You’ve got the perfect photo lined in your sites and so you push the button on your iPhone camera. Instead of a memory etched in pixels, you get a message saying “Cannot take photo. There’s not enough storage.”
An iOS app called IceCream lets you quickly free up space without deleting photos, instead saving them to a secure cloud server with the tap of a button.
Photo: IceCream
IceCream was founded by George Berkowski, author of How to Build a Billion Dollar App. The idea came at the worst time: When the “Cannot take photo” message flashed across his phone while he proposed to his wife.
“I knew I needed to solve this problem,” Berkowski said.
A study by IPSOS MORI reported that millions of people are forced to delete precious photos, videos and apps to make space on their phones. The same study also points out that 75 percent of all smartphones have 16GB or less storage space.
The user can free up space for as many as 5,000 photos. The photos remain with you, however, the full-resolution versions get stored in the IceCream cloud.
The app, which is now available in iTunes, also lets people manage their photos with swipes (a downward swipe deletes a photo). The app sends users an SMS message with a code and the original photos can be reviewed by logging into the Ice Cream website.
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9 responses to “App lets you keep shooting photos when your iPhone is full”
Do people still get this message? Why not use iCloud Photo Library and “Optimize Storage”?
because greedy apple charges $ for storage, first of all. and secondly, it is not a great service.
Greedy users have paid $500 for an iPhone and can’t pay $1 for 50 GB per month for a feature that is native to the OS and doesn’t require a third party app. :/
Why does that make the users greedy? Cloud storage services, Google, Flickr, Box, etc give away hundreds of GB of storage. Apple can surely afford to give 100GB of cloud storage to each person that purchases and iPhone. They give 5GB – weeeeeaaaaak! They don’t have to nickel and dime everything. We pay a premium for the phone/mac/ipad – give a little bit with it.
I agree that 5 GB is way too low, but it’s rare for any company to give away 100 GB of free space indefinitely outside of a promotional sign up offer. Google accounts only come with 15 GB free, and I think that’s a reasonable expectation for Apple to meet.
For the $500, Apple should already include at the very least, the same space of the phone you buy for free.
You see, you gotta pay extra 100 bucks for extra storage on your phone, same here, you pay extra for extra storage in cloud. Plus there’s iCloud on Macs, what you said doesn’t really make sense (to get an equivalent amount of space in cloud). Well, I’m not trying to offend anyone, I’m sorry bro.
By the time photos are uploaded to “free up space” the picture moment is gone!
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