Saving all your phone photos....

[NetflixandWill]

I've never cracked this: we're upgrading our old iPhones and I'm trying to work out where to save all my lovely photos and videos.

Where do you save them?

I've tried-
-Uploading to Facebook private albums (nightmare - it reduced the quality meaning they were unusable)
-Uploading to PhotoBox (takes so long)
Saving to laptop hard drive (but then it's a pain when we change laptop)
-Google photos (this just clogged up my phone and duplicated)

What do you do?

I don't really understand saving to the cloud on my iPhone and being able to access them again from future devices.....

I feel this is all very basic so could someone explain what everyone out there does with saving photos? Thank you!

Might be a bit old school but I make a photo book of holiday photos and then delete them from my devices.

I prefer to look at a physical book.

Google Photos and then delete them off my phone.

@whatswithtodaytoday

Google Photos and then delete them off my phone.

this is what i do

Separate hard drive. We have all photos from when digital pictures started in late 90s backed up on hard disc. I also print a few each year because printed photos last forever. Near enough.
I have family photos dating back over 100 years. My DC have lost most of the photos from their teenage years on old, broken phones and not backed up.

Dropbox

I just save to iCloud. It backs them up automatically and they're always there when you get a new phone or if you use an iPad / MacBook with the same iCloud account.
I do have to pay about £2.50/month as I have a lot of photos and other things to store but I think it's money well spent.

I have Amazon Prime which comes with free photo storage so I back everything up to that

Save to Google photos then delete anything from camera roll.

Thank you all. I'm sure I ran into Google Photos taking up masses of storage on a phone but I'll try it again. Or I can woman up and just read up on iCloud again!

It's not rocket science is it, I just have a mental block on this one. (And I have Amazon Prime so will look at their photos too)

Thank you

Printing photos is so lovely... maybe I need to carve out some time to do that once a year, too. A lost art for me!

Save to an external hard drive, I transfer from my phone through laptop to the hrs drive, they cost £20 or less and feels more secure than just an online platform

If you have an iPhone, and are upgrading to a new iPhone, as long as you use the same Apple ID for your new phone and you've set up your photos and videos to be backed up to iCloud, you'll have access to them

The Google photos then delete off phone. To be triple sure they were saved correctly, I logged into Google photos off a different device before deleting from my phone.

You really need to save your photos to more than one place so that you still have access to your photos if you get locked out of your account for any reason. I particularly like Flikr but you will have to pay a monthly fee if you have more photos than the free account will hold and you need to set your photos to private. I also have photos on Google Photos but I think they stopped allowing you to upload photos in their original resolution and I don't like the idea of reduced resolution photographs. I'd also second the idea of saving to an external hard disk because you've then covered all angles.