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Apple Launches New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Plans
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and convince people that their cat videos are really important because cats are family and those videos need to be stored at 4 different locations and two should be in Cloud.
This article might help some folks who want to share their storage across a Family group:
support.apple.com
Share iCloud+ with your Family Sharing group - Apple Support
With Family Sharing, you can share an iCloud+ subscription with up to five other family members. This includes up to 12 TB of iCloud storage, as well as features like iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, and HomeKit Secure Video support.
Too bad you can't use the TV app to stream iTunes DRM content from your iCloud space. I have a personal collection of 6TB worth of TV shows and movies, some iTunes and some non-DRM. I would love to put it up on iCloud and stream it to the TV app.
That's strange because in the eurozone the price is the same for 2TB.And delightfully last month Apple increased the price of my 2TB plan.
50GB: 0.99 €
200GB: 2.99 €
2TB: 9.99 €
6TB: 29.99 €
12TB: 59.99 €
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more space in iCloud, you can upgrade to iCloud+.
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A lot of different reasons. That storage amount can be enough for one person yes, but if you’ve got five members in your family, and they’ve all been taking photos and videos cumulatively since iCloud became a thing, higher res pictures and RAW formats as well- that’s going to quickly stack up and that’s before anybody using iCloud Drive stuff. Honestly I think iCloud Drive is garbage I’ve been waiting almost two months now to get 2TB of data due to an error on Apple’s part, just so I can make space for family photos/backups all that trash instead of having to jump to 6GB already.
If only the UK adopted the euro back in the 90sThat's strange because in the eurozone the price is the same for 2TB.
50GB: 0.99 €
200GB: 2.99 €
2TB: 9.99 €
6TB: 29.99 €
12TB: 59.99 €
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more space in iCloud, you can upgrade to iCloud+.
I keep everything.
Have copies, of copies, of . . . multiple copies of everything.
[o.k.: I admit to off-loading some old GF pics, so they wouldn't be able to come-up in convo with a new GF . . . but, I have those on local, NAS and B2!]
When someone (usually a Project Manager, but sometimes a friend/co-worker) asks if I have a photo of "______", I can pull-up that pic/vid on my phone in ms (anywhere; at any time)
I have about 170GB of Message data in iCloud (synch'ed to four devices), and iMessage is as snappy as it has always been 🤷♂️
I have plans to get things lean&mean, but--with all the available storage opportunities--the need is just not very pressing.
Yahoo Mail offers FREE 1tb base storage. Apple can most certainly offer more than 5GB of base iCloud storage. Times have changed and file & photo sizes have gotten much bigger since the iPhone 4s & iCloud were introduced.
I may just have to write a letter to Mr. C, and you may want to do the same. The more requests to increase base storage, the more likely he'll get the picture. But, I digress, as he is drowning in money...from those millions of paid iCloud accounts.
I may just have to write a letter to Mr. C, and you may want to do the same. The more requests to increase base storage, the more likely he'll get the picture. But, I digress, as he is drowning in money...from those millions of paid iCloud accounts.
It’s about the threat model tho. You really shouldn’t have to “trust” iCloud to be protected against these practices, but if there is a significant risk you can always use something with open-source, client-side encryption so the data is encrypted prior and not readable by Apple in the first place. That being said, it’s still somewhat of a hassle to do this for a large amount of files, wouldn’t be feasible for an entire photo collection and drive files imo.
~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary
~/Library/Messages
~/Library/Messages/Attachments
IIRC, there are Co's out there who make soft to better-facilitate the transferance of such things, but I don't necessarily trust them, nor do I find that they fully meet my needs.
I just copy the raw data for archival purposes.
If only it worked like that--but it doesn't. Go ahead and delete whatever conversation you like. Then, go to Settings, iPhone Storage, Messages, and then choose either photos or Videos and you'll see all those photos and videos from conversations that you "deleted."
2TB is still $9.99.
