Your Phone Make-Over Guide
Have you ever wanted to take that perfect photo but had this error....
What do you do????
I'm going to give you a few easy to follow tips to never see that message again!
It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. DELETE YOUR unwanted photos
You HAVE to delete unwanted photos! Now this can be tricky. The tiny thumbnails make it really hard and swiping through and clicking on the trashcan is really annoying. Here are 2 different things you can do.
#1 Favorite your photos and immediately delete the rest. Do you really need 10 photos of your kid's first day of school? No, you need 1 maybe 2.
*Easy way to do this: What month is it? Go to your photos app and in the top right search for that month. It will pull up ALL of the photos you’ve ever taken for that month for all years. Go through all of those photos and delete the ones you don’t need. This is less intimidating than going through all 16K photos.
#2 Try the app "FLIC". Let's call this the dating app for deleting photos. It has you swipe right or left to trash or keep your photos. The photos appear larger so you can make a better decision. You can do a certain amount per day for free or pay $1.99 for the full version. I love it!
2. clean up and back up
Once you've cleaned off your unwanted photos you need to clean up your storage and back up your phone.
[below] This is my phone's storage when I was having trouble with space. The free space is the light gray on the right. If you see my podcast app was taking up +8GB of space! Do I really need 8GBs of podcasts? I think I'll listen to them, and I want to, but I can always re-download them or listen to them via the cloud. So I deleted all my downloaded podcasts.
You can also click the "enable" button next to the offload unused apps but it'll save your data if you want to use it later.
Next, make sure you back up your phone. I pay for extra iCloud space per month. I've heard really good things about amazon prime photos for backing up photos.
3. print your photos!
You knew it was coming! If you're not seeing your photos WHAT IS THE POINT??? You have good intentions to make scrap books but you won't ever do that when you get more time. Here are some easy options ranked off of my recommendations...
GOOD: Free prints (it started in Midland, Texas!). You get 85 4x6 photos free pre-month but shipping and handling apply ($1.00-9.99)
BETTER: Chat Books. Really easy but not awesome quality. A great way to get your photos printed in a book and into the hands of your kids. They're durable and cheap! I just made a book from summer of our family's 30 favorite photos. Get $5 off your first chatbook with the code "FIVECB"! PRICE: $10+shipping or a subscription service
BETTER (bonus!) Groove Book. Print 40-100 photos in a higher quality album. The covers are really interesting and the pages are perforated so you can encourage sharing, we all need a bit more of that in our lives. PRICE: $3.99/month
BEST: Mpix.com (or app) these products are pro quality. They have albums, prints, and what I really want to highlight is the collage prints You could do so much with this!