Instagram is rolling out a new feature that should help you manage your content. From now on, your deleted posts will be saved for a while so that you can restore them. This is useful in case your change your mind, or if your account gets hacked and the hackers delete your content.
Why you should delete photos to remember precious moments
We all love taking photos. After all, that’s what brought us together here on DIYP, right? Photographing important moments makes us keep them remember them forever. But Caleb from Gulf Photo Plus challenges you to delete your photos to remember your precious moments. Wait, what? That’s right, you should delete photos to remember better, and Caleb will tell you why.
iPhone X bug lets hackers steal deleted photos from your phone
For one reason or the other, all of us delete plenty of photos from our phones while choosing the keepers. If you have an iPhone X, your “deleted” images are not entirely gone. As a result – they may be accessible to hackers. Two researchers have recently found a vulnerability that could let hackers access your images, even if you previously deleted them.
The latest Windows 10 update could delete your photos, make sure to backup your files
Windows 10 October 2018 Update started to roll out last week, but some users immediately reported that their documents were being deleted. There have been multiple complaints that the latest update has deleted documents, and this includes pictures, music, and videos among other things.
Delete your old work to declutter your life
I have a problem. I am overly attached to my old work. Work that no longer serves a purpose, but I feel attached to somehow.
When I look at my hard drives, my cloud storage, etc — I feel like I am a digital hoarder. I hold onto too many images.
What is the problem in today’s world? The fact is that we are over-saturated with information. With bits and bytes, it is easy to have “unlimited storage” (whereas with physical storage, there tends to be a limit).
I’ve been trying to take a more “zen” approach to life— and trying to live lightly. I try to pare down my belonging to the absolute essentials, and try my best to get rid of things that are superfluous in my life.
However I haven’t really listened to my own advice when it comes to digital things. I have too many files that are backed up (even though I know I won’t look at them ever again). I also have tons of old photos which I am no longer interested in — but I still keep them for some reason.
Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos
This is one of those subjects in the photography world that is strangely controversial – like Nikon vs. Canon, DSLR vs. Smartphone and Prime vs. Zoom … the idea that you should delete your sh!t – or in other words – why you might want to permanently delete most of the photos that you’ve ever captured (on purpose)!
Lets start with a universal truth.
99% of the photos that I take, that you take or that any other photographer takes are junk that nobody will ever see, or ever want to see.
So in this article I am going to encourage you to trash everything except your best work – after hitting delete you’ll feel better, I promise.
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