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more space in iCloud, you can upgrade to iCloud+.
You are right! This tier is unchanged in price at $9.99 for 2 TB.
iCloud+ plans and pricing - Apple Support
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more space in iCloud, you can upgrade to iCloud+.
Good to know it’s possible. I know we had iCloud storage before Apple One was available. Not sure why it only shows 2TB for everyone while we’re certainly paying for both as you described
One thing they don't advertise too loudly is if you order a new phone from Apple they temporarily give you extra storage to save a backup of your current phone which you can restore on your new phone. I thought the bonus storage during migration was a nice gesture.
Way too expensive. I'd rather buy an external drive and plug it into my router.
To offset the cost to jump to 6tb I downgraded Apple One Premier to just family Apple Music. I was then able to cancel my wife's separate 9.99 iCloud 2tb plan that we had to carry. Now we are sitting at 3.4tb of 6tb and I'm only spending another $4 per month and can now add back in about 400gb of videos I had to export to my NAS.
To those of you saying backup to a NAS instead to save money you just don't get it. I say that as someone who has a Synology NAS with 40tb of storage. I'm all for having a local backup but a NAS is a poor replacement for the beautiful simplicity of iCloud. It automatically syncs across all devices. If my wife wants to see a concert video of our daughter from 4 years ago or our first family trip to Disney World 8 years ago it's right there on her iPhone/iPad/MacBook. We have a shared MacBook folder for various shared documents that are easily viewable on all devices. If I want to search text messages I sent 5 years ago like I just did last night to find info I needed I can. It's all there. Browsing a network share to dig up pictures and videos is a bad time.
To those of you saying backup to a NAS instead to save money you just don't get it. I say that as someone who has a Synology NAS with 40tb of storage. I'm all for having a local backup but a NAS is a poor replacement for the beautiful simplicity of iCloud. It automatically syncs across all devices. If my wife wants to see a concert video of our daughter from 4 years ago or our first family trip to Disney World 8 years ago it's right there on her iPhone/iPad/MacBook. We have a shared MacBook folder for various shared documents that are easily viewable on all devices. If I want to search text messages I sent 5 years ago like I just did last night to find info I needed I can. It's all there. Browsing a network share to dig up pictures and videos is a bad time.
Email with a custom domain is a good deal at $0.99/month even without the storage. It's a very niche feature though.
45mp pictures and 4k video. Not hard to imagine why someone could use lots of space these days.
I would never get 12 TB of iCloud. I store barely anything up there—it's email and messages mostly, and I still have 38.2 GB available. To be honest, I'd much rather have a 12 TB local drive or server (which I do) than 12 TB of iCloud.
In my experience, the internet isn't fast or reliable enough (at least where I live) to be uploading large video projects to iCloud constantly. In fact, at my house, it takes an hour and a half at least to upload just 6 GB. Internet where I live is so hilariously asymmetrical that it just doesn't make any sense - you can have a gigabit downlink and only 40 Mb/s uplink... Fiber is only available in limited quantities. The internet is NEVER going to be as fast as an SSD, so it doesn't make sense in my mind. If I edited off the cloud, it'd take me like a week just to get all the assets across to the client - well okay, that's an exaggeration, but you know what I mean? Plus, iCloud is just hella slow anyway compared to other services...
In my experience, the internet isn't fast or reliable enough (at least where I live) to be uploading large video projects to iCloud constantly. In fact, at my house, it takes an hour and a half at least to upload just 6 GB. Internet where I live is so hilariously asymmetrical that it just doesn't make any sense - you can have a gigabit downlink and only 40 Mb/s uplink... Fiber is only available in limited quantities. The internet is NEVER going to be as fast as an SSD, so it doesn't make sense in my mind. If I edited off the cloud, it'd take me like a week just to get all the assets across to the client - well okay, that's an exaggeration, but you know what I mean? Plus, iCloud is just hella slow anyway compared to other services...
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