What is the size of your Photos library on your iOS devices?

[SOLLERBOY]

I have 30GB of iPhone pics & vids in iCloud. They use 1.5GB on my iPhone and 1GB on my iPad, both are 16GB Models (urgh).

Ive been considering moving my lightroom library of nearly 1TB of RAW files from my DSLRs to Photos so I can have my images everywhere and have been wondering the same as you, how much will that take up on device?

I'm going to get the X and can't decide between the two sizes. All I know is I can't wait to finally get away from 16GB.

 

[bopajuice]

The nice thing is that with the new-ish deep learning, it's becoming easier and easier to find stuff out of a large collection of photos. When I want to show someone pics of my Malamutes, I can just hit the search thing in the photo app and type 'dog', and there's pics of them going all the way back to when they were puppies.

So, it's unlikely anyone will go back and look at 75k photos, but having a library that is searchable means you can often find a specific pic, or set of pics, from that large library at a moment's notice.

Pretty cool.

Do you have to label the photos with keywords in order to use the search function or does the app actually look at your photos and match the content?
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I have 30GB of iPhone pics & vids in iCloud. They use 1.5GB on my iPhone and 1GB on my iPad, both are 16GB Models (urgh).

Ive been considering moving my lightroom library of nearly 1TB of RAW files from my DSLRs to Photos so I can have my images everywhere and have been wondering the same as you, how much will that take up on device?

I'm going to get the X and can't decide between the two sizes. All I know is I can't wait to finally get away from 16GB.

Using Lightroom are you able to share libraries over multiple devices? I have a terabyte of photographs going back to 2002. iPhoto and the photos are the worst when it comes to management.

 

[profets]

Do you have to label the photos with keywords in order to use the search function or does the app actually look at your photos and match the content?
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Using Lightroom are you able to share libraries over multiple devices? I have a terabyte of photographs going back to 2002. iPhoto and the photos are the worst when it comes to management.

When searching, it starts to give suggestions as you type, and then results for different searches will be listed.

I notice that I’ll usually see results for places, albums (previously made) and ‘category’. Category is based on pre-defined keywords. No work here has to be done. It just searches for the item if your search term happens to be a category. Some quick examples - house, cars, horse, pumpkin.. When I search house and hit the results for “Category House”, I get pretty accurate results of photos of houses going back to very early in my library (~2003 with photos I took with a digital camera and imported into iPhoto back in the day). I think beginning with iOS 10 Photos would go through and analyze your photo library, likely categorizing using all these keywords.

 

[SOLLERBOY]

Do you have to label the photos with keywords in order to use the search function or does the app actually look at your photos and match the content?
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Using Lightroom are you able to share libraries over multiple devices? I have a terabyte of photographs going back to 2002. iPhoto and the photos are the worst when it comes to management.

Well you could create folders and sync them to lightroom mobile and view some files on iOS that way. Or store the library on an ext HDD and swap the USB to different computers. Adobe just released a new cloud based lightroom that works the same as Apple Photos but that will also require a migration from the classic version.

 

[JamesMay82]

What’s everyone up to now? I’m 46k photos and 1000 videos at 500 GB and I mainly blame my kids as we just end up taking so many.

I keep meaning to tidy up my library but I can’t never bring myself to delete many.

 

[aenflex]

What’s everyone up to now? I’m 46k photos and 1000 videos at 500 GB and I mainly blame my kids as we just end up taking so many.

I keep meaning to tidy up my library but I can’t never bring myself to delete many.

I use Google Drive. Pretty much same as ICloud, I just prefer the interface.

I recently went through and organized our entire compendium on Drive. It took me about 15 hours and included importing from multiple phones and several drives on my husbands’s PC. I’m going to say it was well worth it. I let it get away from me for years and our photos were just a mess.

Once you do the initial dumping and organizing, it’s much easier to keep up with. Have folders for each family member and whatever subfolders under those. Ask for your family to dump their photos each night, every few days, whatever. 5 minutes each day, or even an hour each weekend is so much easier to manage.

It feels great to not take up local space on our phones with thousands of image files.

 

[profets]

What’s everyone up to now? I’m 46k photos and 1000 videos at 500 GB and I mainly blame my kids as we just end up taking so many.

I keep meaning to tidy up my library but I can’t never bring myself to delete many.

I’m at around 70K photos and 5K videos for about 620GB (yes kids and a new pet lol). Mine go back to 2001, though its funny when you scroll that far back and see just very sparse photos really just from whatever big event was happening that you’d pull out a camera.

I’m in the habit where every weekend I like to scroll through photos on my iPad, see recent ones I took, delete some bad shots. I really enjoy browsing like that on a large display.

 

[JamesMay82]

I’m at around 70K photos and 5K videos for about 620GB (yes kids and a new pet lol). Mine go back to 2001, though its funny when you scroll that far back and see just very sparse photos really just from whatever big event was happening that you’d pull out a camera.

I’m in the habit where every weekend I like to scroll through photos on my iPad, see recent ones I took, delete some bad shots. I really enjoy browsing like that on a large display.

ha I’m the same so im guessing your late 30’s early 40’s? Our photo collection is from 2001 as well but then goes berserk in 2014 when our kid was born.

 

[profets]

ha I’m the same so im guessing your late 30’s early 40’s? Our photo collection is from 2001 as well but then goes berserk in 2014 when our kid was born.

LOL good guess, dead on just about 40. I got the original iPhone in 2008 when I had a newborn, and first photo ever taken with it was of him. Kind of wild when I scroll back and see it. Though older digital camera pics go back to 2001. And a dog this past year caused a bump lol.

 

[JamesMay82]

LOL good guess, dead on just about 40. I got the original iPhone in 2008 when I had a newborn, and first photo ever taken with it was of him. Kind of wild when I scroll back and see it. Though older digital camera pics go back to 2001. And a dog this past year caused a bump lol.

ha I was giving myself room for error. I just turned 40 last month.

 

[swandy]

My library is currently around 850GB, located on an external SSD drive. It contains about almost 90K photos and about 600 videos. (But I am almost 70 and have been taking photos since I was a teenager.....)

 

[satinsilverem2]

My iCloud Photo Library is 672.6GB, 3.79GB of which is on my phone locally.