A common question I hear is "how do I share photos from my smart phone" or "how do I get photos off my smart phone?" You can copy ALL photos from your smart phone quickly and safely so they don't get accidental deleted. Do it automatically and without wires.
Many are very particular about how they organize their photos and that's all well and good but getting them from the smart phone to the computer is a bigger struggle.
I strongly
recommend using an online service and there are a few which I will list below.
However, I want to stress that if you want ease and worry free, then invest
just a little money(some some) and time to sign up for one of these services.
Facebook
and Google+ stop at uploading photos to the cloud with an extra step on your part to move those photos to your PC or Mac. . Dropbox and OneDrive
actually synchronize those photos to your Mac(Dropbox) or PC(both Dropbox and OneDrive). I strongly recommend one
of these two services although Dropbox is my favorite.
All of the
below services are FREE, however, additional storage space have a fee.
Go to App Settings / Synch Photos and turn this On. This allows ALL photos to go to Facebook. Once the photos are on Facebook, click here to see what else you can do.
From the Menu, choose Photos > Turn On at the lower left. There are other choices to fine tune your uploads like only doing this when on WiFi to avoid excessive data usage (I do this). Click here for more on Google+.
Within the Dropbox app, choose Settings > Turn On Camera Upload. You can choose WiFi only too if you wish. With these settings, all NEW photos will automatically upload to a folder called Camera Upload on Dropbox. This Camera Upload folder will then, AUTOMATICALLY, synchronize down to any of your computers (Mac or PC) if it has Dropbox installed there too. For more information about Dropbox and photos, click here.
OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) from Microsoft
Unfortunately,
OneDrive does NOT have an automatic synch at this time but it is easy enough to
upload an entire list of photos from your smart phone to SkyDrive.
Within the OneDrive app, touch the upward arrow to Upload
Photos and Videos. For more information about using OneDrive, click here.
Creating a OneDrive account is a bit more cumbersome than all the others.
All of
these services are available for Android, iOS and Windows Phones as well as Mac
and PC.
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