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Apple Launches New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Plans
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my biggest problem is the “file” software being unreliable copying many files.
The Idrive price was an easy pick… it took a few days to back up but my photo liberary sizes does not match somehow so i fear
according to iphone storage my photos take up 326gb but idrive will only back up 234gb?
You really end up with 1 TB per account, you can't share across accounts. It's also a pain to use on non-MS platforms. I get M365 Personal for free every year and I still pay for Apple's storage.
EDIT: Sorry, that's the one person account. It's not better priced as $7 for 1 TB is worse than $11 for 2. But yes, having the office suite with it is at least worth the difference. Again, I'd end up getting both.
No... but not their lower tier plans. Which, if not for the integration into the iPhoneOS in terms of backup, I wouldn't buy due to the value.
You need to purchase Apple One first, ranging from 50GB at $17/month, 200GB at $23/month, 2TB at $33/month, then purchase additional iCloud+ storage at 50GB at $1/month, 200GB at $3/month, 2TB at $10/month, 6TB at $30/month, or 16TB at $60/month.
So to get 4TB, you will have to pay $43, Apple One Premier with 2TB and additional iCloud+ 2TB.
Did it add your Apple One storage to the 6TB? I had 4TB from iCloud+ 2TB and Apple One Premium 2TB and when I upgraded iCloud to 6TB it did not go to 8TB.
And STILL no Time Machine for iCloud... I bought a new Mac mini a couple of months ago and how nice it would've been to 1) power on, 2) sign in w Apple ID, 3) click one button and have my new mini set up exactly like my previous iMac.
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Synology NAS here as well with dual location backups. No longer paying for iCloud at all.
yep it adds up; I did that before with apple one family with 2tb and then extra 10 dollars for 2tb more now I finally changed the 2tb to 12tb so in total I have 14tb and already family and I used up 2.3tb of iCloud data already
And videos! With fur so "Retina" and hi-def, your cat will be jealous that you're petting the iPhone instead of them! 😻
But how does Apple get "another quarter of record services revenue & profit" from THAT kind of thinking???
True, but Microsoft isn't exactly a "charity" either yet seem to be offering a better value here.
I'm sure it's nice for people that just want to transfer some settings, game save data/files/progress, and a few scant amounts of multimedia. Apple has that "premium brand" thing going, but this sort of thing just doesn't scream that :\
The "Costco effect"... Apple's happy with this b/c they know that if they did offer those as options, that would cannibalize sales of the higher 2 that just got offered.
Although granted, sometimes companies lose out in such situations. I wanted a 128 GB 9th gen iPad, but the only 2 storage options were 64 and 256. I didn't want to pay the extra $150 for the latter, so I just went with the former. Free trial of AA did throw a wrench into the works (as some of those games can be 2 to 7 GB apiece). However, I ended up not resubbing to it. On top of that, I ended up getting a Switch, so that sealed the deal as all the time that went into playing AA games now got diverted there.
Can't one person get a MS 365 Family account and create five additional "dummy" logins/email accounts and therefore have access to all 6 TB? I'm sure it's not as clean or easy as a one account access scenario but if they can, $9.99/month or $99.99/year (including premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook plus other features) is far cheaper than $29.99/month for a 6 TB Cloud+ plan.
I have 2 iCloud accounts. You have to upgrade iCloud to 6TB on the account that Apple One Premier is on. I did that and it shows 8TB of space. Then I enabled family sharing and invited my 2nd iCloud account so that now shows 8TB of space.
I downgraded iCloud storage on the 2nd account since it's not combined to the family sharing account and the space will not be used.
To get the 6TB option do I have to cancel my iCloud+ AND apple One?
( which makes 4TB )
And will my data be deleted and again I have to upload it?
( which makes 4TB )
And will my data be deleted and again I have to upload it?
So, does that means you’re now paying for 3 storage options? Or just the new 6TB?
Main family shared account. Paying for iCloud+ 6TB storage and Apple One Premier with 2TB iCloud+ storage for a total of 8TB of storage.
2nd iCloud account used on all of my devices. Switched iCloud to free iCloud storage plan and using the 8TB of storage from family sharing.
So only paying for 2 storage plans.
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If you currently have iCloud+ 2TB and Apple One Premier 2TB for a total of 4TB and upgrade iCloud to 6TB, you will have a total of 8TB.
See the photo I attached.
Thanks you for the reply. It’s not you it’s apple that I’m a little confused. I don’t know maybe it’s simple like a pimple and I’m dumb as hel.
So I have iCloud+ 2TB
Apple One 2TB
4TB obviously
I’m sharing some space with mother well actually just her pictures and videos on the “Photos” app which obviously don’t go in the iCloud Drive.
Now with the new options I just want the 6TB. Now I wonder if I cancel the iCloud+ AND Apple One will all my data be deleted with mothers pictures and videos?
And then if I cancel those 2 will I have to upload files to iCloud Drive again because I am using the iCloud Drive but not mother.
I’m sorry. I feel like that meme where someone explains it 7 times and I still don’t get it.
People don't have time to sync data with their laptop/desktop may be.
I wouldn't pay for cloud storage.
HDD is cheap.
But syncing data and deleting data is time consuming.
I am not paying for cloud storage.
I sync to Synology DS918+.