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Apple Highlights Five Perks for iPhone Users Who Pay for iCloud Storage

I have the 200 GB plan. It frees space on my iPhone and gets my photos and messages to sync better. My concern, besides not having any tiers between 200 GB and 2 TB, is whether my data will remain private and secure. The UK government keeps pushing to have a backdoor on iCloud. If they get it, other governments will want it. (I'm in the US and...well, you know.) That's why I'm looking at getting a NAS device to create a private cloud. If it can replace the functions of iCloud+, I'd rather use it instead. While I'd lose the safety of off-site storage, I know my data will stay private and under my control.
 
Donkey Man said:
No, thanks - stop pushing your services crap through nagging notifications, Apple - those who wish to pay will have done it already.
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Yeah, try using an iPhone without signing up to all of the iCloud and AppleCare stuff.

The amount of notifications from Apple to get you to sign up, are as bad as the spammiest app in the App Store.
 
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Cloud is someone else's computer. I only keep non-essential data on iCloud. Everything else stays local, so the 5GB plan still works fine for now.
 
bluecoast said:
Yeah, try using an iPhone without signing up to all of the iCloud and AppleCare stuff.

The amount of notifications from Apple to get you to sign up, are as bad as the spammiest app in the App Store.
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Even if you turn the iCloud stuff off, some iOS updates will sneakily turn them back on.
 
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Justin Cymbal said:
Exactly. How many people are even on the 200gb plan these days?!

200gb is so outdated in today’s world for most individuals, ESPECIALLY families

Both my Dad & I are each using close to 300gb of our 2tb plan

I read MR comments regarding this issue all the time of the fact that there isn’t ANY plan between 200gb and 2000gb!!

1800gb (10 x) is SUCH a massive gap/difference that has been talked about on these forums FOR YEARS and yet 🍎 has yet to publicly acknowledge this issue and/or rectify it (in any way)

Pretty much every iCloud user’s storage needs continue to increase (not decrease) so it would be prudent for Apple to not only modernize the 200gb plan to say 500gb - for the same cost (or a dollar or two more) but also to continuously revisit their iCloud storage pricing models (on a regular 5yr OR multi-year basis) to allow their effective pricing and storage amounts to more closely resemble the current needs of customers - as demand for storage will only increase as users take more pictures (using ever higher quality iPhone cameras)

Storage costs also are continuously decreasing over time as technology progresses so Apple can (and should) price storage much more competitively than they have been doing.
Google’s cloud storage costs serve as the most effective barometer of a ballpark of what Apple SHOULD be charging - google has continuously lowered their pricing in recent years, while Apple has stayed the same for an unnecessarily long time - causing a very large discrepancy in Apple’s storage competitiveness with the current market
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I am - I think it's the sweet spot for individuals.

As to why Apple says that 200GB is for families also... I really doubt that that is realistic. 2TB is surely the family tier.

But hey, if you're paying for Apple TV and Apple Music and you need 2TB, why don't you just get Apple One?

Apple is very good at getting people to climb up the pricing ladder.
 
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platinumaqua said:
Even if you turn the iCloud stuff off, some iOS updates will sneakily turn them back on.
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I'm surprised when you activate Apple Pay, that Apple doesn't just tell you that it's put you on the 50GB or 200GB tier - depending on how much stuff you have - and has already set up a direct debit for you.

I'm sure that they would do that if they could.

I guess they could give everyone a free U2 album to sweeten the deal.
 
