Why Turn on Camera Upload on OneDrive?

Storing photos on mobile phones or computers is a very dangerous thing since your device always faces the risk of being lost, damaged, or stolen. Of course, you don't want important photos and other files to disappear, so backing up files to OneDrive is a good way to protect them.

When it comes to OneDrive, people generally think of it as a cloud storage service for document hosting and sharing. But you can also complete camera upload to OneDrive for protection, and it can bring you the following benefits:

• Backup photos - Enabling camera upload for OneDrive allows you to save all your new photos to the cloud automatically.
• Sync photos to other devices - You can access your OneDrive photos with any Internet-connected device, as long as they are signed in with the same OneDrive account.
• Save storage space on your device - You can remove photos that are uploaded to OneDrive or only keep smaller, compressed photos on your device to free up storage space.

3 Ways to Perform Camera Upload to OneDrive Automatically

Turning on OneDrive camera upload honestly couldn't be any easier. The biggest thing to be aware of is that it may take up a lot of storage space depending on how many pictures you have. If your OneDrive storage is going to be used up, you may meet issues, like OneDrive camera roll not syncing.

Way 1. Auto Upload Photos to OneDrive from Android

If you have enough storage on OneDrive, you can do the following to set up pictures auto upload to OneDrive on Android phones:

Step 1. Download and run the OneDrive mobile app on your Android phone, and sign in with your credential.

Step 2. Click Me and choose Settings.

Step 3. Toggle the switch next to Camera Upload to turn it on, and confirm your change. Then, your photos will be uploaded to OneDrive automatically.

Way 2. Upload Photos to OneDrive from iPhone Automatically

To upload photos to OneDrive from iPhone, you can go with the following guide:

Step 1. Launch the OneDrive application on iPhone.

Step 2. Tap the Profile picture in the top left corner and select Settings.

Step 3. Click on Camera Upload to choose the account you want to enable camera upload. And, you can choose whether or not to upload using mobile network or turn on OneDrive video upload by enabling Include Videos.

Way 3. Photos Upload to OneDrive Automatically on PC using CBackup

The speed of uploading photos to OneDrive is entirely dependent on two things: the size of your pictures and the speed of your Internet. If you want to upload a large number of pictures from your computer, we’d like to recommend you use CBackup.

This is a free cloud backup and sync service that lets you upload data to OneDrive for free. It has no file size and upload speed restrictions, so you could upload large files to OneDrive quickly and effectively.

Below are some advantages of the CBackup software:
❀ You can upload photos, videos, documents, and other kinds of files with daily, weekly, or monthly schedule backups.
❀ You can upload only changed and newly-added items to the cloud, so you could reduce task time and save cloud storage space.
❀ Except for uploading data to OneDrive, this software also allows you to sync photos to Google Drive, Dropbox, and more clouds.
❀ In addition to uploading pictures to OneDrive from computer, you can sync photos on external hard drive to OneDrive as well.

How to upload photos to OneDrive? You can install the CBackup program on your computer, and follow the step-by-step guide as follows:

Step 1. Apply for a CBackup account for free. Run the CBackup desktop client and sign in.

Step 2. Go to the Storage tab, and choose OneDrive. Then, click on Authorize Now to permit CBackup to access your account.

Step 3. Click Sync PC to Public Cloud on the Sync page to create a local sync task.

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If you want to sync files between clouds, like syncing OneDrive to Google Drive or syncing one OneDrive account to another, you could click on the Sync Public Cloud to Public Cloud button to create a cloud sync task.

Step 4. Select the camera photos you want to sync to OneDrive and choose a OneDrive folder as the destination.

Step 5. Click Settings > Scheduler, tick Set a Sync schedule for automated Sync, and specify a wanted scheduled mode to click OK. Then, click Start Sync to begin camera uploads to OneDrive.

How to Increase OneDrive Storage for Photos without Payment

If your camera upload on OneDrive not working due to insufficient storage space, you can merge all your cloud accounts to get a huge, even unlimited upload storage with ease. Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and FTP/SFTP are supported on CBackup.

Step 1. Open CBackup, head to Storage and click + Add Cloud. Select a cloud drive to complete the authorization. You can repeat the step to add all your cloud accounts to it.

Step 2. Click the + New Combined Cloud button.

Step 3. Tick the cloud drives that you wish to merge into one storage space, and click Next.

Step 4. Define the order of the clouds to store files, and tap Combine.

Written in the End

Whether you want to do camera upload to OneDrive from your Android/iPhone or from your computer, you can try the methods above to finish it easily. Considering OneDrive storage can be quickly used up by photos, you can use CBackup to merge OneDrive accounts to increase cloud storage for free.