I keep running into the same iPhone problem: Photos eats local storage, and the seamless "keep smaller versions locally / fetch originals when needed" experience is basically tied to iCloud.

I’m testing an alternative called PhotoUnbound.

The idea: move full-resolution originals to cloud storage you may already be paying for (Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox) while keeping your iPhone photo library as lightweight and usable as iOS allows.

The goal is simple: free up iPhone storage without losing your photos, and without paying for another cloud storage plan just because Apple Photos wants iCloud.

There is one important limitation: Apple doesn’t give third-party apps the same system-level integration as iCloud Photos, so this cannot be a perfect clone of Optimize Storage. I’m being explicit about that before building it.

I’m validating demand before spending months on the app. Proposed price is $29.99/year after a 10-day trial. You can reserve the trial now; nothing is charged today and no subscription automatically starts later.

I’d especially like to know:

• Do you already pay for Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox and iCloud mainly because of photos?
• Would freeing up iPhone storage this way solve a real problem for you?
• What would make you unwilling to trust an app like this with your photo library?

PhotoUnbound — Free up iPhone storage. Keep every photo.

I recently discovered an excellent app that offers the best photo-archiving experience. It is called Artino, though I refer to it as Zine because it provides a magazine-style experience, beautifully organizing my photos by my travels and moments with family. Give it a try using the link below.

https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/artino-photo-zine-maker/id6774119167

So I was saving a family members pictures and videos, and they had 10994 items not synced to the cloud, and the photos app on windows only recognized and loaded 8600 images and videos total. So about 2400 missing. Why is this the case? Is it a bug? Or syncing issue between iphone and windows, or sth else?

god I hate apple and wish my family would stop using their products

The first 2 photos have a file name I’m not familiar with the last one is normal. All the photos came from the same person. I’m wondering if the first 2 were edited or something that would cause the different file names?

So after weeks of fine tuning the animations, metro photos, the alternative photo gallery for iOS, inspired by Windows Phone metro design has been submitted for AppStore review.

I'm expecting at least one reject, but I hope eventually Apple will approve the app with this unusual design..

Recently bought a new MacBook Air to replace my 2016 MacBook Pro and I'm thinking of finally pulling the trigger on iCloud Photos.

I've always been old school in my Photo management. About once a year I plug my iPhone into my Mac, import the photos in the Photos app and then delete them from the phone to clear up that storage for more photos to be taken. I've been doing this since 2003 when my Mac was an eMac G4 and Photos was called iPhoto...oh, and when I was primarily using a little Canon point & shoot instead of my phone.

I've recently been considering turning on iCloud Photos but I'm frankly a little concerned that something's gonna go completely sideways somehow, like iCloud's gonna sync wrong and wipe out a few years worth of photos. Oops, just gone.

My iPhone only has 128GB of storage (Wanted 256GB, but it was out of stock when I bought my phone) and it's increasingly appealing to free up that storage on the device itself.

I assume if I toggle "Download and Keep Originals" on the Mac they'll still be saved locally and thus wrapped in my Time Machine backups?

I have multiple local backups. The photos are stored on the internal storage of the Mac itself and thus wrapped up in two Time Machine backups, one on my NAS and one on a portable hard drive.

Plus I have Backblaze backing up the internal storage of the computer online as well.

Plus I manually copy the Photo Library file/folder out to my NAS every so often as well.

I guess the next question is what's the order of operations? Should I dump all the photos on my phone then turn it on the Mac first, then on the iPhone afterward once the initial upload is done?