

On the Settings page, find the option labeled Camera Backup. Here, tap the gear icon to open the OneDrive app Settings page. This will reveal the OneDrive accounts menu. Simply launch the OneDrive app on your iOS device and select the “ hamburger menu” (icon with three lines) in the upper-left part of the screen. This feature is not enabled by default, meaning that those installing the OneDrive app on their iPhones and iPads for the first time will see both their photos and videos uploaded to the service when Automatic Camera Backup is turned on, but it’s easy enough to find and toggle. Thankfully, Microsoft has considered this scenario and offers users an option to ignore videos when performing a OneDrive automatic camera backup, and focus on only photos instead. One solution to this problem is to disable automatic camera backup and simply upload select photos manually, but this destroys the convenience of automatic backup. While even high quality photos only weigh in at a few megabytes each, high definition videos captured by the iPhone can range in size from a few hundred megabytes to dozens of gigabytes, depending on quality settings and length, and many users prefer to directly transfer these videos into their video editors - iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or Premiere - rather than wait hours while they slowly upload to OneDrive.

This makes OneDrive a great place to store backups of your iOS photos, a process that the OneDrive app simplifies via an automatic Camera Backup feature.īut the iPhone is now an excellent video camera in addition to its high quality still photo capabilities, and one of the problems that many users have encountered with OneDrive and other similar services is that they don’t necessarily want their videos to be automatically uploaded for backup.
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Does this sound like something reasonable? If yes, then it seems, that there will be now way to change this.How to Stop OneDrive Camera Backup from Uploading Videos on iOSĪlthough Apple now offers data storage and syncing via iCloud Drive and iCloud Photo Library, Microsoft OneDrive remains one of the best values when it comes to online storage and syncing capacity, with virtually unlimited storage for the price of a yearly Office 365 subscription (which, it should be noted, also nets you the full Office suite on up to five PCs or Macs and a monthly allotment of Skype international calling minutes). I have deleted that obsolete "old" backup, but this caused me to think, if "wako" settings and additional storage bonus in OneDrive does not come from that old "before factory reset" copy of Windows, where I could have photo auto-upload enabled and Camera Roll bonus awarded. Right after that, I have noticed, that my OneDrive keeps (in Device backups section) backups of two different phones - one constantly and recently being updated / refresh and second one, that was updated for the last time in the day, when I performed device factory reset. For the second phone I have just the "basic" plan of 15 GB, while for first one I have a "Camera Roll bonus" in addition and 30 GB total space.Įven though I'm not using this feature (I have Settings > photo+camera > OneDrive > Auto-upload: off and none of the photos are actually auto-uploaded to my OneDrive), I can clearly see " Camera roll bonus" item in my OneDrive's configuration (when accessing OneDrive settings through webpage) and from time to time (I'd say once per 2-3 days) I can clearly see, that OneDrive is recreating folders for Documents and Photos in root of my OneDrive folder (even though I keep deleting them).ĭoes anyone know, why Lumia 535 / OneDrive is recreating these folders, even if auto-upload features are turned off? And is there any way to prevent this behavior?Īdditional info: I've been using this particular OneDrive account for only this Lumia 535 device, but I have made up a total factory reset of the phone.

I have two WP devices (Lumia 535 and Lumia 735), on which I'm using OneDrive.
