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As a slight tweak on this suggestion:
I keep an inexpensive USB card-reader, such as this one**, in my aircraft at all times.
As soon as I park the airplane, I plug the USB stick into my iPad/iPhone and transfer the appropriate files off of each SD Card in the panel. The somewhat-new iOS “Files” app is great for doing this.
Each SD card is removed from its avionics device just long enough to download the file(s), then it is re-mounted into its device.
The iPad “Files” app allows you to save the files to your chosen cloud storage system. It will queue the files for synchronization even if it doesn’t have an internet connection when you download the files! So you can do this whole process in the cockpit, and as soon as the iPad gets a connection (wifi or cellular data), the files will sync to the cloud.
The result is that your SD Card files will be available to you on any computer/device, and you never have to ferry those SD cards anywhere! The SD cards and the USB reader never leave the cockpit, so they never have a chance to get lost or be left out of the airplane.
–Noel
P.S. Android devices can follow this same procedure, but will need to use their appropriate file-transfer app/tool.
**(not an endorsement, just one I’ve had success with)
…and as a corollary to this: You can keep your important Database, terrain, airspace, and other files in the cloud storage system of your choice. Whenever you want to transfer them to your avionics devices, simply follow the reverse of the process in my previous comment.
Flying used to be so simple. But I used to be not so old.