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I’m lost. How can I save my data using just my iPhone?

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  1. That’s pretty much not going to happen. There’s too much of it.

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  2. You can do a takeout and let Google store the data in Google Drive. As long as they don't kill Drive, your data is saved there for later use (import, recycling, searching, whatever)

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  3. Jürgen Christoffel
    I recognise all those words to be English, and I see no terrible grammatical error, but that made no sense to me, sorry. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

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  4. Klara G Your options are fairly limited.

    What do you want to do with the data? Are you planning on using it personally, or republishing it elsewhere?

    What does it consist of? Texts? Photos? Other materials?

    How big is it? Keep in mind that Google's Data Takeout is presently *very oversized, with images especially stored multiple times.

    Can you access other tools or devices? A phone offers very limited capabilities.


    Your best bets would be to create a small archive (<2 GB) which you can store indefinitely on Google Drive, until you determine where else you intend to use it. Other options are for third-party services (probably a blog, possibly another social platform) to develop import tools which can directly access your Google profile and data.

    Otherwise, I'd need some more guidance from you answering the questions above.

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  5. You need a computer to do computing - not a phone which is in the end designed to talk with people.

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  6. Kerem Go smartphones are not in the slightest designed to talk with people. The phone is just an app on the computing devices‘ home screen. But it’s a small, portable computing device, and so it’s not optimized for working with very large data sets.

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  7. Jasper Janssen You'd be surprised at what can be accomplished with Termux or other Linux builds on Android. Meantime, Apple offers iOS devices with up to 1 TB storage. The hardware itself is reasonably capable. It'ss the OS that gets in the way.

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  8. Edward Morbius once you’re running a root terminal straight into the Linux underlying android, you’re basically no longer using android, as such. Just as you’re not when you run a root terminal straight into the BSD underlying iOS.

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