone to my Mac. Once it's set up, you can copy stuff back and forth.
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I do this. Move them off my phone keeping the camera roll clean, sort the media into their categories on my local storage/backup and a copy on OneDrive. Then can access them off OneDrive if I want on my phone.
Have a shared folder on my desktop PC, then just transfer to and from via Files app using a SMB server.
Seem like the photo number can only be counted to 9999, it would be pretty hard to make sure not wrongly overwrite photos after 9999 and become 0001 again.
The files are renamed according to the subject in picture, or if there's a lot, it's put in it's own titled event folder. Haven't had an issue overwriting anything yet
Microsoft 365 is definitely a great way to have cross platform cloud data. My gripe is that their onedrive app doesn’t have great photo management feature. It’s pretty much just a thumbnail browser, and it can be tedious trying to find a photo in the past.
This is what I do but as @ian87w above says, the photo management is not great but I make do as well 1TB included with my Office 365 sub makes it worthwhile.
The files are renamed according to the subject in picture, or if there's a lot, it's put in it's own titled event folder. Haven't had an issue overwriting anything yet
You spend time to rename files then ok
I am too lazy to do that for so many photos.I don't use iCloud for any data backups. So for photos and videos shot on my phone, I either transfer them into Apple Photos or copy them as standalone media files on my Mac. Then my existing backup workflow (I maintain a Time Machine backup and a Carbon Copy Cloner backup) takes care of safeguarding my pix and movies.
Images uploaded to the Dropbox Camera Uploads folder are automatically named by the date and time. Unless I am time traveling it's going to be pretty hard to overwrite an image.
I use google photos. I also have the app on my phone so if a photo has been uploaded to google photos and no longer on my phone camera roll I can still find it.
Why not put them in separate folders tied to an event? Would you often have an event with 9,999+ photos? For those situations, I'll usually just separate it by some other means (day 1, day 2, etc. if it's a trip or something).