I was using 2 devices the first time, an old iPhone which I have iCloud Photos enabled with Original files downloaded (device A) and my current iPhone w/iCloud Photos Optimized (device B). I have over 40,000 photos and 1,000 videos on my device I'm backing up, and actually backing up for the second time. Also, the live chat on their website is excellent for support as well! If anyone has any questions I'm availabe to offer my insight. I got it with the sole intention of a secondary cloud backup. and unlimited at that! Can't beat that for the price. It's not fancy like Google Photos-no face detection, search, or albums, it's just straight up photos & videos backup. I already have Unlimited Google Drive/Photos, Amazon Photos (i don't backup videos here), and iCloud Premier. I bought 2 accounts, one for me and one for my wife. I however have another method of backing up all the photos and this is just a 2nd layer. The price is unbeatable and I am more forgivable with the lack of some features. I haven't tested yet the recovery process on another device so I don't know if all the exif data is kept. The movement portion of such images will not be available in the images backed up to IDrive Photos." And I can attest that the movement part is not present in the backup :(Īnother minus is that you can't choose which albums to backup the app selects photos&videos but it is not clear what is left out (bursts, slow motion etc). One minus is that they advertise this : " Can I backup live motion images with IDrive Photos? Yes, live motion images (photos with motion) can be backed up from iOS devices." but it is lying by omission because if you read the "/terms-and-conditions" page you'll see the real truth at no#12: " Your live motion images (photos with motion) will be backed up as still images. On my iPhone XS iDrive app the files that haven't been uploaded yet have a a small tag to let you know there is no backup yet for them. This is understandable as they are probably doing recoding to send you a smaller file but quickly. I clicked to preview a couple of video files and it worked out well too, even though the quality was not so good. I could open the browser version and have seen the files there with no problem. I have about 8000 photos and videos (~200 GB) and after about 1.5 hours 40 GB were uploaded. In my opinion the upload speed is quite good. I have created an iDrive Photos account and started uploading files today. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”
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