Best practice: Backup Users iPhones
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How is his/her storage allocated? How many APPs does it have, how much space is being taken by the photos? Does s/he need to keep all those photos and such on his device?
If it is a company phone, maybe set up Flickr in such a way that each person has their own folder to upload to on a single account.
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I ran into a phone with IOS 8.5.x and it too was broken syncing to iCloud... so nothing is perfect.
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@gjacobse said:
If it is a company phone, maybe set up Flickr in such a way that each person has their own folder to upload to on a single account.
That's a good idea. A single corporate Flickr account that you set up on each phone. You can set Flickr to auto-upload. That way you can have a central account that IT controls, for cheap, and use on as many phones as necessary or for other things other than phones, too.
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I've always found the Flickr app to be flaky.
So far, Google Photos is awesome. The only issue is that the app has to be loaded into memory for it to sync. If the app is closed (or crashes), then syncing won't happen until the user restarts the app. That could be a problem.
I'm going to give the user the option of using Google Photos using our corporate Google Apps domain or sorting his own life out using his credit card, his iCloud, and his expenses form.
Thanks for the advice, all.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I've always found the Flickr app to be flaky.
I'm using it right this second, actually. It has improved a lot recently. Uploads fast and reliably unlike the Apple Photos integrated system that breaks constantly doing the same functions.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I've always found the Flickr app to be flaky.
I'm using it right this second, actually. It has improved a lot recently. Uploads fast and reliably unlike the Apple Photos integrated system that breaks constantly doing the same functions.
It may have been the photos,.. but we put Flickr on my wife's phone... she was running out of room herself. It took three or four
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Yeah, I've always found it slow. Google Photos seems considerably faster.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Yeah, I've always found it slow. Google Photos seems considerably faster.
Have you used the current version? they just updated like a week or two back and uploads are very fast. World's faster than Apple's own upload tools.
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If I find the time I'll do a side-to-side test between Google and Flickr.
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Google Photos. Free. Unlimited.
