Apple Defeats Lawsuit Related to iCloud's Measly 5GB of Free Storage

[kitKAC]

If Apple would leave my Library untouched, I would.

Have you tried it recently?

 

[dumastudetto]

I'm ok with paying for my 2TB plan, but I'd very much like to sync my Music folder without an Apple Music subscription.

iTunes Match does that for $30 a year, if it’s still available.

 

[jimbobb24]

How many modern lawsuits are some variation of "My client is really stupid your honor. So I should become super super rich!"

 

[raghu8912]

This is just how Tim Cook operates these days...Less on customer experience, more on bottom-line.

Either way, it's a bad look for the 5GB free iCloud storage. They obviously thought the 5GB was sufficient in 2012 - with everything growing over the past 12 years (file sizes and what we store), this should have at least increased.

And also, I don't care if it's one penny a month - why nickle & dime customers? Just a bad experience.

so how much storage you want for free ?

 

[jimbobb24]

iTunes Match does that for $30 a year, if it’s still available.

It still works. I signed up last year (crazy reasons).

 

[raghu8912]

I agree, but 5GB is obscenely low by 2024 standards. It should be at least 20GB to start, especially since many more things are turned on my default syncing to the cloud. The amount of times people have come to me saying they're out of storage and what do I do is insane lol

20GB is not enough for me, i need at least 1TB free.

Apple has truly perfected gaslighting until federally mandated otherwise.

At this point, the days of Apple ever doing anything for the simple good of their customers are gone. Everything is an entire cash grab of services at this point as hardware sales slow and the lack of a truly innovative product from them since the iPhone remains unseen.

they are here to make money, they are not charity.
every business has the same moto, to make money.
i don't understand people blaming companies for making money.

 

[raghu8912]

5GB is basically 0GB, as it's too tiny to be useful

Tim should be embarrassed to have that even be "the offering"

agree, 1TB at least free storage.
every other company does that.
did you look at google, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft they all offer unlimited cloud storage for free.

 

[raghu8912]

In that case they should let me pick a 3rd party online back up service of my choice but they don't, since they love locking us in.

Samsung for example offers it's own backup solution, yet they also let you back up on OneDrive, Google or even a connected thumb drive.

you can backup pictures to third party service providers.
if you exclude pictures then 5GB is enough.

 

[DotCom2]

The jump from 200GB to 2TB is unfortunate. Still nothing in between?

This is the REAL story right here!

 

[VaruLV]

5GB per device would be pathetic and laughable in 2024, but per account its just criminal.

 

[brofkand]

iCloud storage is absolutely a shakedown. Devices are configured to consume tons of iCloud storage by default and there are not clear directions how to change the defaults. Scary pop-ups about losing data when turning off iCloud components. Lots of people I know pay for iCloud storage without really knowing why just to stop the popups.

 

[Slix]

While 5GB should be raised to 10GB or something at this point, I used the free 5GB plan up until a couple years ago. I didn't store any of my photos on there or anything big like that, but it was enough for years of emails and a single phone backup for a while. I totally understand why so many people don't pay the $1 still.

 

[spazzcat]

No I'm sure that might have worked. But after 3 months and 3 dollars lol I was more annoyed than anything so I decided the DELETE ACCOUNT OPTION. Didn't want to waste time with something that might not have worked over the phone in 2024. Over downgrading my storage.

So you tried nothing and were out of ideas.

 

[reyesmac]

Remember before Apple charged for online storage the operating system was designed to be the hub of your digital life? Wouldn't it be neat to have all that cloud stuff just work off the device you are in front of occasionally throughout the day instead of that data being on Apples servers? It used to be that way, not real time backup, it used cables, but it could have evolved into its current form without adding another subscription cost to our lives. Plus they made things like photos impossible to easily export to logical names and folder structures. Making it that much harder to pull the plug on iCloud. They are slick, and they are getting away with it.

 

[spazzcat]

20GB is not enough for me, i need at least 1TB free.

they are here to make money, they are not charity.
every business has the same moto, to make money.
i don't understand people blaming companies for making money.

I agree, so many don't seem to understand companies only exists to make money. They make money by selling you things/services.

 

[Jamie0003]

It's absolutely amazing how much whining and complaining (and apparently lawyering) people will do over $1 a month.

And really the only reason they charge that at all is so that people don't abandon accounts with tons of data that Apple has to store forever.

Giving 50 gb for free won’t cost Apple anything, lets be real here.

IMO, the bigger issue is the fact there are no alternatives to iCloud on iOS. Even backing up locally you need a pc or Mac setup, and have to manually sync each time. If this isn’t seen as a monopoly then nothing is…

 

[tCdemon]

The real crime here is not being able to pay for iCloud extra storage per year instead of per month.

 

[russell_314]

Ok but given how many products Apple sells and how many customers they have, the cost of the frivolous lawsuits amounts to very little per Apple customer.

Probably, but it shouldn’t be something I have to pay for. I put it in the category with theft or shoplifting. I’m sure it doesn’t cost me that much, but I shouldn’t have to pay for it at all.

 

[Radeon85]

5GB is so small they may as well not even offer it at this point, if you manage to just about stay under it then great, good for you. But in almost 2025, 5GB is absolutely pathetic.

Even 99p a month for 50GB is bloody insulting, £12 a year for that measly amount, yet I can buy a 128GB USB stick for £6 to £7, 256GB for about £12 to £15!

Apple, up your god damn capacities already!

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

For my use case, a buck a month is a steal. But I agree that the base tier is anachronistic.

 

[turbineseaplane]

if you exclude pictures then 5GB is enough.

My documents folder alone is more than 5GB

 

[turbineseaplane]

I think the better thing would be if they were forced to open up the system to allow for cloud backups via third-party services.

This ^^ absolutely

That would solve the problem totally by actually introducing competition and options

 

[blodyholy]

Local backup FTW. Storage is so cheap these days, if you have the means to it’s silly not to go that route. There are plenty of tutorials out there on utilizing a NAS to accomplish this.

 

[damienDevZ]

One thing most don’t understand about the backups is that they are completely unnecessary if you understand how your iCloud storage works. Mainly, they back up their iPhones because they don’t want to lose their notes, reminders, or mail and such. But this is all synced to the apps and technically backed up without needing to purchase massive storage to create a backup. You can restore your phone and all your notes, pictures, and whatever else, just syncs back to your phone, completely negating the need to create a backup that takes a huge amount of iCloud space.

 

[turbineseaplane]

One thing most don’t understand about the backups is that they are completely unnecessary if you understand how your iCloud storage works.

Apple is to blame for any confusion here