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.
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).
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