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Guide
A simple backup routine so a clean-up never costs you a memory.
Deleting is final in a way that most things on a phone are not. A good clean-up should only remove pictures you are happy to lose, but mistakes happen: a keeper in the wrong group, a tap in the wrong place. A backup turns a mistake into a minor inconvenience.
A sensible habit is to keep photos you care about in at least two places, such as the phone and one more location. That second place could be a cloud photo service, a computer, or an external drive. The point is that losing or breaking the phone does not lose the pictures.
Turning on automatic backup is not the same as having a backup. Open your photo service on a computer or another device and confirm that recent pictures and videos are really there. This takes a minute and is the step most people skip.
Our cleaner gives you a cleaned copy of your photos as a download, along with a checklist of what to remove from your phone. That means the original library stays untouched until you decide to delete. Save the cleaned copy somewhere safe, then work through the checklist at your own pace.
Confirm the backup contains your recent photos. Keep the cleaned download until you are sure you are happy. Delete in small batches rather than all at once. Finally, empty the recently-deleted area so the space is released, but only when you are certain.
It is free, it runs in your browser, and nothing you choose is uploaded.
Not always. A sync can mirror a deletion to every device. A backup keeps a separate copy, so check how your service treats deleted items.
Keep it until you are certain you are happy with your phone’s library, then you can remove it to save space on your computer too.