Backing up your phone is crucial to avoid losing photos and videos, so use cloud storage apps like Dropbox, Google Photos, or iCloud.

Dropbox, Flickr, and Google Photos are great for photo backup with various storage options to cater to different needs.

iCloud and Adobe Lightroom are also excellent options for Apple users and content creators looking to store and edit photos.

Your camera roll is chock-full of photos -- that's what we get for living in a world where so many devices come with built in high-quality cameras. Indeed, whether it's better to live in the moment or capture it with a phone is a topic of its own, but the fact remains: people frequently use their phones to take photos.

Because many of those photos are likely deemed important by the person that took them, it would be a shame if any of them were lost. This can happen if your phone isn't backed up and you lose it somewhere. That's the most common way that a photo goes from a potential profile picture to never seen again. Backing up your phone is important for many reasons, but one of the top ones is so that you don't lose your photos or videos.

A lot of phones automatically back up their contents to the preferred cloud storage app by the manufacturer. You may not even realize your things are backed up. But, if you aren't backing up your photosor you're someone who uses an actual camera and wants to back them up, there are different apps and programs to use. Here are some of my favorite options for backing up photos.