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CidCock
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Offloading photos from iPhone

My wife has thousands of pictures on her phone that need be offloaded to free up some cloud storage. What is the easiest way to remove those from the phone; physically or through the cloud, if i want preserve the meta data? In the past, I have done so by conneting the phone to PC and searching for files, but is there an easier way that doesnt involve renaming photos (the various photo folders sometimes use the same file name)?

I will store them on an external hard drive for safe keeping and back them up on google photo (unfortunately, my account is nearly full, so may need to find a better cloud storage solution now that google is charging).


CAD703X
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Member since Jul 2008
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
do you have a google account?

you can just install google photos on the phone and it will automatically start to upload all photos and videos including metadata.

if you want original quality you may have to pay $2/mo for 100GB (first 17GB are free).

This is the easiest way to get them out and you can share any link to any photo or album with anyone.
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ellunchboxo
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Member since Feb 2009
18360 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
We use Amazon Prime Photo for that. Open the app and it auto uploads everything on your phone. Then you can delete.


CidCock
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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CAD703X


Thanks man, I do have Google Photos and back hers up to her account (which is almost full also). So, I may create another account for her 2022 photos just to keep them on the cloud and share it with her main accout so they can still be viewed. That being said, I still like to have a copy stored on a hard drive. I had just as much difficult offloading them from Google and keeping the dates, location, etc.


CAD703X
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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I had just as much difficult offloading them from Google and keeping the dates, location, etc.

i haven't used google takeout on photos; does it mangle the metadata when it exports everything?


Dam Guide
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Sep 2005
14810 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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if you want original quality you may have to pay $2/mo for 100GB (first 17GB are free).


200GB iCloud is only 2.99, might as well just upgrade your iCloud account and not do anything
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blueridgeTiger
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18422 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
I use the free version of FoneTool.


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Korkstand
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
Sounds like you want a NAS.


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Tortious
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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i haven't used google takeout on photos; does it mangle the metadata when it exports everything?


It's a hassle with the files being split up into different zips and it didn't make sense to me why/how they split them. Ended up using a program called Google Photos Metadata Fixer. $24 well worth the money to get them all on my NAS.


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theantiquetiger
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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We use Amazon Prime Photo for that. Open the app and it auto uploads everything on your phone. Then you can delete.


This^^^^^

It’s free if you are a Prime member


CidCock
USA Fan
Member since Sep 2007
Member since Feb 2011
8577 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
Thanks guys. Just reading some of these replies. Going to check out some of these options today.


Harahan Boy
New Orleans Saints Fan
Harahan LA
Member since Feb 2022
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
Has anyone used photostick?

LINK


lsuwins3
LSU Fan
Member since Nov 2008
1425 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
I used a version of it. Upload photos to the USB you plug into phone then it plugs into computer . Then delete on phone.


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Tempratt
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Member since Oct 2013
11746 posts

re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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iCloud


ICloud is more of a photo/video sharing platform.

A better solution is Microsoft’s one drive/sky drive.

$3/month and deleting off your phone won’t delete it off your phone.


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NPComb
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Member since Jan 2019
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re: Offloading photos from iPhone
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Sounds like you want a NAS.


Yep. Even external SSD's are cheap AF.


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