Run out of space on your phone? Here is a free UNLIMITED backup service for all your photos and videos you should probably try it out!

Every year smartphone companies release new and improved versions of devices. From the top, mid and low range devices improvements are made on all device hardware and software.

One main feature that tends to make or break the market uptake of a device is the smartphone’s camera and the quality of images it takes but with each improvement made on camera image quality comes one major headache, storage space.

As an iPhone user, this headache is amplified with the measly 5GB “free” storage space iCloud provides to back up all my photos, videos, documents, application data, emails, and the list goes on. To add insult to injury iPhone packs in arguably the best camera in the industry which create brilliant images that can take up to 10mb of space each, by the end of a wedding you can easily take up to 500mb of images and video.

iCloud does offer larger cloud storage options but it comes at a cost I am neither prepared or willing to pay and I know Android users share similar issues but won’t be upfront about it.

I reached a tipping point a few weeks back when my 64GB device notified me it was full. I had to find a solution that not only catered for the current media on my device but all the media I had gathered in years of owning a smartphone. Nowadays I consider cloud storage as my primary option, as someone who has lost countless memory sticks dropped hard drives and had laptops stolen I recommend cloud storage as the safest and easiest way to store your documents and memories.

After looking through all the options available on the internet I settled on familiar ground with Google Photos and haven’t looked back since. Google photos offer a familiar interface with easy to use functions and features and to top it off, free UNLIMITED photo and video backup. Google photos allow you to select an option to upload all your images to its cloud service with the only drawback being it first compresses some images, making it lose some but not a significant amount of its quality.

So far I have uploaded over 40GB of images, I am literally throwing everything I find into it with some pictures dating back to high school in 200… So there is no longer need to delete your pictures, you can simply back them up to Google Photos (even the ugly ones) for safe keeping. Now, every week I make sure I back up the week’s media and clear my device starting my week with a clean slate.

One drawback, however, is the massive amount of data uploading images to cloud services consume. Please be advises that if your wifi data is capped it’s probably not the smartest thing to do. You will probably have to do the “old-school” method of drag and drop to a PC folder until you have access to unlimited wifi where you can throw everything to the cloud.

I only wrote this because I’ve always had this conversation with iPhone users, especially on the limitations of iCloud. But this option is open to everyone on Android and iOS. Unfortunately, it is not yet available on Windows Mobile.

So try it out and save yourself the headache of figuring out storage or the pain of losing all your memories!