How to Auto Backup Photos to OneDrive from Any Mobile Device?

Windows Live OneDrive is a Microsoft service which allows you to backup photos, videos and important files to cloud server. You can also share OneDrive photo, videos and files with friends and family via email. It allows you to automatically sync & upload photos to Skydrive from any mobile device. To automatically backup photos from your mobile device to OneDrive, simply Turn ON the Camera Backup feature. If you are looking for a step by step process to automatically backup photos to OneDrive from your Android device, iOS device and Windows phone, read below.

There are 3 ways to Auto Backup Your Photos to OneDrive from Any Mobile Device:

Automatically Backup Photos to OneDrive on an Android Device:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com/ & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your Android phone from the Play store & launch it.
3. During the initial setup, OneDrive will prompt you to setup your automatic photo & video backups.
4. "Turn on Camera Backup" window opens up.
5. Make sure to select to backup full-resolution photos and videos to OneDrive automatically.
6. Tap "Turn On" button.
7. You have another option to automatically backup Android photos to OneDrive, open "OneDrive app" on your Android phone.
8. Go to "Settings" and tap "Camera upload" icon.
9. Move the slider button next to 'Camera Backup' from left to right to turn it ON. Now anything you add in the camera upload folder on your Android phone will be automatically backup up to OneDrive.

Automatically Backup Photos to OneDrive on an iOS Device:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your iPhone from the Apple App store & launch it.
3. Click "Settings" button on the lower corner of the SkyDrive app window.
4. Select "Camera Backup" option. Your browser prompts you to allow SkyDrive to access your photos, press OK to allow access.
5. Move the slider button next to Camera Backup from left to right to turn it ON.
6. Now anything you add in the Camera Upload folder on your iPhone will be automatically backup up to OneDrive.

Automatically Backup Photos to OneDrive on Windows Phone:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your Windows phone from the Play store & launch it.
3. Open start screen on Windows phone.
4. Go to "Pictures" & tap "..." (3 horizontal dots) located at the bottom right corner on your phone screen.
5. Tap "Settings".
6. "Pictures+Camera" setting window opens up.
7. Tap "Automatically upload to SkyDrive".
8. Click "Yes" to turn ON 'Auto Upload'.
9. All your photos will now be automatically uploaded to SkyDrive.

You can install PicBackMan's SkyDrive uploader for Mac from the website and start backing up photos and videos.

Quick Tip to ensure your Photos never go missing
Photos are precious memories and all of us never want to ever lose them to hard disk crashes or missing drives. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your photos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your photos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. It bulk uploads all photos and keeps looking for new ones and uploads those too. You don't have to ever touch it.