Uploading pics from phone to a tablet
- Thread starter will6910
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Better off using a cloud photo service that way pics are available on all devices anywhere with tinterweb
Flickr is good as is google photos and plenty of others
https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/guides/online-photo-storage-or-which-cloud-storage-service-is-best/
Flickr is good as is google photos and plenty of others
https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/guides/online-photo-storage-or-which-cloud-storage-service-is-best/
Roy_H
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Bluetooth?
Use a different app Flickr is free
Bluetooth will be painfully slow, if tablet has usb and os can recognise iPhone then you can try a cable again will be slow.
Fast WiFi to cloud service will be fastest if you have. A desktop or laptop PC just transfer to PC? Then to cloud?
iCloud is only one cloud like hoover (cloud is just a server in a remote location you connect to via internet)
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Philip Watkins
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As said above, use Flickr or Google pics. Standard Flickr account gives you 1TB of space for free and I think Google is unlimited free.
iCloud doesn't have enough space (5GB) unless you want to pay for it. A cheap tablet will also be short of space eventually, or even go wrong.
iCloud doesn't have enough space (5GB) unless you want to pay for it. A cheap tablet will also be short of space eventually, or even go wrong.
I don’t know how but if I take a picture on iPhone it is on iPad as well
Philip Watkins
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That works through iCloud, if you have a Mac they end up on there as well. Don't think @will6910 want's to spend iPad money though.
Cowabunga
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Basic phones have 16B of total storage, about a third or more of which is gobbled up by the operating system and apps.
Basic tablets have exactly the same storage capacity and on the likely Android tablets there will possibly be capacity to expand that with a micro SD card. Personally I would not rely on SD cards for long term storage and certainly not without having another set of duplicates on another device.
As mentioned by others, using the Cloud is the best bet. Both Apple and Android systems have the ability to automatically load and synchronise files to Cloud storage and multiple devices. The only reasons that it might not work are that the cloud storage allocated is full, or that it isn't enabled by switching it on. By the sound of it, the OP's requirement is not great and Apple's free storage allowance will be ample for the time being. All that is needed is that the feature is left switched on on the phone and that the phone connects to wi-fi now and again.
Basic tablets have exactly the same storage capacity and on the likely Android tablets there will possibly be capacity to expand that with a micro SD card. Personally I would not rely on SD cards for long term storage and certainly not without having another set of duplicates on another device.
As mentioned by others, using the Cloud is the best bet. Both Apple and Android systems have the ability to automatically load and synchronise files to Cloud storage and multiple devices. The only reasons that it might not work are that the cloud storage allocated is full, or that it isn't enabled by switching it on. By the sound of it, the OP's requirement is not great and Apple's free storage allowance will be ample for the time being. All that is needed is that the feature is left switched on on the phone and that the phone connects to wi-fi now and again.
Cowabunga
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There should be nothing for you to try. It just does it automatically in the background, assuming you have an iPhone and that it connects to your house wi-fi automatically when in range.
Cowabunga
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There is no need to click the photo to select or to do anything else. It should be and is completely automatic and in the background.
In the Photos app is where they go. Unless you've moved it, its near the top row of the default app page of your phone or iPad.
If you only have this device and no iPad or Mac, then you have to trust that the pictures are there. Except that maybe if you look in Albums in the app, they should be in 'My Photo Stream' come to think of it. If that is blank then there's no photos in the iCloud but if there are up to 1000 photos in there, you know it works.
If you have an Apple phone [It sounds like you do] but an android tablet, you might consider using another cloud storage, like Dropbox, which you should install on both devices. This can be set to harvest your photos and sync to other devices just the same as iCloud but cross platform.
In the Photos app is where they go. Unless you've moved it, its near the top row of the default app page of your phone or iPad.
If you only have this device and no iPad or Mac, then you have to trust that the pictures are there. Except that maybe if you look in Albums in the app, they should be in 'My Photo Stream' come to think of it. If that is blank then there's no photos in the iCloud but if there are up to 1000 photos in there, you know it works.
If you have an Apple phone [It sounds like you do] but an android tablet, you might consider using another cloud storage, like Dropbox, which you should install on both devices. This can be set to harvest your photos and sync to other devices just the same as iCloud but cross platform.
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Google photos work for me, normally uploaded on my iPad by the time I’ve kicked my boots off and got indoors. Videos too.