Should be pretty simple but I can't work out how to do it. I have about 9000 media items (photos and videos) on my iphone, which has filled the 64gb memory.
I've backup up all this media to my mac. How do I now compress all the media on my iphone?
Is it a case of compressing through photoshop etc, then re uploading all the media to the phone?
Thanks
iPhone 6, iOS 12
The easy way is to use iCloud
Set up iCloud Drive on all your devices - Apple SupportOfficial Apple Support › icloud
Then setup "Optimize iPhone Storage" for all your photos / videos
Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support
If you do this your iPhone will copy the original photos in the iCloud and smaller copies to your iPhone.
The nice thing is that you don't have to do any thing and the size will automatically be adjusted if you get more new photos.
The manual way could be to export all your photos from your MacBook in a smaller version (smaller resolution / quality) and import them to your iPhone.
A problem is that an export will create a new file and this file will get date & time from the export, therefore you have to change the date & time for all these files.
There are tools that can do this for you.
But you must estimate how many photos you may get in the future and pick a file size that would still work with your future photos. If your estimate is wrong you do the file size reduction again.
I have close to 35,000 photos on my iPhone, that has only 32GB memory.
I would not do this manually, but must decide if you want to pay for extra iCloud storage or if you want to take time and risk to do it manually.
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
Ralf
The easy way is to use iCloud
Set up iCloud Drive on all your devices - Apple SupportOfficial Apple Support › icloud
Then setup "Optimize iPhone Storage" for all your photos / videos
Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support
If you do this your iPhone will copy the original photos in the iCloud and smaller copies to your iPhone.
The nice thing is that you don't have to do any thing and the size will automatically be adjusted if you get more new photos.
The manual way could be to export all your photos from your MacBook in a smaller version (smaller resolution / quality) and import them to your iPhone.
A problem is that an export will create a new file and this file will get date & time from the export, therefore you have to change the date & time for all these files.
There are tools that can do this for you.
But you must estimate how many photos you may get in the future and pick a file size that would still work with your future photos. If your estimate is wrong you do the file size reduction again.
I have close to 35,000 photos on my iPhone, that has only 32GB memory.
I would not do this manually, but must decide if you want to pay for extra iCloud storage or if you want to take time and risk to do it manually.
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
Ralf
Please also Google for "reduce photo size on iPhone"
There are multiple descriptions on how to do it, some will also work just on your iPhone.
You can do it manually or you pay for service and convenience.
Yes every company is trying to earn money, so do we in our jobs.
I understand, I'm happy to pay for the service, but don't really wan't to be tied into a subscription model for this, just a one off software purchase would be great. Cool thanks, I'll google those keywords :-)
iphone SE (2nd Generation) - iOS 15.6.1
Hi Ralf, thanks for your advice, yeah I think Apple steer you towards their paid option :-/
Compressing all photos and video library on iphone
