MICRO INNOVATION How to set up a cell phone to upload photos to One Drive

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OneDrive is the Microsoft cloud service that connects you to all your files. It lets you store and protect your files, share them with others, and get to them from anywhere on all your devices.

Most Caltrans employees have a OneDrive account associated with their Caltrans ID. You can connect your cell phone to this account using the Microsoft OneDrive App, available for both Android and Apple devices.

Note: As of this writing, IT is evaluating OneDrive App for use on Caltrans devi-ces. You are responsible for any charges associated with its use. Contact your IT department to enquire as to whether you are permitted to install Microsoft OneDrive App on a state cell phones. The App will appear in the Caltrans HUB after evaluation and approval by IT.

Setting up OneDrive App to synchronize photos to your Caltrans OneDrive account:

• Launch the OneDrive App

• Sign in using your Caltrans e-mail address iPhones store their photos and videos in HEIC, which isn’t natively read on our Windows installation. It may be more convenient to store them in a format that is more widely useable. To do that, go to Settings->Camera->Formats->. Check the “Most Compatible” box.

• From the App’s home screen, tap on your image or initials in the upper-left.

• From there click on Photos.

• In the upper right you will see a button to turn on “Camera Upload”, which takes you to a screen where you can set the slider.

• Confirm the choice.

• You are given the options to whether to use cellular data, include videos and how the photos should be organized.

Once the synchronization is complete you will see “Up to date” on the OneDrive App’s photo screen.

To access the photos on your computer, make sure are signed into Microsoft (should be by default). The photos will be placed in your Pictures folder. By default, synchronized photos are placed in the “Camera Roll” folder and organized by year and month. You can also access the photos on your OneDrive account on-line.

For more information on OneDrive photo sharing, refer to the Microsoft Support topic linked to below: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-photos-andvideos-to-onedrive-automatically-42a0202d-c944-4ebc-bb1732d0082226f8

Here is a Business Insider article on iPhone storage formats: https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/heic-to-jpg