I only keep them there until I am able to download them into the computer, and make hard copies of ones I want.
But now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t delete them after I do that. I am synced to the cloud now. Is there any reason to keep them on my phone. I don’t typically show people pictures from it.
I keep way too many photos on my phone. I download to my computer and backup to a hard drive and flash drives, but I do like having favorites handy. I have too many favorites! I show people pictures from my phone on occasion, so keep a few of the kids, family activities/outings, etc.
My biggest space issue is taking pics of things to help my memory- items in stores, documents, things I need an opinion on- and forgetting to delete once the need for them has passed.
@conmama – Oh, to be as organized as you are – hard copies gets a big brava too!!!
My parents have reached the point where we spend time at doctors’ offices, emergency visits, hospital stays, etc. Watching videos/looking at pics of their grandchildren really helps while away the time (my kids will tell you biggest fan club ever). It also provides that “do you remember?” for walks down memory lane. Otherwise, I’d probably be a bit more vigilant with deleting.
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I do keep them on my phone. I have macs and it seems like if I delete them in one place, they all disappear. I end up doing hard drive back ups and upload to shutterfly too so there are extra back ups.
I do keep pictures on my phone - but also am paying the .99/month now for extra iCloud storage. I do not download to a computer at all. I order prints or upload pics to Shutterfly etc. to make photo books.
I use the Flic app to delete unwanted photos or those photos that I take to remember something, a food item I baked, etc. The free Flic version allows you to review 100 photos a day - swipe left to keep, right to delete (or is it the opposite?!)
I also use Google photos which gives me easy access to photos and they are dated so I can scroll back more easily to events.
I use Amazon Photos. My pictures upload as soon as I take them. I can get on the app and scroll through them or sort them on my phone. So from time to time I delete most of the pictures on my phone. Amazon Photos is part of Prime.
Because of memory space limitations on my iPhone, I do periodically download to my hard drive and delete from the phone. Then backup from the desktop to an external hard drive. I do keep a few dozen old pictures that I love on the phone.
I keep them on my phone. H downloads his to his computer. I’m the one everyone turns to when they want to see pictures. I have no plans to change.
I also show people pics relatively often. Kids at school are interested in seeing pics from our travels, friends like seeing pics of our lads, I need to show people pics of directions or similar.
Definitely no plans to change.
I do go through my pics to delete similar ones just keeping what I consider the best.
I keep a lot on my phone, but also have them automatically saved to Google Photo, so I can download them from there if I want to. Periodically I take some off phone if they get too much. I have to be careful because there’s a way that deletes from everywhere, and another way that only deletes from phone, and I always end up googling to make sure I do it the right way.
I guess I’m one that dreads it when someone pulls their phone out to show me pics. Maybe one at the most, it’s when they start scrolling, I want to scream. But I’m polite and act interested. I’m only really interested in ones my own family show me, because I’m very interested in their lives.
Probably why it’s not important for me to keep on my phone, now that I think of it.