Why Save Photos from Flickr on iPhone?

How to Save Photos from Flickr on iPhone
How to Save Photos from Flickr on iPhone

There are several reasons why saving photos from Flickr to your iPhone:

  • Offline Access: Saving Flickr photos to your iPhone can help you access photos without an Internet connection. This feature comes in handy when traveling or finding yourself in areas with limited Internet connectivity.
  • Backup: When you save images from Flickr to your iPhone, you are creating a second backup in case anything happens to the online copy or even your Flickr account itself.
  • Editing Flexibility: Since these photos are at hand on your iPhone, it is easy for you to edit them using the iPhone’s built-in editing tools or third-party apps without downloading them afresh each time you want to work on them.
  • Sharing: Saved photos can be quickly shared via iMessage, social media platforms, or email directly from your device.
  • Faster Access: Instead of going back and forth between visiting Flickr just so as to see certain images over and over again or download a particular picture repeatedly, keeping it locally helps in terms speed up the process of viewing and applying it.

It is necessary to learn how to download photos from Flickr to iPhone since this can help you avoid data loss and make photo sharing and editing easier. In the next part, you can see the steps on how to make it.

How to Save Photos from Flickr on iPhone Commonly

It is quite easy to download photos from Flickr to your iPhone. But there is one thing that needs to be noticed: you can only download one photo to your iPhone at once. Therefore, if you have multiple photos to download, it may cost much time. Before downloading, make sure your iPhone has enough storage and it is connected to a stable network.

Step 1. Search the Flickr app in the App Store and download it to your iPhone.

Step 2. Open Flickr on your iPhone and log in to the account.

Step 3. Select the photo that you want to download and click the share icon (an upward arrow).

Step 4. Choose “Save Photo” or “Save Image” in the menu and this photo will be saved in your camera roll. This is how to download pictures from Flickr on phone.

How to Save Photos from Flickr on iPhone through iCloud Photos

If you previously used Flickr to save photos but now prefer iCloud Photos, you can use MultCloud to directly transfer photos from Flickr to iCloud Photos instead of downloading them to your iPhone. Or, if you enable iCloud Photos sync on your iPhone, photos transferred from Flickr to iCloud Photos can be also saved to your iPhone automatically. Anyway, using MultCloud to create a Flickr-to-iCloud Photos task is a good choice.

MultCloud
MultCloud

MultCloud is a professional cloud-to-cloud transfer service and Cloud Transfer is one of its functions that is specially designed for file transfer. Cloud Transfer can help you forget the traditional downloading and re-uploading way but easily create an automatic transfer task. Besides, it offers you multiple options to customize your task.

  • Multiple Cloud Options: MultCloud supports 30+ cloud storage services, such as Flickr, iCloud Photos, Google Photos, Dropbox, OneDrive, MEGA, pCloud, etc. You can choose your desired source and target clouds to create the transfer task.
  • Task Scheduling: If you plan to use Flickr and iCloud Photos together and want to transfer photos regularly, you can schedule the task at a fixed daily/weekly/monthly frequency.
  • File Filter: If there are some photos you do not want to transfer to iCloud Photos, you can choose these photos or your desired photos by entering their file extensions in “Filter”.
  • Transfer All Photos at Once: Cloud Transfer allows you to transfer all the photos from Flickr to iCloud Photos in one task. This helps save a lot of time and energy.
  • Delete Photos after Task is Done: If you decide to unsubscribe from the Flickr paid storage, you can choose to auto-remove the transferred photos from Flickr after the task is completed.

The operations of using Cloud Transfer to move photos from Flickr to iCloud Photos are easy.

Step 1. Enter the MultCloud website and register an account for free.

Step 2. Add Flickr to MultCloud by clicking “Add Cloud” and the Flickr logo. Then, add iCloud Photos to MultCloud with the same operations, but this time you will go through the two-factor authentication.

Add Flickr and iCloud Photos to MultCloud
Add Flickr and iCloud Photos to MultCloud

Step 3. Select “Cloud Transfer” and choose Flickr in the left box and iCloud Photos in the right box. Then, open “Options” to check the transfer settings and tap “Transfer Now” to start this task.

How to Save a Photo from Flickr on iPhone via iCloud Photos
How to Save a Photo from Flickr on iPhone via iCloud Photos

Bonus Tip: How to Download Photos from Flickr Without an Account

If you want to share a Flickr photo with others and let them download it without an account, you can also use MultCloud. But this time you will use MultCloud Cloud Share.

Step 1. Sign up for a MultCloud account.

Step 2. Add Flickr to MultCloud and open it.

Step 3. Select the photo you want to share and choose “Share” in the upper bar. Then, choose “Share with MultCloud”.

Step 4. When the share options window pops up, you can choose “Public Share” or “Private Share”. The difference is that “Private Share” requires recipients to enter the password before accessing the photo. Finally, copy the shared link and send it to others.

Download Shared Album from Flickr Without an Account
Download Shared Album from Flickr Without an Account

Conclusion

The steps for how to save photos from Flickr on iPhone are shown above, you can follow the steps to easily download Flickr photos to your iPhone. Besides, if you plan to save photos from Flickr to iCloud Photos, MultCloud Cloud Transfer deserves trying. It can automatically transfer photos without downloading and gives you various options to personalize the task.

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