Dropbox is a cloud storage service which helps you to backup photos, videos & files from your computer and mobile devices to an online storage space. Cloud backup serves as an offline backup and is accessible from anywhere in the world (all you need is an internet connection).
Here are the steps to download photos from Dropbox to iPhone:
- Go to https://www.dropbox.com/ & sign in to your account.
- If you have Dropbox app installed on your iPhone, launch it. Or else download it from the App store.
- Click "Data Settings" on iPhone, select "Dropbox" option.
- A pop-up window opens up. You will see a "Public" icon on menu bar. The "Public" folder contains all your stored photos & videos.
- Select photos (which you wish to download) from "Public" folder. You will see a star (*) icon located at the upper-right corner of the window. Click "*".
- Click "Download" button located at the upper-right corner of the window.
- Click "Save to Photo Library" option.
- The photos will be stored in your iPhone's gallery.
Quick Tip to Keep your Photos Safe
Making backups of your photos & videos is a chore you probably skip, but it really doesn't have to be hard. Here's an effortless way to backup photos - PicBackMan. 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.You can install PicBackMan's Dropbox uploader for Mac from the website and start backing up photos and videos.