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Adding photos from my iPhone. Backup vs uploading

I am trying to add all my photos from my iPhone 16 to Dropbox in order to delete them off of my phone.

if I only use the backup feature can I do the above?

Or do I have to upload each photo where I have to click each photo and it only allows 400 at a time?

can you explain the difference like I’m 2 please. Because in my mind the way i understand is you’re suppose to use the backup feature for new photos so it saves going forward but if I put for all photos (since I’m new here) it should save them all. And the upload is like a second option

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Walter

Hey @Mmeganelizabeth - thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to our Community!

When you say backup, I'm assuming that you're referring to the automatic camera uploads feature?

If you're not familiar with this feature, could you have a look at this Help Center article and let me know if that would do the trick for you?

Thanks!

iar

Hi@"Mmeganelizabeth", engineer on the Dropbox iOS photos team here!

Camera Uploads is definitely the way to go. There’s a setting to backup either new or all photos, and it’ll grab everything in your photo library (or selected albums) so you can safely remove them from your phone.

Camera Uploads (CU) backs up your photos to a dedicated Camera Uploads folder in your Dropbox account. Manual Upload (MU—how we refer to selecting individual files or photos to upload) allows you to choose where the uploads wind up, but this pathway isn't as robust as CU, which will automatically retry uploads in the background and handle variable network conditions more effectively.

Hope this helps! Feel free to let us know if you've got any more questions.

-iar