What I meant was single people, with no family, rarely get any "enhancements" to their product. We pay highest cost per phone line, no free Netflix, 99c for 50GB data, etc. I just want some love 🙁
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How to Sign Up for iCloud Family Storage Plans in iOS 11
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What I meant was single people, with no family, rarely get any "enhancements" to their product. We pay highest cost per phone line, no free Netflix, 99c for 50GB data, etc. I just want some love 🙁
Been using this since Tuesday for iPhoto libraries and iOS device backup for wife, son and I. Works a treat.
JRobinsonJr
macrumors 6502a
While I fully understand the sentiment, economy of scale exists in virtually every market... not just Apple's iCloud. Want to pay less per unit of purchase? Get married! Have kids. Join in with your sister's family. If that doesn't work, find a couple of also-single close friends that you trust and form a 'family'. You can always find a way to create your own small group of people that want to reduce their monthly expenses.
If you join family sharing, can you still pay for any app downloads with your own apple ID and credit card?
macduke
macrumors G5
It’s probably because when you start a family you make less money because now the money is divided between you and the kids. We have to clothe, feed, pay for lessons, insurance and copays, buy supplies and birthday/Christmas presents. As for iCloud, you are paying no more than $9.99/mo for 2TB (maybe even less if you only need 200GB) for iCloud but a family might have to pay $2.99/mo for six people to have 1.2TB for a total of $17.94/mo. So every little bit helps when we’re already paying nearly double for necessities. The majority of the people I know who never had kids have so much disposable income it’s practically unfair, lol. But I made this choice, and our society values those who start a family because it means our species will continue. So it’s good to incentivize procreation. If you’re still young and don’t want kids then just give it time because you’re quite likely to financially pass those of us with kids, lol.
Yes, but there might be apps I don’t want my kids to be able to download. Would be good if I could control it a bit.
I do have one question and wondering if anyone know the answer. What happen if I invite my wife to my iCloud storage sharing and that she already have data on her on icloud with similar storage plan? Will her data automatically move to use my icloud storage? Or she will have to start again?
I thought you had to have the same billing address, no?
I am sure that you have to be in the same country but I think also same address.
ugahairydawgs
macrumors 68040
Has anyone set this up yet? Does it offer the option of a shared folder for everyone in the family?
The data automatically moves from her individual account to the shared space on the family account. The organiser will see the newly arrived data taking up space. (Went through this exact process with my wife on Tuesday for her individual iCloud storage account to the family one organised by me)
Thanks Brenster, I have another question. After having done that, it is safe to cancel her subscription, right? Or is it automatically canceled?
The individual account doesn’t automatically cancel. We left the individual account in place for 24 hours or so then cancelled it. When the individual accepts the family invitation and opts into the family storage, they’ll get a message on their phone/iPad/mac saying that the individual account will continue until cancelled.
Juicy Box
macrumors 604
I do not believe that is what Blackstick was asking for.
I think families are looking for this type of scenario:
This seems simple enough, I don't understand why it is not an option.
I would like to have my whole family on an iCloud Family account that if any one of us takes a photo, the photo automatically can be accessed by everyone else. Essentially, a family shared photo library.
As far as I know, this is still not an option.
No. Th device that’s sets up th shared iCloud storage needs to be on iOS 11, all of the other devices can be left on 10. They can receive and accept shared storage invitations from the iOS 11 setup device.
JRobinsonJr
macrumors 6502a
Well... technically all you have to do is use the same credit card for the 'family'... which is why trust is such an important thing. Pick some friends whom you do trust and have a common credit card.
ugahairydawgs
macrumors 68040
When you set this up does Apple automatically add a shared folder that can be seen by everyone in the family (the same way they do with the shared calendar and shared photo album)?
ugahairydawgs
macrumors 68040
There is a way to hide them. I did this and I wish I remembered how. I did a search on how and it works. My wife and I don’t want my daughter seeing what we have lol.
Edit. Go into the App Store. Under your purchase, pick an app and swipe from the right side going left (it will say hide). This hides it from other family members.
I found this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/231715/ho...urchased-on-apples-app-store-and-google-play/
And this:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201322
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Raises privacy red flags to me. I often take photos of things that my wife will mention that she likes or wants while we're out (when she's not looking) so I can remember them later when buying gifts for an occasion. Or if I'm making her something for Christmas and taking pics of the progress to send other family members. Or when I was planning to propose to her, for example, and I was sending rings for opinions to her best friends and parents. Or perhaps you're out in separate places and you see something your kid might like for Christmas, snap a pic to get the wife or husband's ok. In every one of these scenarios, I don't want anyone else getting these photos that I don't hand select. Perhaps if there were an option of where to save a photo when you snap one?
Juicy Box
macrumors 604
I understand that being a concern, but it wouldn't be that you would be required to share a library. Even if you wanted to share a photo library with a family as I described from an earlier post, I am sure there could be a way to keep certain photos from being shared.
The current way of sharing for a family seems very dated to me.
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Also, I think the way that Apple handles photos in the Apple ecosystem is very dated, as it used to be better.
I know this is a little off topic, but if I had to pin point when it started going down hill was probably going from iPhoto to the Photo app on the Mac. One of many examples would be the lack of synching faces between devices. Why is this not automatic? It use to be with iPhoto..
I think I have read somewhere that in iOS 11 it will become automatic, but this seems to be a silly that it took that long.
Overall, I think that the way the Apple ecosystem handles photos has gotten less user friendly and less intuitive, all while removing simple and intuitive features.
Hopefully iCloud in iOS 11 will address some of these things.
Isn’t that what Photo Stream used to be? Until parents woke up to their Apple TV’s screen saver to see what junior was spending his college time on.