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How to Back Up iPod Photos?

Photos on our iPod play an important role in  keeping track of all important moment in our lifetime like friends’ and family’s reunion, baby’s birth, etc. Those are irreplaceable memory.

However, issues will happen, you may lose photos on your iPod due to various reasons such as device lost/damage/crash, iOS upgrade failure, iOS jailbreak, restore factory settings or delete the photos accidently.

So it is very critical to back up those important iPod photos before something goes wrong.

Now, let’s follow below guide.




Solution 1. Backup iPod Photos with iCloud

As for Apple fans, the iCloud will be their first choice.

iCloud will run in the background and can automatically make a copy of iPhone photos as they are taken.

Step 1. Turn on iCloud photo backups.

Just go to Settings -> iCloud -> Photos and tap iCloud Photo Library. Also, You can turn on My Photo Stream to automatically upload new pictures. Photos will be synced to the Photo Stream when the device is connected to Wi-Fi.


backup iPod via iCloud

Note: please make sure the space for your photos and videos doesn't exceed the 5GB limit. Otherwise, you may need to increase capacity by signing up for a monthly plan.  iCloud pricing starts at $0.99 per month for 20GB storage space.

Solution 2. Backup iPod Photos with Dropbox

Dropbox is a well-known cloud storage for all kinds of files, which allows you to upload your favorite video, photos and so on to it.


backup iPod via DropBox

Also, it offers 2GB free space.

Normally, the 2GB free storage isn’t much, while additional storage space can be earned for free through referrals and other activities, such as you can get more 250MB storage space via completing the Getting Started tutorial . And you can also choose to purchase the space starting at $9.99 for 1TB.

Now, we will find that the Dropbox isn’t perfect, especially given the limited free data.

Let’s check another totally free solution on how to backup iPod Photos via Free Appandora  iPod Photo Backup.

Solution 3. Backup iPod Photos via Appandora Free iPod Photo Backup

Step 1. Download and install Appandora iPod Backup to your computer.

Note: Please make sure that iTunes has been already installed on your computer for running this free Appandora iPod Backup correctly. But you do not have to operate iTunes.

Step 2. Connect your iPod to computer with USB cable and launch Appandora iPod Backup.

Step 3.Go to the left panel of Appandora iPad Photos Backup, press Photos tab, select the images you want to copy, click Export button. Now, all selected photos are allowed to back up from iPod to PC with this Appandora iPod Photo Backup.


backup ipod photo to computer

Supported image format: JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIF, TIFF

From above-mentioned methods, it is not hard to find that Appandora Free iPod Photo Backup will be the best choice, no space limit, no any charge.

Besides, Appandora can also back up aother important information on iPod like SMS, contacts, Apps, Call history etc.

Other utilities for Appandora iPod Photo Backup you could not miss:

  • Sync iPad, iPhone and even multiple iOS devices simultaneously;
  • Transfer files from PC to iPad/iPhone/iPod within seconds;
  • Copy and backup iDevice files to your computer;
  • Manage movie, music, TV show, ebook, contacts and more;
  • Free & Unlimited Video, Wallpaper and Ringtone Resources.
  • Share files between different iOS devices
  • Detect device info and media info intelligently.



Syncios box

Syncios is a free yet powerful iPod/iPhone/iPad/Android to PC transfer software that enables you transfer Messages, Call logs, Contacts, App, Music, Photo, Video, Ebook between PC and your iPod/iPhone/iPad/Android devices. Besides this, you can also get unlimited wallpaper and ringtons on iPhone/iPad/iPod by Syncios Mobile Manager.