Store Your Pictures in the Cloud, Too
Your pictures are probably one of the most important things you have on your iPhone. After all, most of them are memories of you with your family and friends, so you probably don’t want to lose that.
Note that your photos and videos will be included in your iCloud Backups made in the previous step — whether that’s to your normal iCloud storage of the temporary transfer storage Apple gives you — but if you want to be able to access them more easily and sync them with your other devices, it’s better to enable iCloud Photos — as long as you have the storage space, of course.
To make sure you’re uploading your pics (and vids) to iCloud, you need to do the following:
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to your Apple ID.
- Select iCloud.
- Tap on Photos right under Apps Using iCloud.
- Select Sync this iPhone.
If you don’t want to use iCloud, you can still back up your photos on your Mac. All you need to do is connect your iPhone to your Mac with a USB cable and then open the Photos app (or Image Capture) on your Mac. You should see an import screen that will let you copy all your pictures to your Mac.