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[@amandalittlecott]

What are your favourite photo apps? I would love to hear your views...

[@bboomermike2126]

Fast sales video. It tells you what you can do but not how to do it. I learned nothing. I have no idea how to use the app, like how do you get your photos uploaded? Can I choose photo I do not want uploaded? I am completely confused

[@quiverytoast]

Bro it's a review not a tutorial.. 😂

[@thebendu33]

Boy, those vocal fries are pretty intense. But other than that, great video. Super well explained.

[@ptsteln]

Just about to get a new phone after far too long and the new one doesn't have expandable storage so am having to sort through 5 years of pics and videos. I'd already found this app but your video was very helpful, now to watch your other one on organisation :)

[@amandalittlecott]

That is great that you are starting to sort all those photos, I love to hear that. If you are sorting them with a computer as well I would also recommend checking out deduplication tools, they will blow your mind!😁Happy Sorting!

[@michaelmalone3]

HI, Amanda... Is there any way to edit the name of a photo once it's in Amazon Photo and if so!!! how? thank you!

[@thenewmanfiles3269]

has anyone figured out how to get Amz Photos to act, look, and feel like Amz drive? I find Amz Photos not easy to navigate. I feel like everything is scattered. Could be me though🤪

[@robertburns3097]

Looks like another money trap

[@achandra10]

Once you reach your 5 Gb storage on videos will it stop backing the videos until you pay, or will it continue to back up and start to change? 2. Just like backing out photos to Amazon, can I transfer or back them back from Amazon to my I phone if needed.

[@amandalittlecott]

Once you reach your video limit it will just stop syncing the videos. When you log on you will it will warn you that you have reached your limit, it doesn't just start charging you so if you just want to use it for Photos you are all good. 😁

[@achandra10]

@@amandalittlecott thank you so much for replying back. I might just use it for photos since it’s free. I like the fact that my photos don’t delete if I delete them on my phone.

[@amandalittlecott]

@@achandra10 it is great for that and not to difficult to download them out if you use the desktop app, so a bonus there! Happy to help! 😁

[@loribranson8366]

If I don’t have a computer can I still use the Amazon Photo? My phone is full of photos and videos. Can I still send them to be stored? And is there a way I can download them from Amazon Phone to a flash drive??? Thank You for your time

[@amandalittlecott]

So yes you can get them to auto-save from your phone to Amazon photos and they will be a proper backup in Amazon photos safe and sound. But remember if you are a big video taker you will have to pay for additional video storage. As for downloading without a computer, it is possible but you will have to be very patient. You can select the photos and use the share option to share them with a USB that you can get to plug directly into your phone (check out some of the photo-specific ones out there) or you can use a Hard drive with its own Wifi connection (but they can be a bit pricey). It would be sooooo much easier with a computer, sorry! 😁

[@jennyjohnson2880]

Great video. Is there a way to set up your desktop to automatically load photos you have on your desktop to amazon photos?

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes you can, check out the Amazon Desktop App, use the Backup section and point it towards your folder and it will look for changes and back it up! 😁

[@ScottCohen-f9w]

Did you just say member shit

[@tonykeltsflorida]

Amazon photos is a good start for photo storage. You should also backup ypur photos to an external SSD drive.

[@amandalittlecott]

Oh yes that is very true, if you check out some of my other videos you will see I talk about it ALOT (sorry if you get bored with me talking about it!) 😃

[@tonykeltsflorida]

@@amandalittlecott It really doesn't get talked about enough.

[@amandalittlecott]

@@tonykeltsflorida I will keep harping on about it then! 😁

[@tonykeltsflorida]

@N M Wow, yes, a couple of backups is always good.

[@amandalittlecott]

@N M Yup defo go for the 3,2,1 back up approach, 3 copies, 2 formats, 1 offsite... it will cover you off really well 😁

[@katymacdonald7813]

It's only 5GB free storage. Not unlimited.

