What Happens to Amazon Photos If You Cancel Prime?

Suppose you are at a point where you want to end your subscription with Amazon Prime; then this raises the question of what happens to your picture.

Still, it’s a logical move because now you will not have an unlimited ability to store photos. The next parts illustrate what happens to photos and various measures one can take to keep them.

What happens to Amazon Photos when you cancel Amazon Prime?

For Amazon Photos, everybody gets 5GB of storage space for free. With Prime, you have unlimited storage for photos and 5GB for videos.

Of course, once cancelling the Prime subscription, you no longer have access to as many photos as you want storage.

This could lead to you topping up the storage limits set by Amazon Photos thus stopping the automatic updating of your pictures.

But what about all those photos that you already have? One question worth asking is whether they were deleted from Amazon Photos. Well, it’s complicated. Here’s what happens when you cancel your Prime subscription:

• You have full free storage of 5GB for both photos and other videos.
• Every picture placed on Instagram after a storage of 5GB is considered an over-quota picture.
• You can download your pictures and videos, but you can’t upload, sync or share a file.
• Every 180 days, Amazon start to delete the last added photos deleting until the user’s storage space does not exceed 5GB.
• However, Amazon will inform you before the company deletes your photos.

Of course, one cannot unsubscribe from Amazon Prime but extend free use or remove pictures unless you are once again below five gigabytes. However, the saved images can also be shared to other third party photo storage services.

Now, let’s see how to save your photos before or after canceling Amazon Prime.

Instructions on how to save Amazon photos on computation

The other way of preserving the photos from Amazon Photos when canceling an Amazon Prime membership is by saving them in the web browser and sending them to the computer. Here’s how to do this:

1. Enter the Amazon Photos website on your browser.
2. Select them in a way that you select all your photos, by clicking the head mark located in the top left corner of the first folder, then holding Shift and selecting the last photo.
3. Select Download.

Your photos will now be downloaded to your computer as a zip file. Right-click it and select extract here. If you don’t want the downloaded file in the download folder; else, click it.

How to transfer pictures from Amazon Photos to Google Photos

If you do not decide to reactivate Prime, then you will need a platform to store all your pictures. If they still prove too large, you should think of transferring them to Google Photos. Google has backup on the cloud across all the platforms, this is a well featured Google Photos substitute.

If you have plenty of photographs, consider transferring all your Amazon Photos to Google Photos.

Also, to remember, the images can be moved back to Amazon Photos depending on the need that one has at a particular time.

To move your photos from Amazon Cloud to Google Photos, download them using the method above, then follow these steps:

1. First, open a Google Photos account on your device.
2. Click on ‘upload’, and from the drop-down list, select ‘computer.’
3. Select the Amazon Photos folder you extracted before from the previous step.
4. To select all your photos, you can also go to the keyboard and press the command or the control key, followed by the A key. Then, click Open.

In case you have the Google Photos and Amazon Drive apps installed in your computer, then moving the photos from one application to the other is easier. All that you need to do is drag your pictures in to the cloud folder via the Finder or File Explorer.

How to Transfer Photos from Amazon Drive to iCloud on a macOS

You can also sync your photos on your Mac and save them on the iCloud as well. Here are steps on how to do this:

1. Save all your files in Amazon Photos and copy them to your Mac then extract the contents of the download by double-clicking it.
2. In the toolbar at the top of the screen, press the Apple icon.
3. Open System Preferences (System Settings if you are using an older version of a Mac OS) and click on your image on the left-hand side of the list on the top of the window.
4. iCloud Settings on Mac
5. Go to Photos from the list and here turn on the Sync this Mac by flipping the concerned button on.

All the photos that you downloaded from Amazon Photos will be uploaded by iCloud Photos.

How do you get those pictures on your Android device?

Some of the compensation measures which you can try include: You can download all your pictures on Amazon Photos before canceling your membership on android phone.

1. Download the Amazon Photos application from the Play Store.
2. Tapping and holding any photo on the iPhone will invite a tick mark. For more than one, click on anyone, and you will be given an option to choose more than one by just sliding your finger on the screen. To remove a photo, tap on it.
3. Tap the three-dot icon.
4. Choose Download. Important to know is that if you have downloaded a photo to your device, this option is not going to be shown.

How to Transfer Images from Amazon Photos to iPhone or iPad

In case you are about to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription, Transfer any extra photos from Amazon Photos to your iPhone or iPad using the Amazon Photos application. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click on the link below to download and install the Amazon Photos app for iPhone from the App Store:
2. Click the thumbnail or the photo and press downwards till you see a tick mark. Next, choose all the extra pictures. Then finally click on check to finalize the changes.
3. Click on the three dots available at the bottom of the screen.
4. Choose Download. What is important to realize if you select this option and the photo is already in your device is that the option will not be displayed.

However, as it will be seen with all the above methods, you can only choose multiple pictures at once, you cannot transfer whole albums or folders at a time.

However, once you have downloaded them they can be synced to iCloud by going to Settings on your iphone and follow the instructions similar to the one above for Macs.

How you can transfer Amazon photos to OneDrive

However, its free storage is the same as OneDrive at 5GB, you can your files with this if you cancel Amazon Prime or if you need more space for photos.

For this, you have to make use of a third-party service such as CloudHQ. This web service can synchronize data between two different cloud accounts, and it will assist in transferring some of the photos stored in Amazon Photos to OneDrive. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Create a CloudHQ account.
2. At the top you get Sync & Backup.
3. Select Amazon Drive as the Source Drive.
4. After that, click on another option called Add Amazon Cloud Drive.
5. After you have clicked the link, log into your Amazon account and then allow permission by clicking Allow.
6. Click on I’d like to sync the entire Amazon Cloud Drive entire Amazon Cloud Drive.
7. Select Next.
8. In Destination Drive, select the Microsoft OneDrive.
9. This feature is available through the OneDrive option in the Cloud HQ.
10. Click on Select“
11. These options include selecting the location where by you want to move your Amazon Drive files or creating a new folder.
12. Click on Next.
13. If you put all the data in a new folder, then do not forget to label it.
14. Then select Create>OK>Start Sync.

How to Transfer Your Amazon Prime Photos to Other Devices

If you cancel your Amazon Prime, you will not be able to use the Prime Photos for storage, for printing of the photos, and for sharing of photos with others for free.

Your photos above the 5 GB mark will downgrade your account to a Basic 5 GB Storage account with the options to delete unwanted photos within the next 60 days.

With the help of the above-mentioned approaches, you will not face any difficulties of losing your pictures after you cancel your Amazon Prime Membership.

Other than the moving pictures, you should also delete multiple copies in your Amazon Photos so that your account storage is below the 5GB before you can try canceling the Membership.