Apple Reduces Prices of iCloud Storage Plans

[MacRumors]

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller today announced that iCloud storage plans have been reduced in price. 5GB of iCloud storage remains free, while paid upgrades include 50GB for 99 cents per month, 200GB for $2.99 per month and 1TB for $9.99 per month. Prices in other countries may vary based on currency exchange rates.

Apple's old iCloud storage plan pricing tiers were as follows:

• 5GB: Free
  20GB: $0.99/month
  200GB: $3.99/month
  500GB: $9.99/month
  1TB: $19.99/month

Apple's new iCloud storage plans are priced more competitively against other cloud storage services such as Google Drive, which also offers 1TB of storage for $9.99 per month. Microsoft OneDrive remains cheaper, however, offering 1TB of storage and an Office 365 subscription for $6.99 per month.

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[Michaelgtrusa]

I have to say the 99 cents is a steal.

 

[ZacNicholson]

still expensive compared to competitors

 

[Icaras]

Yea but when do the new tiers go live though? I'm ready to downgrade to 50GB now, but the old tiers are still showing.

 

[BerMuc]

Meh, why not 10GB free?

 

[MMan5797]

It's not showing up for me on my phone yet

 

[profets]

Would it have killed them to bump the free tier at least? Even to something like 20GB?

 

[jeffcdo]

I know this is "macrumors" but is OneDrive unlimited or not? I keep reading conflicting stories, even coming from Microsoft.

 

[bdub786]

They still haven't updated the tiers on Apples website or in Settings>iCloud. Looking forward to the $0.99/mo. 50GB option...

 

[cariacou]

50GB is well priced.

can't comment on the others... Apple is the only company pricing cloud storage linearly (or close to)

 

[Slix]

This might finally make me want to start paying for iCloud storage so I can utilize iCloud Photos. But we'll see. 5 GB is still plenty for me for what I use it for.

 

[Trhodezy]

I know this is "macrumors" but is OneDrive unlimited or not? I keep reading conflicting stories, even coming from Microsoft.

Once you're a paying customer you can apply for unlimited (it's actually 10TB; apply for another 10TB when you reach the first) after a month or so of an active subscription.

I'm in the process of moving my entire hard drive (years of gig photos, movies I've created etc) to their servers. Amazing service and product. Cannot fault Microsoft on it.

 

[bigjnyc]

I assume if you are a current 200gb subscriber you don't have to do anything and your next payment will just be 2.99 automatically. Anyone see anything about this anywhere?

 

[ryanmcv]

I thought for sure they would increase the free storage space to at least 10GB. 5GB is just not enough with the increasing sizes of photos and application data. 99 cents for 50GB isn't a bad deal, but I really don't need that much space. 10 or 15GB to store my backups and photos would be perfect.

 

[calisurfboy]

If you want to impress me grant an extra 5 gig per apple device to reward your loyal customers or at least increase the 5 gig to 20 gig.

 

[shareef777]

When will they allow us to purchase iCloud storage to share across a family plan!?

 

[Takeo]

What were the old prices?

 

[IrrationalFanboy]

What were the old prices?

Its posted literally under the picture
but since you're lazy
5GB: Free
20GB: $0.99/month
200GB: $3.99/month
500GB: $9.99/month
1TB: $19.99/month

 

[JosephAW]

The free GB account should equal at least half the size of the product you purchase. So my 64GB iPhone 6 should give me 32GB free storage. Come on!

 

[besler3035]

Its posted literally under the picture
but since you're lazy
5GB: Free
20GB: $0.99/month
200GB: $3.99/month
500GB: $9.99/month
1TB: $19.99/month

They typed out the 1TB wrong. It's actually $9.99/month, not $19.99/month.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I know this is "macrumors" but is OneDrive unlimited or not? I keep reading conflicting stories, even coming from Microsoft.

It is unlimited for those with a Office 365 Home Premium subscription.

 

[realeric]

Still too expensive. I use 15GB google drive and 15GB one drive for free. It should be;

20GB: Free
200GB: $0.99/month
1TB: $3.99/month

 

[sik08amg]

Why not 25GB for .49 cents, or 12GB for a quarter!

 

[LordBeelzebub]

I have to say the 99 cents is a steal.

Oh it's a steal alright, a steal of your money. Apple really needs to charge a whole whopping dollar just to give you 50 gigs? You have services like Flickr that gives 1 terabyte of storage for FREE. Granted it's only for photos and videos, but still.

 

[spinedoc77]

Would it have killed them to bump the free tier at least? Even to something like 20GB?

Financially, maybe.

Even though 99 cents is nothing, I still balk at upgrading my memory because I feel it's an insult, I haven't backup up my iPhone in months lol. With competitors offering MUCH more free storage, and with Apple's immense profit margins on hardware I just find it hard to believe (well not really) that they want to chisel another 99cents/month out of me. For gods sake take care of your loyal consumers and give them 20gb like everyone else does.