It is time to protect and backup your own pictures!

The Importance of Backing Up Your Phone Photos

In today's digital age, most use their phone as othier primary camera. We snap photos of our family, friends, vacations, meals, and everyday moments. Our phones have become repositories for some of our most cherished memories.

However, many of us don't take the steps to properly back up the photos on our phones. We assume they will always be safe and accessible in that little device we carry with us everywhere. But what if you lose your phone? Drop it in water? Or it gets stolen or smashed? If you don't have your photos properly backed up, those memories could be lost forever.

Here are some key reasons why it's so important to backup your phone photos:

Avoid losing photos due to phone damage/loss: As mentioned above, if your phone is lost, broken or stolen, any photos not backed up elsewhere could be gone. Backing them up provides a redundancy.

Preserve memories over time: Phones don't last forever. Backing up photos preserves them beyond the lifetime of your phone so you'll still have them years later.

Access photos on other devices: Backing up your photos to the cloud allows you to access them on your computer, tablet, etc. Making them available across all devices.

Free up space on your phone: Photos and videos can take up a lot of storage space on your phone. Backing them up lets you delete them from your phone to free up space.

Enhances organization: Cloud services allow you to organize, tag and catalog your backed up photos. Making them easier to search and access down the road.

Allow for sharing: Backing up to the cloud makes sharing photos and videos with friends and family easier than having to go through your phone.

There are many backup options to choose from including services like Google Photos, iCloud, Amazon Photos, Dropbox, external hard drives, and flash drives. I recommend picking two services or methods and making backing up your phone photos a regular habit. For example, you could back up to both I Cloud and a photo memory stick for added redundancy. Future you will thank you when you still have all those cherished memories even after your phone is gone!

I truly hope this inspires you to double check that your precious images are safe.

Audrey 

In my research this is the top rated Photo stick:

ThePhotoStick® Omni 512GB - Secure Photo & Video Backup and Transfer

It comes with a pretty price tag ( though worth it when you are talking about years of snapshots) you can get them for less with less storage.

Here is an interesting read on the:

10 Common Backup Mistakes Most People Make

howtogeek.com/894595/common-backup-mistakes-most-people-make/