[@amandalittlecott]

As I say you need to be a Prime member to be unlimited and then that is only photo storage, video is limited to 5GB. 😁

[@ScottCohen-f9w]

W rizz

[@charlesharris4021]

You talk a little too fast

[@cjpearlman]

I've researched Apple Photos, Google Photos and now I'm looking at Amazon Photos (thanks Amanda!) but the key feature I want is the ability to add key words to a photo for searching purposes by others I share the others with (e.g. "Aunt Sally"). Amazon drive sort-of works since you can construct a file name but now I see Drive is going away. Apple Photos truly has a keywords field for each photo, EXCEPT it isn't supported for Shared Albums (Grrrr!). Any thoughts?

[@SridharKatakam]

Not possible from what I see. I don't understand how such a big company as Amazon does not get what users want.

[@ndoki0459]

Thanks for the video on Amazon Photos. I have uploaded photos to this program and it works well. The exception is DNG files that are created from Adobe Lightroom from Nikon native files. Why are the photos not shown? The requirements page clearly notes that DNG files are acceptable. Please advise.

[@amandalittlecott]

Hey Christopher, yes they shouldn't be a problem... but let me do some testing to see if I can work out why. One question, what is the file size you are trying to load up and is there anything special about them, like a panorama?

[@tomkimroniger6916]

anyone know how to get photos stored in amazon to snapfish?

[@amandalittlecott]

There is no direct link from Amazon Photos to Snapfish (like there is for Facebook or Instagram) the best way is to download to your computer and upload them from there. Check out the Amazon section in this video on how to download from Amazon Photos kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmPcqaagfLGbpac

[@byrw9557]

I am looking at my Amazon prime photos now and it is saying that photos is unlimited. It says that videos are limited to 5 gigabytes for free. Wish Amazon would let you put docs on here, too.

[@silviac4408]

Are you the only one that can see these photos? Is it private

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes, unless you decide to share with anyone, but also anyone with your Amazon login will be able to access the photos too. 😁

[@GrumpyGarry121]

Just uploading now to Amazon photo, have a couple of questions if you don’t mind. You say it does not sync, that means if I want to delete a photo I have to do it once on the phone and once on Amazon? That would make Amazon a great photo dump but if you where to use it as a source could be a pain trolling through thousands of unsorted photos. Also I uploaded from my iPad and phone separately. Most of the photos are the same, will they be duplicated, I didn’t rename them so they have the same file name or will Amazon just /2 them? Thanks for any reply and very good informative video

[@amandalittlecott]

So the sync is that yes it does it one way from your Phone to Amazon, so if you delete a photo on your phone it stays in Amazon photos (unlike Apple Photos for example so the theory is that it is more secure from accidental deleting) so if you are auto uploading you will get everything going up. If you are on an Android phone you can control what is uploaded to just one folder so you put the photos you want to load and it only looks at that folder. For Apple, the option is to manually upload and select what you want to go up, which is not exactly perfect. As for duplicates, it checks to see if the photo already exists before it tries to load it up, so you should be safe there. Sorry, it is not all good news! 🙃

[@GrumpyGarry121]

@@amandalittlecott ahh thanks for the great reply. I am using Amazon photos on my Amazon echo shows, looks like I’ll have to sort them into folders.

[@amandalittlecott]

@@GrumpyGarry121 you are very welcome and OOOO nice option for your photos and I would definitely be in favour of some folders... I love a bit of organisation! 😁

[@colinohare]

Amazon Drive App Unavailable. I can't find Amazon Desktop Photo's App it just shows devices.

[@amandalittlecott]

Sadly yes Amazon Drive has been discontinued ☹ It was one of my favourite features of Amazon Photos. I am going to make an updated video to reflect this sad change 🙃

[@marielynn5234]

The Amazon photo would not open up on my phone. Its just black! So no good!

[@amandalittlecott]

Hmmm that is an interesting one, I have not heard of that before, do you have Amazon Prime or could it be a region thing?? 🙃

[@marielynn5234]

@amandalittlecott I have prime. But they still want to charge once you have certain storage amounts I have more than 3000 photos lol

[@amandalittlecott]

Photo storage is unlimited as long as you have Prime membership. I would check how many videos you are loading up

[@tinaferguson6175]

How do I load my photos?

