My subscriptions — including Apple One Premier — are attached to an email I used when iTunes was first launched. My iCloud family is managed using my iCloud email. There's never been a way to merge these so we've never been able to benefit from the "secret" 4TB iCloud storage option if you have Apple One *and* iCloud+ on the same account. So today I upgraded to 6TB on my iCloud account — which manages my family — but my family members appear locked into the 2TB from the Apple One Premier subscription. Wondering if anyone has solved this? Do we need to unsubscribe from AO and resubscribe?
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Apple Launches New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Plans
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My messages shows similar. It's brutal. it's all useless attachments, but it is brutal trying to clean them. I wish Apple had some options to delete attachments after X number of days as opposed to deleting messages after 30days/1year.
Your folks should learn to delete photos and videos. I purged mine recently and reduced count 40%. Digital photography just collects excessive crap.
Same goes for messages, delete old stuff as performance goes down with such a large messages data set.
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Frankly, I think the prices für 2 TB and 6 TB are fine.
But the issue are the prices for 201 GB and for 2.01 TB. Those are the ripoffs.
But the issue are the prices for 201 GB and for 2.01 TB. Those are the ripoffs.
Yep, same issue here (as I posted in the previous page). 4TB would be perfect for us, but no solution... :-(
I just bought the 12tb, made an account to respond to this of the people wondering why so much for 12tb. I do photography and record lots of XAVC SI videos. I need the storage space. my pc has 13tb and MacBook as 1tb. I own an external SSD of 4tb. IT fills up and quickly. I personally chose to upgrade from 2tb to 12tb + apple one with 2tb to a total of 14tb, 2tb already fully used. I need the extra storage. I edit lots of videos and photos so. I personally like it. Apple isn't forcing anyone to go higher TB just stick with 2tb. just I and other people that use a lot of storage just need it;plus I do like how Easy it is for me to plug my camera cfexpress card to my iPad Pro and just sync it to my iCloud which is now on all my devices including my windows pc when using iTunes iCloud app
I get the sense that nothing will change for Apple One. Still 2TB at the Premier/Family option, and then ability to add on additional storage. That's how it shows right now anyway when I look.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Make sure you have your own local backup that you fully control. I would never trust any cloud service as my only backup for personal photos and videos I've shot.
You can buy a 8TB-12TB HDD for < $100. If you don't have a backup other than iCloud, I very strongly encourage you to buy yourself 1 or 2 such drives immediately and get copies of all of those iCloud files on drives you control. Store one at home so you can regularly add to it and store the other offsite. Rotate the one at home with the one offsite so that the offsite one is pretty up-to-date at all times.
One up-to-date backup stored offsite protects against the fire/flood/theft scenario far better than only trusting the cloud. In one, you have completely ownership & control. In the other, you are trusting distant strangers.
This doesn't necessarily mean stop using iCloud- just own & control at least 2 local copies too. Odds in losing all of your photos & videos with that 3-way protection would be VERY low.
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yep the rules to backup is having backed up your files 3 times to be considered safe. I own 13tb worth of ssd internally In my pc and 4tb external usb c. I still pay for iCloud for that extra layer of both easily receiving my files, photos and videos and also for the factor of having a copy safe on iCloud
Yes I think it's crazy that a year of 12TB would be close to the price of the base iP15
That monthly price for 12 TB makes me glad I invested in HDDs and my own cloud storage.
I’ve done a lot of comparisons between Dropbox and iCloud for file storage, and iCloud is a bit annoying. If you have 512GB free on a device and 2TB of files in the cloud…. It is challenging to keep what you want on device. You will be working on a project, and all of a sudden iCloud decides to remove a bunch of files you need locally. Dropbox is much better here, but iCloud now offers larger cloud storage for the dollar.
You can’t move your local iCloud to a different volume. So, likely my next Mac has 8TB primary drive, which is a bit counter intuitive. Apple wins both ways.
If purely using it for photos though, you can put the local cache on a different volume.
You can’t move your local iCloud to a different volume. So, likely my next Mac has 8TB primary drive, which is a bit counter intuitive. Apple wins both ways.
If purely using it for photos though, you can put the local cache on a different volume.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
If someone has nothing else to backup or serve those three, cloud for the win.
If me and those were my data hogs, I'd get a portable drive to plug into my devices to offload/access those 3. Portable should be much faster R/W than cloud, will burn no bytes against unlimited* plans (which means towards the throttling level) and if I found myself in any zones with no signal, I could still backup/offload/onload.
If I was really concerned about backups, I'd bring TWO such drives and backup 2 copies... or one drive in the field and one on the MB back at home base.
Then, at my Mac, I process the videos, photos and music, put the ones I know I want with me at all times in albums/playlists and sync those to onboard storage on my iDevice and/or portable drive. Those I want with me would be on my iDevice, the mass data clutter I don't want with me could occupy big storage back at home.
If my needs were such that I couldn't know what of that clutter I need with me, I'd buy a NAS, set up my own cloud for $0/month and store as much digital clutter as I would ever need in my own cloud... which I could then freely access just like any paid cloud now. And if I ever needed even more cloud space, I'd just allocate more space for $0/month vs. paying more and more and more to rent the same space.
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What is the best way to get all your iCloud content, including all your photos onto a physical drive? I would really love to do this, but do not know where to start once I have the drives.
Is storage just storage? I think not.
Storing on your own hard drives is risky: if you don't have it in 3 places including one off-site, you don't have it. So multiply any storage you need locally 3x.
I buy and use my own hard drives but for sharing with family and for things I know I might need while traveling, why manage that yourself when you have a global backed-up and duplicated storage network?
It is ridiculous that it jumps from 200GB to 2GB. Give us a 1TB option, please.
so many people asking for an option between 200GB and 2TB but instead Apple decides to add offer even higher tiers.....
I will continue to cull my photos, delete iMessage in the cloud threads, and do whatever else I need to instead of giving in and adding another $100 a year to Apples coffers because I need 10% more space, I don't need 1000% more.
show me any other Apple product or service when the jump between levels is 10X
I will continue to cull my photos, delete iMessage in the cloud threads, and do whatever else I need to instead of giving in and adding another $100 a year to Apples coffers because I need 10% more space, I don't need 1000% more.
show me any other Apple product or service when the jump between levels is 10X
So, the extra storage space is paid for in addition to the 2TB family shared storage with the Premier plan? There should be a discount to adding additional storage to the premier plan, or increase the 2TB, because now having 2 adults with lots of photos and 2 kids with ipads, 1 of those also has a phone, we are quickly approaching that 2TB limitation. And I don't want to pay an additional $30/month to add 6TB. That's overkill and overpayment.
Guess I have to hope we don't run out of space before they decide what to do about family sharing space of the Premier plan.
Guess I have to hope we don't run out of space before they decide what to do about family sharing space of the Premier plan.
just pay for the 2tb then, which would make your iCloud 4tb