Uploading Iphone Pictures to OneDrive

 

The Apple iCloud is an impressive tool for backing up iPhone storage. However, it is also a black box in which you cannot edit the content or delete selected content. Fortunately, there is a way to back up your photos to your OneDrive account. In OneDrive, you can organize your backup, prune the files, and share photos from the backup itself--keeping your phone storage clear for more photographic and video memories.

Purpose: These instructions are for adjusting the iPhone settings to back up photos and videos to OneDrive, instead of iCloud.

 

Open the Settings App.
Locate the Photos app in the list of app settings. Click on the Photos app settings.
Turn off the iCloud Photos back up. This will complete the preparation of the Photos app.         NOTE: The My Photo Stream setting may need to be turned off. It may interfere but I have not tested to see if this function of the iCloud is dependent on the iCloud backup.
Adjust the OneDrive Settings
Find the OneDrive app on your iPhone. Click on the app's icon. The app will open.
If you have not already logged into your OneDrive account, you will be prompted to login. You need to open the account settings of your OneDrive app. The account settings icon is on the upper left.  In the pictured example the icon is the "JL" circle by the word "Files.  Click on the icon. The account settings options will slide out over the screen.
This slide page lets you choose which OneDrive account you want to access. The pictured example only has one OneDrive account. Click on the Settings option.
Click on the Camera Upload setting.
Turn on the camera upload for your OneDrive, identified by your outlook email address. Click on Include Videos so camera upload will back up videos and photos together.  NOTES: Use Mobile Network is an option that will your data upload over both wi-fi and cell data transfer. If you leave it off, the camera upload will only happen on wi-fi. Organize New Uploads lets you choose how the camera upload will be organized in the OneDrive pictures folder. This example organizes the uploads by month.
Delete OneDrive Pictures
The camera upload sends all iPhone pictures to the Pictures folder. Open the Pictures folder.
The camera upload sends all iPhone pictures to the Camera Roll folder. Open the Camera Roll folder.
Click on the year you want to manage. Your screen may differ if you used the Organize New Uploads setting to organize in another way than monthly. In the pictured example, I will click on the 2020 folder.
The folders are numbered by month. Click on the numbered folder you want to manage.
Select the pictures and videos you want to delete. Click on the "..." button, on the top right of the interface, to open the management options.           NOTE: If you simply wish to share the pictures, you can share directly from OneDrive. Click the Share button to send the pictures to people with another app.
Click on the Delete button to delete all the selected pictures and videos.
OneDrive wants to confirm you really wish to delete the pictures and videos you selected. Click the red Delete confirmation button. The pictures and videos are now deleted from your back up.       Note: Untested. If the photos and videos are not deleted from your iPhone, then camera upload may upload them again.

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