[@amandalittlecott]

Depends where they are, if they are on your phone download the app and set up auto backup. If they are on your computer use the desktop app. 😊

[@futuretech9134]

I have multiple members in Amazon prime so can everyone see it if i upload on Amazon photo.. please i reply i need to know this

[@amandalittlecott]

Do you mean you have multiple Amazon Accounts or multiple people using your account? Others will only see your photos if you either share with them specifically or they are using your account. By loading to Amazon photos you are not sharing with the world, if that is what you mean... let me know and I can confirm exactly the situation. 🙂

[@davidgreen7645]

I have Amazon photos on my iMac, iPad and iPhone but each device shows a different number of items in backed up, why is this?

[@amandalittlecott]

That is a bit odd, I would check the settings to see if videos are backing-up on each device. Also are all the devices synced to Apple photos as on Apple devices it will just look at Apple Photos and back-up that up, unlike on Android where you can choose what to back-up.🙂

[@joechodash9383]

Getting started with Amazon photos - thanks for the great intro. Not sure why, but "people recognition" is not available in my area.

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes it depends on where you are in the world, even different states in the US can be different. It all depends on your privacy laws! 🙃

[@charlybtube]

Thank you Amanda for your great review! 👌🏾Now, I'm going to compare it with Google Photos...🙂

[@amandalittlecott]

Always good to check out all the options first, here is my little video on Google Photos that hopefully will help 😁

[@denisepettke-price9913]

I don't want the family members I share my password/Prime with too have access to my photos. If there's no way to keep mine separate and viewable by only me, then it's useless.

[@amandalittlecott]

Unfortunately there is no way of restricting access to your photos if they have your password, as they assume if you have the login you would want to see the photos. Sorry.

[@honkhonk1555]

Is it possible to take photos from Amazon’s cloud service, and easily copy them to my windows PC hard drive if I so choose? Thanks in advance.

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes totally, you just need to download them. Check out my video on how to download from all your favourite photo apps and just use the chapters to get straight to the Amazon part kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmPcqaagfLGbpac 😁

[@sozonpv]

Can you prevent videos from uploading from iPhone when first getting started?

[@amandalittlecott]

Unfortunately not on the iPhone you can't control what goes up to Amazon Photos it just takes everything from your Apple Photos, sorry! 🙂

[@doloresseames5067]

Amazon drive is no longer being supported, so can no longer use it.

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes if you look down through the comments you can see how sad I am about it. An updated video is on the way, with a sad news included about Amazon Drive 😐

[@Demoncontrol1]

how do you upload pics to specific albums? I have manually uploaded but then I don't know where the pics are or how I add them to albums - Please HELP

[@amandalittlecott]

Hey, to load specific photos to albums you first need to load them into the photos vault. Then you can create an album for them to go into. However to make it easier I would do this on the online version rather than your phone as then you can use the filters on the left hand side to filter your photos to add them to albums. Unfortunately, Amazon photos doesn't have the function where you can load photos directly up into albums sorry!

[@TAnn2G]

Video storage is at 5GB and I'd like to review all of my videos and then delete. How do I do do this?

[@amandalittlecott]

On the app and online you can filter by video, so just select that and you will just see your videos, ready to delete!

[@Benjamin_wong2024]

good

[@chantalalook2626]

When you upload all your photos to Amazon photos are your photons private? Will anyone else see them?

[@amandalittlecott]

Yes they are private as long as they don't have your login to Amazon. You are not loading them up to share with the world! 😀

[@ciprianadrian2123]

Can you upgrade Amazon Photos without having a prime account?

[@amandalittlecott]

Unfortunately, I have not found a way to do that. It might be worth checking out Google Photos if you want a non Apple photos app!

[@alfaromeo6985]

How many hours of video can you store on Amazon Prime?

