My wife's Iphone 5C has got a few gigs of pictures of on it. Nice way to document the early parts of our marriage, but it takes up a ton of space on her phone.
I've gone into the iphone and cut and pasted the pictures to our computer. Easy.
A month later, all the pictures are back on her phone, taking up space.
Do I need to remove the picture backup function from the phone?
Buy an Android with a 128GB SD card
Sounds like they are being backed up to iCloud. Check iCloud under Settings.
Also check to see if they are actually on the device (Settings - General - Usage). They can be setup so the pictures are stores on the cloud, but can be seen on the phone (this drove me a bit nuts trying to backup pictures that weren't there on my GF phone).
BTW - the easiest way to back up photos from an iPhone to a PC if you don't want to use iTunes (who does?), is to just plug it into a PC (ignore iTunes, turning off autostart iTunes is a good idea) and wait for the prompt and select backup pictures (or something like that).
Well I've got them off the phone, that was easy, but I don't want them on the phone anymore. It as though the iphone says "oh no we've lost all these pictures, restore restore!" and it brings them all back from the dead.
Yes, you need to turn off the iCloud backup of pictures. I found out my iPhone was doing the same thing when I tried to upload pics to Photobucket. They appeared to be in my albums, but weren't available to upload. I also found out it was using up all of my data trying to backup EVERYTHING on my phone constantly. I'm sure the settings changed during some software update.
Apples days are numbered. Buy a blackberry. I hit the little trash can, it asks me if I'm sure and gone forever. Meanwhile, my wife cant even take a photo because her memory is full. And every time you reconnect to spam tunes they come back. Oh, but for $40.00 worth of extra rip off cloud, you can store more.
bearmtnmartin wrote: Apples days are numbered. Buy a blackberry.
Bwaaa haa haa haaaa!
Seriously? Blackberry?
It's easy enough to change settings for backup.
bearmtnmartin wrote: Apples days are numbered...
Apple's 200 BILLION 
in cash reserves say you are wrong. 
This drove me nuts too! icloud = off
bearmtnmartin wrote: Apples days are numbered. Buy a blackberry. I hit the little trash can, it asks me if I'm sure and gone forever. Meanwhile, my wife cant even take a photo because her memory is full. And every time you reconnect to spam tunes they come back. Oh, but for $40.00 worth of extra rip off cloud, you can store more.
Uh, yeah.... I just delete the photo from my iPhone and its gone. I can select a whole bunch of them if I'd like and then click on the trashcan icon (wonder where that idea came from, eh?) I don't back my photos up to iCloud because I can count and I knew that there wasn't space for photos without paying, I just use it for contacts and phone settings so I can restore it if I lose it.
Pictures are automatically sync'd to Google Photos and our internal server on a routine basis.
I haven't used iTunes via a PC since I bought the phone nearly two years ago.
Perhaps you should LEARN how to use the technology instead of talking about something you haven't bothered to learn anything about.
To the OP, double check the iTunes sync'ing settings as it can and will sync over Wi-Fi if you let it and that will dump all of the photos back onto the device. I learned early on with iTunes, do not let it sync on its own. You'll cause more annoyances than if you pick and choose what (if anything) you'd like to sync with the device.
Uhhhhhh
Like clockwork, any time there is a blackberry recommendation, I check profiles and it is a Canadian.
Blackberry still has some popularity in Canada but near zero in US.
Keith Tanner wrote:bearmtnmartin wrote: Apples days are numbered. Buy a blackberry.Bwaaa haa haa haaaa! Seriously? Blackberry? It's easy enough to change settings for backup.
Thank you for not making me the first person to have to laugh at that in the thread.
Our company went kicking and screaming away from its blackberry's. We must have "business class" phones not these iPhone toys after all. Meh, now its all iDevices and no one is complaining but the people who didn't know how to use their Blackberry either.
As a Canadian, I can laugh at Blackberry. RIM has been doing a slow motion crash for about a decade now, and every new device is about to save them but doesn't. My family in Ottawa all use them, but that's because my brother in law works for the feds so he gets a discount.
Why do people use iTunes? I've had 2 different iPhones over the past 5 years and have never needed it.
I delete photos and they are gone. I dump them all to a hard disk backup every time I fill up the phone (so 8 gigs at a time ish).
I have a couple of friends who still love Blackberry, but the new stuff is more Android than BB anymore.
ProDarwin wrote: Why do people use iTunes? I've had 2 different iPhones over the past 5 years and have never needed it. I delete photos and they are gone. I dump them all to a hard disk backup every time I fill up the phone (so 8 gigs at a time ish).
If you delete them on the device (iphone) they will be removed. If you delete them while in Windows, the phone thinks the photos have been lost and restores them (if backup is turned on).
What is this iPhone thing you speak of. As I type this from my soon to be extinct windows phone.
Jitterbug is the answer
Actually it's not, it keeps restoring things that you haven't even deleted yet under the presumption that you've forgotten them.
not reading all this crap, but from the photo album page click other albums in the bottom corner. it'll have a recently deleted file, and keep all deleted stuff from the last 30 days. delete forever from there.
Amazon cloud drive. Included with prime.
Keith Tanner wrote:bearmtnmartin wrote: Apples days are numbered. Buy a blackberry.Bwaaa haa haa haaaa! Seriously? Blackberry? It's easy enough to change settings for backup.
Yeah, THIS. Failure to bother learning the software and making appropriate settings does not mean that the product sucks and the company is circling the drain.
It's easy enough to dictate precisely what you want to back up or sync and how you want it to do so. You just have to look at a few different tabs.
Funny. I had four Iphones in a row. They are money sucking privacy invading corporate assberkeleys. I am not a blackberry booster. I could have said any other brand but a BlackBerry is what I happen to have right now. But what I will never have again is an apple anything.
I am always mystified when I throw out an idle comment and I come back 8 hours later to see a full page of pissed off retorts!
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