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7 simple ways to safely back up your iPhone photos and videos

Ankur Thakur ∙ Updated August 1, 2022

I have a friend who nearly lost all of his photos of his daughter. He had his iPhone for just about two years and he took tons of pictures of her. She wasn't even two years old yet, so basically, her whole life was on his iPhone. One day, his phone crashed, and he couldn't figure out what happened to it. His pictures were lost.

He was eventually able to recover his photos, but not without hours of work and days of anxiety. When I asked him why he didn't just back his photos up, he had no good response. Always back up your precious photos. Seriously. Always back up your photos!

Here are a few different ways to back up your photos and videos so you'll never have to face the dreaded lost memories again.

Flickr Pro needs more subscribers to stay viable, says CEO

Peter Cohen ∙ December 20, 2019

An unusual email missive from SmugMug and Flickr CEO Don MacAskill is raising eyebrows, because MacAskill is asking image hosting service Flickr's Pro subscribers to get the word out about a new discount program, and MacAskill says the future of the service may depend on it.

How to download your Flickr photos and videos

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated March 20, 2024

In this tutorial, we will show you how to download all or selected Flickr photos and videos. This can be helpful if you have decided to move away from Flickr, or simply want to back up your items on your computer or cloud storage.

SmugSmug on Flickr’s free photo sharing limit

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 13, 2018

Photo haring service Flickr, now owned by SmugSmug, caused a commotion when it recently announced that its 1TB accounts will be downgraded to up to a thousand photos and videos. The free 1TB tier used to support unlimited downloads, but not anymore as SmugSmug looks to monetize its Flickr acquisition by introducing new perks for Pro accounts.

Flickr to limit 1TB account to 1000 photos/videos, new paid perks unveiled

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 1, 2018

Yahoo selling its popular Flickr service to SmugMug in April 2018 was a good move because the new owner is adamant to give the once popular photo-sharing service a new lease of life.

iPhone is once again Flickr’s most popular camera, beating out Nikon and Canon

Andrew O'Hara ∙ December 7, 2017

As Flickr does towards the end of each year, they've shared a variety of reports on the usage of their site. That includes Top Devices and Brands, as well as the Top 25 Photos of 2017. Apple continues its streak by clenching the top spot for most popular camera on the platform, by a substantial margin.

The best ways to store your iPhone photos in the cloud

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 3, 2022

Those high-quality snaps and videos you take on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad can pretty quickly eat up all of the available storage space on your device.

There are a number of techniques to increase your free storage, like deleting apps you no longer use, emptying system caches and so forth, but they all pale in comparison to the simplest of solutions—actually moving storage-hungry photos and videos off your device to safely store them in the cloud.

In this post, we'll tell you all you need to know about the most popular cloud storage solutions. We're going to detail backing up your media to each of them and discuss recommended strategies for freeing up as much storage space as possible without destroying your personal memories or changing your workflow much.

Flickr’s refreshed iOS app goes beyond 3D Touch with 3D Touch Extended

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 5, 2015

Flickr today updated its free iPhone and iPad application in the App Store with full support for iOS 9's Spotlight Search, Universal links and 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus smartphones.

It's of particular interest that the app goes beyond 3D Touch Home screen shortcuts and Peek and Pop gestures with something they're calling 3D Touch Extended.

Flickr 4.0: auto-upload is back, revamped UI, new filters, Instagram sharing and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 7, 2015

Yahoo-owned Flickr has refreshed its iPhone application this morning with a number of significant changes, most notably redesigning the user interface for easier navigation and bringing back the auto-upload feature (originally added in 2013, but subsequently removed).

The app also brings out a brand new Camera Roll section which looks a lot like the iOS Camera Roll. Coupled with one terabyte of free storage for your photo and video uploads, the new Flickr 4.0 for iOS is a worthy alternative to Apple's stock Photos + iCloud Photo Library combo.

Apple overtakes Nikon for second place camera brand on Flickr in 2014

Jake Smith ∙ Updated April 18, 2018

Flickr has released its list of camera brands that were used the most to capture photos on the photography website in 2014. The top five were: Canon at 13.4 percent, Apple at 9.6 percent, Nikon at 9.3 percent, Samsung at 5.6 percent, and Sony at 4.2 percent.

Apple overtook Nikon for the second place spot in 2014. The iPhone 5, 4S and 4 were the top three for both 2013 and 2014, with the Canon EOS 7D and the Nikon D7000 unchanged in 4th and fifth place respectively.

Flickr updated with iOS 8 Share Extension, native iPad interface with unified search and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 20, 2014

Yahoo's Flickr photography service this past weekend issued an update to its iOS app bringing, at last, native interface on iPads, a new Share Extension on iOS 8 so you can post photos to Flickr from any third-party application which support system-wide Share sheets, the ability to access and edit photo details in the mobile app, use unified search across your photos, albums, groups and Flickr photos and more.

Flickr 3.2 is available free in the App Store.

Flickr app updated with new sharing and tagging options

Cody Lee ∙ June 12, 2014

Yahoo's Flickr has updated its iOS client this morning, bringing the app to version 3.1. The update brings about a handful of useful additions, including new options for sharing, tagging and describing your photo albums.

As for the new sharing options, users can now send their albums to Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter, as well as Mail and SMS. They can also now add and edit both tags and descriptions for their photos from within the app...