How to Save iPhone Photos to iCloud

The photographs and videos of our iPhone have become increasingly important as they acquire better cameras. This however has a clear disadvantage and that is that they can take up a lot of space that deprives us of continuing to store more or the possibility of installing applications. But there is a way to make them less busy by storing them in iCloud. In this post we tell you how you can do it.

iphone photos to icloud

Activate iCloud Photo Library on iPhone

The process of storing photos and videos in iCloud is automatic, since you will not have to do anything manually. However, you must have previously activated an option for it to take place. To do this you must go to Settings> Photos and activate the option “Photos in iCloud”.

Fotos iCloud Ajustes iPhone

It should be noted that you can continue viewing this content in the Photos app on your iPhone, but you can specify whether you want to optimize storage or download original photos . If you don’t want them to take up too much space, you should activate the first option. You should also know that these photos will be visible on other computers such as iPad and Mac if you also activated the option on them. Of course, do not delete the photos from the app, since in that case they will also be removed from iCloud.

Another advantage of uploading the photos to iCloud is that you can recover them even if you restore the iPhone . Even doing a restoration without backup you can have them synchronized with other data and information such as Safari bookmarks, contacts or messages. All this is managed from Settings> your name> iCloud by activating the corresponding options.

ICloud pricing

There is a downside to iCloud storage, as it is not free. When you create an Apple ID you get 5 GB at no cost, but in many cases this is insufficient to store your photos and other files. Therefore you should resort to paying a monthly fee with which to obtain more space. The prices in Spain are these:

  • 50 GB: for 0.99 euros per month.
  • 200 GB: for 2.99 euros per month.
  • 2 TB: for 9.99 euros per month.

In principle, we believe that a 50 GB rate may be enough for many people, but if you want to gain in health to not be at the limit of 2.99 euros, it will almost always suffice. If in addition to the photos you are thinking of storing numerous files, the 2 TB would be convenient. You can check the rates according to your country on the Apple website . We recommend you see our article on how to buy more iCloud space for more information.

Store photos on iCloud Drive

The name of iCloud actually refers to a complete service in which iCloud Drive is distinguished as the cloud storage system. In other words, our own cloud desktop like the one we can have on other platforms such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Here we can store any type of file and access it from any device with internet access, even if it is not from Apple.

If you want to delete any trace of your photos and videos from the Photos app, but you don’t want to lose them completely, you can use this service to keep them safe. To do this you must follow these steps:

Subir fotos iCloud Drive

  1. Access the Photos app from the iPhone
  2. Select those photos and videos that you want to import into iCloud.
  3. Press the share button at the bottom left.
  4. Click on “Copy photos”.
  5. Access the Files app.
  6. Search or create the folder where you want to paste the items, make a long press and click on the “Paste” option .

The process of pasting the photos may be more or less fast depending on the size of the files and your internet connection, since they will have to be uploaded to the server. Once that has been uploaded you can delete those photos from the Photos app without worrying about losing them, since they will continue on iCloud Drive.

To access the photos from other devices you will have to go to the Files app if it is another iPhone or iPad, through Finder if you have a Mac and from the iCloud app on a Windows PC. On an Android device, you will have to access it from the iCloud website , which is also operational in the previous ones, although it is a less comfortable method considering that they have an app optimized for their systems.