To wonder what everyone does with all their photos?

[soloula]

Bought a new iPhone in May and have been getting messages this week about how I'm reaching my storage limits (miss my Samsung with its expandable storage - lesson learned!). Have deleted loads of apps on my phone but it hasn't made much difference as its my photos that are taking up all the space. I'm in the process of backing up to my laptop, external hard drive and the cloud (google and Amazon) so I can wipe my phone memory to start again. I'm a bit overwhelmed by how many photos I have - mainly of dcs and the cat. I can't bear to delete too many of them but would like to be able to pick out a few favourites to view without scrolling through thousands each time.

Apart from actually printing off Photobooks (been on my to do list since DD1 was born 3 years ago to do a book for each year so unlikely to happen anytime soon!) what does everyone else do so you can actually enjoy your photos?

I have purchased more storage but see that as a temporary solution wished I had brought an android phone now

Thanks for this - was tempted to get a new iPhone for The new year but think i'Lloyd stick to my faithful Samsung.

I always print a few pictures off using freeprints app.

Also if you have a Gmail account can you use Google drive to store your photos to the cloud and delete space off the phone?

For 79p/year you can buy an extra 50gb of icloud I think. Not sure.

I store them on laptop, backed up by an external hard drive. They are stored in folders, one for each month.

I then go through each month's folder and pick out a handful of favourites, which go into a main folder for the year. This is eventually printed out and put into photo albums. Having this extra folder is also handy when you need to pick out a good photo to give to a grandparent or just to have a quick browse, because you have all your best ones together, whilst not deleting all the rest. I love my photos, and do spend a bit of time keeping on top of it

I've got Amazon prime which has unlimited photo storage and also have a years free upgraded storage on google so using too that but there are just so many photos I don't know what to do with them once they're all backed up so I can actually enjoy them

I print out my favourite ones and out in a album or frame. I use the free prints app as I find it good value

The rest are stored on a hard drive

Google photos lets you back them all up, but not quite in the original quality.

I, however, don't trust them and I have my own server with a regular backup to store them all on 😂

dailyfail I pay 79 p per month -not year-

Google photos lets you back them all up, but not quite in the original quality

You can back them up on original quantity but will then count towards your Google storage space.

OP get yourself a Chromecast then it will randomly display photos from selected goofle albums on TV for you.

We use an external hard drive that all phones and cameras are backed up to.

I put them on my laptop.

I also back them up on a memory stick.

For those that back up photos onto hard drives, do you have the icloud turned on or off on your settings on iPhones?

i had a lightbulb moment when i was wondering how to decorate the walls in my new flat on the cheap.

i transferred some onto canvas/print and now have my own 'art' collection
think i'll sell my Winter collection after the spring one is ready.....

it HAS to make me some decent money! i'm out of any other ideas

All those backing up to hard drives, make sure you use more than one drive and a RAID system, hard drives fail pretty frequently.