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Do I have too many photos on my phone?
Compare your photo library size to the average smartphone user.
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🐾PetsHow many photos does the average person have?
The average smartphone user has about 2,100 photos stored on their device (Backblaze/Statista 2023). Including cloud storage, the average rises to about 5,000 photos. About 1.4 trillion photos were taken worldwide in 2023.
Photo storage statistics
- On phone: ~2,100 photos average
- Total (phone + cloud): ~5,000 photos average
- Photos taken per year: ~1,200 per person (US)
- Selfies: 82% of smartphone users take selfies regularly
- "Storage full" messages: 45% of users have received this
Digital hoarding
Studies show most people never look at 80%+ of their photos again. The average person deletes only 1 in 5 photos they take. Google Photos stores over 4 billion photos per day.