Thank you.

But you could always test it before making any time commitment to it.

One in the device, one on a back drive or stick, and one offsite like in a bank safe deposit box or in the cloud (if you must). It's a good idea to rotate backups on a semi-regular basis to keep them up to date.

Especially important for photos. The thing everyone grabs first if they have 15 minutes to bug out of the home due to impending disaster.

Snap photos of all important documents in good lighting so that they are clear and readable. Then give them the same 3 copy treatment.

Editing them and ESPECIALLY, sorting, filing and renaming them are a ZILLION percent easier on the computer.

Not to mention the “infinitely” larger screen to actually view the photos.

Photo management on phones is a very sick joke, especially with the limited memory, so whatever good things you do are undone when space fills up, either by the photos, or apps, or email or messages or other data. And it’s the world’s most expensive memory!

I don’t trust any online services. They come and go, they raise prices, use your photos to train their AI and surveil you for ads, and so on. I just copy to the computer, and back up the computer.

Everything you said in this post and if you want to back up entirely to your computer you can do that without even connecting with a cord now. Do that through iTunes with the icon up at the top.

However a lot of my photos are not worth my own hard drive space. They are just captures that may or may not be needed later. I like to take off the ones I’m certain I’ll want and then later on, delete the iffy stuff off the. Amazon site.

I am always showing photos to people so I like the instant access and organizational capabilities of having them at Amazon.

Trying to do this stuff on a phone (sizing, light adjustment), though, is sheer, unmitigated hell.

I love to store stuff on the computer. A terabyte solid state drive is about $70.

The best "show off" photos go on a big iPad Pro, which I use mainly for music scores ( replaces many pounds of paper) and showing off the photos. Easy transfer. Air drop. Even SD card, with adapter, whatever.

Given that showing off wants the big screen, this works great.

Now that we have reached the "Everything online and cheapened by AI" event horizon, being present with my squirreled away photos has great meaning.

My thought processes are always a few years ahead, causing people to wonder about me, but I am certain that ideas I wrote down 10 or more years ago are going to get life this year.

Food, and internet "phenomena" spoil over time.