If you often take photos on your iPhone, it’s a good idea to configure iPhone to automatically backup photos to Windows 10 PC. You can automatically backup iPhone photos to Windows 10 PC by using Microsoft OneDrive service. Here is how to use OneDrive to automatically backup iPhone photos to Windows 10 PC. Step 1: Install OneDrive app on your iPhone from the iTunes store.
Step 2: Open the OneDrive app on your iPhone. Sign in with the same Microsoft account which you are using on your Windows 10 PC. If you don’t have one, read our how to create a Microsoft account guide. Step 4: Turn on Camera Upload. When you see “OneDrive would like to access your photos” message, tap OK button to allow the access.
If you see “OneDrive would like to send push notifications” message, you may tap OK or Don’t allow. By default, OneDrive automatically uploads photos to the cloud account only when your iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. It doesn’t upload while on the mobile network. Camera Upload) and we recommend you enable Use mobile network option, especially if you don’t get a chance to connect your iPhone to a Wi-Fi network once in a few days or if you don’t have data restrictions.
Also, if you don’t want to automatically backup videos, you can turn it off there. We recommend you turn on Upload in Background option so that the app can automatically upload photos when you change the location. Finally, to check the upload progress, tap the Photos button. Step 5: On your Windows 10 PC, make sure that you have signed into your OneDrive account.
To sign in, double-click on the OneDrive icon (cloud icon) icon in the notification area of the taskbar. Enter your Microsoft account email address and then type the password. Follow the simple on-screen instructions to complete the setup. During the setup, when you see the following screen, make sure that the Pictures folder is selected. From now onwards, all photos on your iPhone will be automatically backed up to your Windows 10 PC.
Time Machine backups are stored in a shared folder on the network with no password protection (encryption wasn't available), which means your backups are accessible on any computer that is connected to your home Wi-Fi -- not just your own. That's fine if you're the sole user of your Wi-Fi network, but it's not always ideal when you have multiple people in the home or when guests are visiting.
This may not be an issue for some users, though, and according to Western Digital, it's built this way to allow users to back up all computers connected to the network with the content stored in a single place. As for Time Machine backups themselves, it obviously takes a long time to do a backup over a Wi-Fi connection.
I had to leave mine on overnight and it did fail a several times before it managed to complete a backup. I also thought Western Digital's documentation in general for the My Cloud Home was poor. For Time Machine backups, as an example, it basically just redirects to Apple's own support document.
A device like this needs better support and documentation for users. I had some other complaints about the Mac app. There was an update during the course of my testing and it instructed me to download an update, but gave no indication of what was new. Then it sent me an email letting me know an update had been installed, again with no information.
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