How to Take Control of Your Smartphone's Automatic Photo Uploads?

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There are several cloud storage services available online which offers "Automatic Photo Uploads". If you turn ON Automatic Photo Uploads on your devices, then the every single photo will backed up to the cloud. So choose whether you want to automatically upload photos or not. You have several options to upload photos to different locations i.e Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Google Photos, iCloud and more.

iPhone and iPad have automatic photo upload through iCloud Photo Library. If you enabled iCLoud on your iPhone or iPad, then you can store all the photos you like, as long as you have some free space in iCloud. To do so, open "Settings" app on your device, tap "iCloud" and then tap "Photos". Choose the options to control whether your iPhone or iPad uploads the photos you take to iCloud. If you enabled "iCloud Photo Library (Beta), then you can automatically upload and store your entire library in iCloud to access photos and videos from all your devices. If you enabled "My Photo Stream", then you can automatically upload new photos and send them to all of your iCloud devices when connected to Wi-Fi.

If you are using Android device, then you can automatically upload photos through "Google Photos" app. Google Photos app has a "Auto Backup" feature which allows you to store your photos in Google+ photos i.e Picasa Web Albums. To do so, open "Google Photos" app on your Android phone and tap "Menu" icon. Now tap "Settings" and then tap "Auto Backup". Here use the options to control whether your Android device uploads your photos to your Google+ or Picasa Web Albums account.

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