These apps might trick you into finally backing up your photos
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Someday, perhaps soon, youre going to drop your phone in the toilet. Youll be pretty upset when you realize how much its going to cost you to replace it. What might take longer to remember is how many photos, videos, and screenshots you lost. The insane text your cousin sent you when he was high, the selfie you took at Cape Canaveral, the last photo you took of your dog before he passed away: all potentially lost.
The solution is to make sure those photos are backed up somewhere in the cloud, preferably automatically. There are several existing services that can do it, but theyre alternately annoying and complicated and so all too often just dont get used. But two companies think they have found a way to get consumers to actually…