What to do with photos on your phone: 5 easy ideas

The best answer to what to do with photos on your phone is to pick one small project, not fix your whole camera roll. With klikkie you can turn a slice of them into a photo book in about 2 minutes once your photos are in. Or get 10 prints a month with a photo subscription.

Key facts. Photo book in about 2 minutes once your photos are in · Pocket 10×10 cm from €14 · Large 21×21 cm, up to 298 pages · 10 prints a month, or 20 with the Family Plan · a Memory Box holds about 120 to 150 prints

What to do with photos on your phone when you have thousands?

Start with one moment, one month or one person, and leave the rest for later.

A camera roll with thousands of photos feels like a job you can never finish. So don't treat it as one job. Each idea below takes a small slice of your photos and turns it into something you can hold.

1. A photo book made with klikkie agent for one trip, one season or one child.
2. Monthly prints with a photo subscription, so the newest photos never pile up.
3. A Memory Box to keep all those prints together.
4. A yearly book that tells the whole year in one go.
5. A Pocket photo book as a small gift for someone in your photos.

You don't have to do all five. Most people start with one and add another when it feels easy. That is really all there is to what to do with photos on your phone. Make something small, then make the next thing.

How do I organise and print my camera roll photos?

Organise only the photos you need for one project, then print them as a book or as monthly prints.

You do not have to sort your whole phone first. For a book you need the photos of one trip or one year, and klikkie agent does the picking. For prints you choose 10 favourites a month. Both work with the camera roll exactly as it is today.

Still want a tidier phone? Deleting doubles, blurry shots and screenshots is a separate job you can do one evening. Our guide shows you how to clean up phone photos step by step. And if you mainly want loose prints, see how to print photos from your iPhone or Android.

One tip for every idea here. Use the original photo from your camera roll, not the one you got through WhatsApp. WhatsApp photos are compressed and print less sharp.

How do monthly prints keep new photos from piling up?

A photo subscription gets 10 of your favourite photos printed every month, so you never fall behind again.

Big projects fix the past. Monthly prints keep the present under control. With the klikkie photo subscription you choose 10 photos a month in the klikkie app. They come through the letterbox in a black envelope. With the Family Plan you get 20 prints a month, handy when more people in the house take photos.

You can pause or cancel anytime and there is no minimum contract. Every print has a white border and is printed on matte or lustre premium paper. Choose XL, Square or a retro Strip, like a photo booth.

Choosing just 10 photos a month is also a nice habit. It makes you look back at your month and pick what really mattered. Find out more in what a klikkie photo subscription is.

Where do you keep all those prints?

A klikkie Memory Box holds about 120 to 150 prints, which is about a year of the subscription.

Prints in a drawer get bent and lost. A Memory Box keeps them flat, safe and in one place, from €15. Give each year its own box and you build a small archive without thinking about it.

It is also the box people pull off the shelf when family visits. Flicking through real prints feels very different from scrolling past them.

What can you make from a whole year or just a handful of photos?

A yearly book tells twelve months in one story, and a Pocket photo book turns a handful of photos into a small gift.

For a yearly book, pick a fixed moment, like the end of December or a birthday, and make it a small tradition. With klikkie agent a year book takes about 2 minutes once your photos are in. You don't need the perfect selection. Add the photos that made you smile and let klikkie agent find the best ones and put them in order. The Large photo book (21 × 21 cm) starts at 24 pages and goes up to 298 pages, so a full year fits.

For a gift, think of a weekend away with a friend, a grandparent with the grandchildren, or the first weeks with a new puppy. The Pocket photo book (10.2 × 10.2 cm) starts at 18 pages, from €14. It gives photos that would otherwise stay on your phone a home, and someone else a reason to smile.

How do you turn camera roll photos into a book with klikkie?

Add one moment's photos, tell klikkie agent the story, and your book takes about 2 minutes once your photos are in.

1. Pick one moment. A trip, a season, one child or one year. Small is fine.
2. Add the photos. Open the klikkie app or go to books.klikkie.com and add the originals from your camera roll.
3. Tell klikkie agent what happened. Who was there, what made you laugh, which day was the best. klikkie agent picks the strongest shots, designs the pages and turns your words into captions. Talking is about three times faster than typing, so many people simply say it out loud.
4. Check and order. Look at every page, change what you like and order. Books with text are ordered about four times as often, so keep those captions.

It is the easiest way to create a photo book with a full camera roll. It is also the quickest way from camera roll to photo book. Want every detail? Read how to make a photo book on your phone.

More than 360,000 people have already made something with klikkie. Choose one idea, start small and pick your klikkie photo book today.

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