[@amandalittlecott]

The limits are 20 minutes for the length of a video and 2GB of size per video, but worth a try now that Amazon Drive is no more! Obviously as for the total amount, it is all down to how much you are willing to pay extra for! 🙃

[@jamestucker8088]

Great video! The only thing more that whould be good is to compare and contrast with Google photos.

[@amandalittlecott]

Ah well if that is what you want then check out this video where are talk you through all your cloud options.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnWooamqh6aDo7M. 😁

[@Slic-Rock]

Hello Amanda do you have a video how to backup Amazon Photos on your personal WDCloud OS5? If I pass always I don't want to lose all my pictures! My WD Drive can be given to my family!

[@amandalittlecott]

Sorry I don't have one yet, but I will add it to the list. In the meantime, check out the desktop app you can download and backup from there. 😁

[@Slic-Rock]

Thank you is the Desktop App Android, Apple or Windows?

[@amandalittlecott]

@@Slic-Rock the desktop works on any computer, so both Apple and Windows, just download the right version and you are all good!😁

[@ryanholt3036]

When I delete a phone says it goes to the trash but how do you find the trash folder I use the app only

[@amandalittlecott]

Hey, unfortunately the only way to access the trash is to go to a web browser version, annoying I know!

[@sheltonsmith7018]

Hello. I'm trying to share my videos, but it is creating a link instead. Why won't it just share or send the video?

[@amandalittlecott]

Hey, for Amazon Photos you have the link, email or Facebook that you have found, but you can also share via the Family Vault, up to 5 people can join your Family Vault and you can add videos and photos into the vault for others to see. I hope that solves your problem! 😁

[@honkhonk1555]

@@amandalittlecott can I also copy them to my windows PC hard drive?

[@ndoki0459]

Are DNG files that are converted in Adobe Lightroom from Nikon NEF files available to see in Amazon Photos?

[@zebunker]

LOL. No. Don't support amazon if you care about the lives of American workers.

[@modusbee9092]

Mine has been downloading photos from my phone for last 2 hours. I only wanted to pick a few photos to print. I have no idea what is going on with this app. It's even downloading my videos. Will I be charged?

[@amandalittlecott]

Oh man that is annoying, are you using the app on your phone or the web page? It might be worth checking out the desktop to download your photos if you are having trouble with the phone or web page. You should not be charged by Amazon but if you are using data you may need to make sure it is not using your phone data to download your images. You could get a nasty phone bill! 🙂

[@modusbee9092]

@Amanda Littlecott: The Photo Organiser oh my. Thanks for responding. Hopefully I don't a nasty bill or I'll cry.

[@amandalittlecott]

@@modusbee9092 You are very welcome! I hope not! Fingers crossed! 🤞

[@theescaperoom7823]

Love your accent.

[@amandalittlecott]

You are not the first to say that... but what accent 😂

[@thenewmanfiles3269]

amazon drive is going away end of this year :(.

[@amandalittlecott]

I know, it makes me sooooo sad it was the best feature for Amazon Photos. 🥲

[@thenewmanfiles3269]

@@amandalittlecott hoping they reconsider. Looking at other alternatives such as iDrive or Google One, but both have their cons.

[@amandalittlecott]

@@thenewmanfiles3269 me too, but I suspect not 😔

[@ddosay]

Amazon Photos, however, is not going away. Just drive. Any photos backed up to drive will automatically be moved to Amazon Photos. Unlimited photo storage remains for Prime members, and at full resolution. Videos = only 5GB. (I back my videos up elsewhere.)

[@amandalittlecott]

@@ddosay yes true, I am still a fan of Amazon Photos as it is still a great tool, I am just also a fan of folders, I like the control they give me. 😁

[@TA-op3vn]

How can I share photos with people that don't have Amazon ?

[@amandalittlecott]

You can click on any photos and hit the share button (on the web it actually says share, on the app it looks like 3 dots in a triangle) then you can share as a link or send. To share in the Family Vault you can invite anyone but they then have to create an amazon account with photos. 😁