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Apple Hikes iCloud+ Subscription Prices in Many Countries Around the World
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Yes… I am actually surprised reading how many is asking for more than 2TB in this thread. We’re a family of 5 where we have 10th of thousands of photos plus both my wife and I is using the iCloud Drive for both desktop and documents on our macs. Still we’re at around 600 Gb and have been so for years.
How many photos do you guys have? 😳
Every quid adds up, but whatever amuses you somehow I guess.
One workaround I’ve heard of is to add the second account to family sharing. That way both of your accounts can share your 2 TB (or the 4 TB ‘secret’ option)!
My family is at 585gb too. My guess is a lot of us see the storage disappearing daily. My friend and his family are at the 1Tb mark. I imagine it’ll take us a few years or more to fill 2tb.
Inflation adjusted these prices are relatively unchanged. Also..they do get cheaper over time because you often get more data for same price. However, the demand for data exceeds the increases most corporations give so that needs grow faster and we must increase size of the plan.
Apple shouldn't be aiming to make massive profits from these sort of services - the fact they are isn't great for long term customer loyalty. There will come a point where this all becomes too much.
£107.88 each year just to have access to photos I've taken isn't great value (especially when I am already spend thousands a year on hardware upgrades).
£107.88 each year just to have access to photos I've taken isn't great value (especially when I am already spend thousands a year on hardware upgrades).
I pay for iCloud. I hope that with the price increase they put some of the money into making it actually work. I use it to synch across machines, but 10% of the time it doesn’t. It doesn’t tell you it hasn’t, there are incomprehensible icons that may tell you something but are not reliable, and there is no interface to check if it has or not. I also use OneDrive for other purposes which gives you a total of 5TB with an MS office subscription for about the price of 2TB iCloud plus includes all the office apps. And OneDrive just works. And if it doesn’t it tells you why. (Try putting / in a file name and OneDrive tells you not to. iCloud just periodically has a silent huff for reasons beyond my comprehension and messes up your files because they didn’t synch properly)
I like Apple stuff and have used it for 37 years. But iCloud doesnt work reliably, never has, and there is no indication it ever will. But a $3500 headset is sexier than making iCloud and Finder work properly so that’s what they do.
I like Apple stuff and have used it for 37 years. But iCloud doesnt work reliably, never has, and there is no indication it ever will. But a $3500 headset is sexier than making iCloud and Finder work properly so that’s what they do.
Precisely, that’s why redundancy was invented.
Here’s all the new prices that I found from GSMarena’s article:
| Before | Now | |||||
| Storage | 50GB | 200GB | 2TB | 50GB | 200GB | 2TB |
| Australia | A$1.49 | A$4.49 | A$14.99 | A$1.49 | A$4.49 | A$14.99 |
| Brazil | R$3.50 | R$10.90 | R$34.90 | R$4.90 | R$14.90 | R$49.90 |
| Canada | C$1.29 | C$3.99 | $C12.99 | C$1.29 | C$3.99 | $C12.99 |
| Czechia | 25 Kč | 79 Kč | 249 Kč | 25 Kč | 79 Kč | 249 Kč |
| Denmark | 7 kr | 25 kr | 69 kr | 9 kr | 25 kr | 89 kr |
| Euro | €0.99 | €2.99 | €9.99 | €0.99 | €2.99 | €9.99 |
| India | ₹75 | ₹219 | ₹749 | ₹75 | ₹219 | ₹749 |
| Norway | 10 kr | 29 kr | 99 kr | 12 kr | 39 kr | 129 kr |
| Poland | 3.99 zł | 11.99 zł | 39.99 zł | 4.99 zł | 14.99 zł | 49.99 zł |
| Türkiye | 6.49 TL | 19.99 TL | 64.99 TL | 12.99 TL | 39.99 TL | 129.99 TL |
| UK | £0.79 | £2.49 | £6.99 | £0.99 | £2.99 | £8.99 |
| US | $0.99 | $2.99 | $9.99 | $0.99 | $2.99 | $9.99 |
Well, Google offers 15GB for free tire, Microsoft included 5GB + 15GB for email storage.
In fact, for any Pixel owner up to Pixel 5a 5G gets unlimited photo storage with space saver mode.
I would argue, if Apple managed to charger ridiculous amount of money for their shinny new phones, they should at least match what competitors is offering. People are buying into Apple ecosystem and Apple is treating their customers as milk cows.
I don't like the change, I might offload all my photos from iCloud to Google photo and stop paying iCloud.
UK Prices, as I have apple one family at 22.95, and this price hike to 8.99 for 2TB, it is £1 shy of the Premier of 32.95 - that would give me fitness+ and news+
That's how they get you
That's how they get you
I’ve been paying 79p/month for years so it’s hard to get too het up about this, I’ve been expecting a price bump for a while, certainly since they increased the price of Apple Music. Though it would have been nice if they’d upped the storage too while they’re at it…
I understand the comparisons with Google Dropbox etc but for me the primary draw of iCloud is the flawless syncing between my devices. Quite happy to keep paying for this…
I understand the comparisons with Google Dropbox etc but for me the primary draw of iCloud is the flawless syncing between my devices. Quite happy to keep paying for this…
What happens when/if more than 4TB is needed? They won't take more of my money? 🤪
Well, you're basically paying for the privilege of being lazy, so I don't see a problem with it. There are tons of physical backup options out there, where it's pay once and be done for years. If people want to get off Apple's udder, they can.
If you want to share all your private data with Google or Microsoft, that’s your prerogative. (Don’t forget both Google and Microsoft free services are funded through personalised ads, which means they need to know your data to personalise your ads.)
Apple doesn’t do this.
Enjoy.
As long as you do not mind them mining your data, you are absolutely correct.
Again, as long as you do not mind them, compressing your photos, and making it so that you lose resolution and data, you are correct.
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Google 2TB will be £1 cheaper than Apple when this is applied. Makes you think, can you shop around like you would other utility providers.
But make sure you pay for Google photos, else they “optimise” (aka shrink and re-size your images, to fit in their “unlimited” storage.
I used to also use Google Photos until they did this.
I now use Adobe Lightroom and Cloud and also iCloud storage. I pay (happily for both).
There’s no such thing as a free meal.