The availability of smartphones and their powerful cameras tempt us to produce a lot of image material that is later hardly mastered and is easily forgotten.

Out of sight, out of mind?

A snapshot here, a video there – and no one watches it later: smartphone recordings are quickly forgotten. Almost one in two (44 percent) rarely looks at most photos or videos later. Only 16 percent edit their photos or videos afterwards and only 9 percent delete photos or videos regularly. This is the result of a representative survey of more than 1,000 people in Germany aged 16 and over on behalf of the digital association Bitkom.

Flood of images takes a toll on smartphone performance

Bitkom expert Dr. Sebastian Klöß, Head of Consumer Technology, explains:

“The smartphone is omnipresent and its extremely powerful cameras capture almost everything that determines our everyday lives. It is all the more important to keep an overview of the ever-increasing number of photos and videos. Almost every smartphone user uses them to take photos and videos, but less than a tenth regularly clears out unnecessary recordings.”

This often leads to overloaded storage and loss of performance, says Klöß, who recommends cleaning up your collection of recordings regularly.

“There are special apps that find duplicate and similar recordings and suggest them for deletion. PC software and cloud services also help sort the recordings without having to do a lot of work.”

It is generally advisable to regularly back up photos and videos on an external storage medium or in the cloud.

Representative survey methodology

Note on methodology: The information is based on a representative survey that Bitkom Research conducted on behalf of the digital association Bitkom.
For this purpose, 1,002 German citizens aged 16 and over were surveyed. The questions were: “How often do you use the following camera functions on your smartphone?”; “And how do you handle your photos or videos after you have taken them?”

Conclusion

A survey by the digital association Bitkom shows that almost half of all smartphone users no longer look at their digital recordings and only just under a tenth actively delete them. This leads to memory problems and reduced performance of smartphones. The association recommends cleaning up photos and videos regularly and backing them up on external data storage or in the cloud.

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Source: Bitkom


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