It is time to review storage status on iPhone, iPad and iCloud or other online service. Maybe because you are considering upgrading to the iPhone 12Pro or because your iCloud storage is straining at the seams and devices cannot back up (my story).
Colleen sent me an article in Apple News: iPhone Trick Lets You Delete Photos Without Losing Them Forever - Hello extra storageRead in LADbible: https://apple.news/AioBufqNzQ_WuB0K4HBvhiA
How have you organized your devices and iCloud?
This might be a good time to remind everyone that workflow and storage are moving targets. As our operating system updates and new features are released, we want to review how to modify our settings and choices to maximize the newest security and features presented. Back in the day, this included moving your files from floppy disk to optical (CD/DVDs) and now to USB or SSD (solid state drive) drives. It also means evaluating the amount of storage space we are using and what our needs will be in the near future (one-to-two years).
Some photographers still keep working computers with optical drives around in case they need to retrieve old images on discontinued media formats.
My 200GB iCloud storage was too full to backup my iPhone. So began the ultimate purge of photos. Looking at the iCloud Storage graph, Photos is over 100GB. My shooting style is to take many shots of some subjects and then edit the best using many apps thus creating more images. Because of this class I often make Screenshots as well. That was the easiest group of photos to cleanup. My current iCloud settings allow for syncing between iPhone and iPad (iMac is not yet in this mix). It is easier to review photos on the iPad:
- Tap Library in the sidebar
- Tap Years in the top menu then tap the year to review, scroll to January
- Tap All Photos in the top menu (now duplicate/same photos appear!)
- Tap the box to hide the sidebar list
- Pinch in to shrink the thumbnails or pinch out to see bigger thumbnails
- Swipe up to see other photos
- Tap Select then tap on thumbnail to mark with check
- Tap on other duplicate images to mark
- Tap Trash Can to delete marked photos
- Also, look at a photo full size to choose to delete
At the beginning of this semester I had 24,170 and now 18,813 with three years yet to review. This is important because there are may old digital images I want to add back into my Photo Library from 1995 to 2008 from earlier digital cameras. Eventually I will scan older 35mm slides to add as well.
As you adventure down this road, take Before and After Screenshots to remind you of what changes have been made.