il_teo77 said:
Curious that with the absence of real competition, as far as integration with the Os goes, the prices increase linearly with no discount whatsoever. 2-6-12 Tb all have the same “side benefits” and yet the storage price increases linearly instead of flattening out.
Explain to me again why the EU shouldn’t enforce some competition as far as iOS integration goes? There’s nothing remotely comparable in terms of cloud storage for iOS devices. Nothing that keeps Photos albums, faces, backups and the like. And, mind you, iCloud is reportedly “stupid” (all face recognition happens on device, as well as most privacy sensitive information and/or handling or said information) and yet no one outside Apple can provide it? There’s plenty of companies that could provide secure, encrypted storage of the data if they only could, and for a fraction of the price. And yet privacy, bla bla bla. If the data is mine, handled on device, and Apple cannot access it, why shouldn’t Apple allow third parties, at the same condition, to offer the same service? Or, better still, allow me to have an “on premise” compatible device doing the exact same (as time capsule was)? 120 usd a year for 1 tb of cloud storage, even factoring the services (which, again, are device dependent and not handled by the cloud) is absurd. Apple’s iCloud, per their definition and privacy orientation, is just some dumb disk in the sky…
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You’re right. Governments should mandate this. It would decrease our prices and/or improve features. The EU is the only one with us consumers in mind right now so they should do it first
 
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dumastudetto said:
Only Apple can do this because they control the full stack.
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I would absolutely love the ability to plug whatever storage provider I want into the back of iCloud. Do the encryption / decryption on the device end (like Advanced Data Protection already does) to address privacy or security concerns.

Of course, Tim will never allow competition from cloud providers. You want to back up your iPhone to Proton, automatically in the background? Tough luck.
 
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Justin Cymbal said:
Exactly. How many people are even on the 200gb plan these days?!

200gb is so outdated in today’s world for most individuals, ESPECIALLY families

Both my Dad & I are each using close to 300gb of our 2tb plan

I read MR comments regarding this issue all the time of the fact that there isn’t ANY plan between 200gb and 2000gb!!

1800gb (10 x) is SUCH a massive gap/difference that has been talked about on these forums FOR YEARS and yet 🍎 has yet to publicly acknowledge this issue and/or rectify it (in any way)

Pretty much every iCloud user’s storage needs continue to increase (not decrease) so it would be prudent for Apple to not only modernize the 200gb plan to say 500gb - for the same cost (or a dollar or two more) but also to continuously revisit their iCloud storage pricing models (on a regular 5yr OR multi-year basis) to allow their effective pricing and storage amounts to more closely resemble the current needs of customers - as demand for storage will only increase as users take more pictures (using ever higher quality iPhone cameras)

Storage costs also are continuously decreasing over time as technology progresses so Apple can (and should) price storage much more competitively than they have been doing.
Google’s cloud storage costs serve as the most effective barometer of a ballpark of what Apple SHOULD be charging - google has continuously lowered their pricing in recent years, while Apple has stayed the same for an unnecessarily long time - causing a very large discrepancy in Apple’s storage competitiveness with the current market
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Pretty sure more people are on the 200GB tier than any other.
 
I use the .99 cent plan but i dont store photos n stuff on icloud I just offload them to a sd or usb every few months, I never got why people will keep every photo and video they ever took on there phone forever.
 
If only there was a journalistic article on this site comparing the storage options from Apple and competitors without all the extra options apart from basic storage. I could do without HomeKit, Invites, Relay, Hide my email, Custom Domain, Family Sharing...
 
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I get a lot of features for only 99 cents per month. I can't remember when I started paying for iCloud, but I think it's worth it at that price. Advanced data protection makes it even better.
 
I use it specifically for the photo sync from my phone to my Mac, because the manual way of doing it is horrible (probably by design).

I don't use documents as I had so many problems over the years with triplication and quadruplication of files so completely lost trust in it.

Having a feature to use a local external drive for 'iCloud' syncing purposes would be amazing.
 
Apple Invites is not a great feature to have. It is way too fussy for non-iCloud users to use, requiring guests to set up an iCloud account etc.
 
Increased storage for each price point would be helpful. I’ve been snugged up to the 2TB I have for years and don’t feel the head space to use options like iCloud backups etc.

Storage is cheap, give people more than they need so we can transition away from synchronizing everything at home, (music, photos, backups) to laptops and external drives. Especially with Time Capsules being retired.
 
Would be nice to have photo's and messages show up on all devices but I can't see paying for the service. We already pay enough for the devices and maybe music which I'll probably cancel as it eats up my phone data.
 
Oh, good. I woke up in a cold sweat last night because this article hadn’t been republished in a few weeks, so I forgot about my iCloud+ perks. Thanks, MacRumors!
 
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