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Q: Keeping synced photos on device when originals have been lost

Hi!

 

Product: iPhone 5 (32GB), just updated to iOS 10.0.1.

 

Some time ago, I synced a number of photos from my computer to my iPhone. I was recently forced to change computers and lost most of these photos. So the originals (from the last computer) are gone; they exist for me now only on my iPhone, from the last time I synced it to my (last) computer's photo album.

 

I'd like to sync my phone to my new computer to back it up, but I know that in doing so I'll lose the photos when the phone won't find them on my new computer during the sync. Is there any way to save these photos - either to the phone, or bringing them from the phone back to the computer - without having to create duplicates of every single one to the phone's Camera Roll?

 

Thanks.

iPhone 5, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 10:32 PM

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  • by TheExpolsiveCow,

    TheExpolsiveCow TheExpolsiveCow Sep 15, 2016 10:38 PM in response to effgeeen
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    Sep 15, 2016 10:38 PM in response to effgeeen

    If you have enough iCloud storage, I would recommend turning on iCloud photo library, which will automatically upload your iPhone pics to iCloud, where they will be saved and also become accessible to your mac.

  • by gail from maine,Apple recommended

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 15, 2016 10:43 PM in response to effgeeen
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    iCloud
    Sep 15, 2016 10:43 PM in response to effgeeen

    You can go into the Photos>Moments view, select as many date groups as you wish (in this view, when you tap on Select, all photos within a particular Date get selected. Once you have all the photos selected, you can then tap on the Share button in the bottom left-hand corner, then click on the Save "xx" Images option. This will put all of those photos back into your Camera Roll.

     

    Then, you want to hook up your device to the computer, and import those photos to your photos app on the computer. It is this Photos Library that the iTunes Photos sync works with. So, you need to get them there. Here is a support article with how to import your Camera Roll Photos:

     

    IMPORTING PHOTOS - WINDOWS/MAC

     

    Best of luck,

     

    GB

  • by gail from maine,Apple recommended

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 15, 2016 11:14 PM in response to gail from maine
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    Sep 15, 2016 11:14 PM in response to gail from maine

    Apparently, I ran out of time to be able to add these screenprints to the post above, so here they are for illustrative purposes:

     

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    Cheers,

     

    GB