Save iPhone photos to "iCloud" or "Google Photos"? Comparing the two again: Kei Ogikubo's iPhone camera course (1/4 page)

A long time ago, every time I bought a new iPhone, I was worried about what to do with the photos I had taken.

It's an era where you can quickly retrieve photos taken with the first iPhone in 2007 and photos taken with the iPhone 11 Pro in 2020. Until now, a device that fits in the palm of your hand has never been seen in the same way with photos 13 years ago and recent photos.

The iPhone is a device that records your daily life and shares it quickly if you like, so you can collect more and more casual photos. Even if it's a photo that doesn't happen when you take it, it will become more important as time goes by, from 1 year to 2 years and from 2 years to 5 years, so I want everyone to keep it.

If you want to do something that wasn't black history, or if it's too black history to be excavated in the future, you should get rid of the dangerous photos, but that's it.

However, since the storage of the iPhone is limited, it is impossible to bring it to a new iPhone as it is after using it for 5 years and 10 years. There isn't enough storage, and a large iPhone is expensive. So some people said they would erase the old ones during the transition.

In the past, it was basic to connect a cable to a PC and store photos there. For those who don't have a PC, storage that can be directly connected to the iPhone to transfer photos has also appeared.

In the old days, the important thing about photos is not to lose them, so back them up, but the times are a little advanced. Now it's not just "just leave it".

When you want to see an old photo, it doesn't make sense if you can't take it out.

Whenever I want to see (or show) a photo I took a few years ago, it doesn't make sense in the present era to say, "Oh, that was only on the old iPhone" or "only on my home PC."

Even at home, I remember taking that picture about 5 to 6 years ago, but it doesn't make sense how to find it in this folder group.

In other words, it is a service that requires not to lose all the photos taken with the iPhone, to be able to back up fully automatically and wirelessly, and to be easy to see and find at hand at any time and not to overwhelm the storage of the iPhone.

Apple's iCloud was the first to solve that problem. Introducing iCloud Photo Library in 2014. Then, in 2015, Google will start a service to store photos in the cloud as "Google Photos".

There are many ways to back up your photos, but unless you're very familiar with solving those issues and can build your own photo management workflow, you should still try either iCloud or Google Photos first. It will be.

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