Picture hoarder
The other day my wife was attempting to update her phone (iPhone) and it would not let her. After some investigation she had over 200GB of photos and no room for anything else. I have been attempting to cull her phone of these pictures but she refuses to lose a single photo from her device. My first attempt started with a google photo transfer but doesn’t keep the app in the background and the photos never end up transferring (or transfer so slowly it’s not helpful). Today, I tried transferring them all to an external hard drive but something keeps giving an error and will not let me move them all (only lets me move ~5,000/17,000.
My next attempt was to set up iCloud plus for one month, move the photos from her iCloud to the hard drive, then cancel it.
Does anyone know of an easier option? I’m terrified I may lose some of her pictures.