Good for you Apple !
Thanks a lot. That is the best post in the whole thread. A great workaround For people with huge libraries.
As the saying goes, “if you can’t figure out what the product is, it’s because it’s you”.
You can do Apple One and then add 2TB on top of it making 4TB the max. I agree they should have more options though, particularly if you share the space with family.
Hopefully the more storage means that the free tier will be 50gb.
I find it very useful to have access to all my photos on my devices. Very frequently when I am at a friends place for dinner or drinks a conversation comes up about a trip from years past or a restaurant or a group activity etc. and in less than a minute I am usually able to show them a photo or more about the topic under discussion. Just my opinion of course.
I mean, yes. You have to do the extra step of backing it up using a cable to a computer but you can set the target directory as something on cloud storage and toss your nice encrypted iPhone backup up there automatically every time you back it up
**** them. Good. Now I won’t ever lose any videos because I’ll get back into the habit of connecting my iPhone to my Mac often and sync everything the old-school way. Or maybe I’ll get into the habit of manually syncing them via WiFi if that is still an option, we’ll see. Maybe I’ll even create some AppleScript or shortcut that opens Photos.app periodically to ensure that happens. I’m very happy with my enterprise OneDrive/SharePoint account and I’m not paying Apple a single cent for their overpriced cloud storage.
Apple's "My Photo Stream" service is set to shut down on July 26, 2023, which means customers who are still using that feature will need to transition to using iCloud Photos prior to that date.
My Photo Stream is a free service that uploads the last 30 days of images (up to 1,000) to iCloud, making them accessible on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. It predates iCloud Photos and has largely been replaced by the iCloud Photos service at this point.
Going forward, Apple plans to have all customers use iCloud Photos instead of My Photo Stream. New photo uploads to My Photo Stream will stop on June 26, 2023, and images will remain in iCloud as usual for 30 days until the shutdown point.
Because all of the images in My Photo Stream are stored in their original format on at least one Apple device, there isn't a danger of photos being lost as part of the shutdown process. Apple recommends that users who want to have their images on a particular device save them to the Photo Library on that device prior to July 26.
Images in My Photo Stream can be saved to the Photos app on the iPhone by opening up Photos, going to the My Photo Stream album, selecting individual photos, and using the Share button to save them to the Library. The process is the same on the Mac, but you will need to drag images from My Photo Stream to the Library.
Apple suggests that iPhone, iPad, and Mac users turn on iCloud Photos to view their photos and videos across their devices. iCloud Photos is available on iPhones and iPads running iOS 8.3 or later and Macs running OS X Yosemite or later.
Article Link: Apple's 'My Photo Stream' Service Shutting Down in July 2023
I’m just telling you what I have personally seen several times. It just seems strange that it goes straight from 5 to 50. For one dollar. So by that math it would increase the price of the device by twenty cents. I think it’s worth it.
why are you calculating only by one month? device is going to live for at least 5, but your storage account lives for life even after you dump your iPhone for Android. we're talking 10+ years. even those that left iPhone 10+ years ago will get double the storage.
Go where there is free Wi-Fi.Oh, great. Not only do I now have to upgrade my iCloud storage to 2TB to be able to store *all* my photos (since I can't tell it to only do a subset, as far as I know), but my internet data cap will be *killed* as my computer tries to upload everything at once.
Talk about an expensive change
