I have 4,800 photos on my current phone of which about 1,000 are in my albums. When moving my data to a new iPhone is it possible to just move the 1,000 photos that are in the albums?

Turn on 'settings > photos > icloud photos' which saves all your photos to your icloud account, and replaces them with smaller versions on your phone. Then when you get your new phone ready, log into icloud and select the photos you want downloaded.

They made it real simple depending on what model iPhone you have. When setting up you scan a pattern on your old phone, then set them both side by side while it transfers everything from the old phone to the new one.

Please, back up the photos to your PC or Mac. And also back up the entire iPhone as well.

iCloud photos is not a great solution because it uploads the full quality files and leaves compressed files on the phone to save space. Standard iCloud storage is 5GB, but you can get 50GB for $0.99 a month.

Another option:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...e/dp/B01CIEBU22?th=1

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Please, back up the photos to your PC or Mac. And also back up the entire iPhone as well.

iCloud photos is not a great solution because it uploads the full quality files and leaves compressed files on the phone to save space. Standard iCloud storage is 5GB, but you can get 50GB for $0.99 a month.

Maybe I'll try that, again. I tried transferring my photos from my previous iPhone to my Mac. I connected them together, followed the instructions and watched them moving to the mac for a while then it locked up. After waiting almost an hour I unconnected them to see what did transfer. Maybe 1/3 did but only in thumbnail files, when enlarging them to screen size they were horrible.

If you’re talking about transferring files from on old phone to a new one, doing a side by side transfer will do the job. I’ve done it a half dozen times or so and picture quality is identical.

I miss the old days where you could just open the iphone up as a folder on your computer and drag and drop pictures.

Everytime I try to do a backup to the computer it never sees my phone as anything but a new phone.

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Originally posted by ridewv:

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Please, back up the photos to your PC or Mac. And also back up the entire iPhone as well.

iCloud photos is not a great solution because it uploads the full quality files and leaves compressed files on the phone to save space. Standard iCloud storage is 5GB, but you can get 50GB for $0.99 a month.

Maybe I'll try that, again. I tried transferring my photos from my previous iPhone to my Mac. I connected them together, followed the instructions and watched them moving to the mac for a while then it locked up. After waiting almost an hour I unconnected them to see what did transfer. Maybe 1/3 did but only in thumbnail files, when enlarging them to screen size they were horrible.

Something went wrong. Just go to the "Photos" app and import everything from the iPhone into the app. Make sure it is set not to delete the photos from the phone after synch. What you are describing is possibly that you already have iCloud photos enabled on the phone (it is activated by default), and only the lower rez copies are on the phone. If you enable iCloud photos on both the phone and the Mac then you should see everything in the Photos app.

I have more than 20 years of photos in the Photos app on my iMac so it's too big to use iCloud photos without buying ton of iCloud storage.

Apple has no real way of doing half the stuff you want.

Apple died with Steve Jobs..

Nothing is made easy with Apple. All kinds of promises and no real results.


iCloud is a mess 5 small gigs for massive photo/video files. A video format no one uses but apple so good luck sharing.

Thanks for all the suggestions, meanwhile I've been doing what I should have all along which is keep the files uncluttered by deleting photos I don't want to keep. But deleting a couple thousand is tedious. I "select" all 15 photos on the screen to delete in bulk only to have pop up "deleting one or more photos will also delete them from an album". So when that happens I have to unselect and delete them one by one.
My new 13 Pro cam a couple days ago and I haven't even opened the box. Any tips how to move my SIM from an 8 to 13?

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Originally posted by ridewv:
Thanks for all the suggestions, meanwhile I've been doing what I should have all along which is keep the files uncluttered by deleting photos I don't want to keep. But deleting a couple thousand is tedious. I "select" all 15 photos on the screen to delete in bulk only to have pop up "deleting one or more photos will also delete them from an album". So when that happens I have to unselect and delete them one by one.
My new 13 Pro cam a couple days ago and I haven't even opened the box. Any tips how to move my SIM from an 8 to 13?

You don't change the sim card as the new one is for 5G.