Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

icloud photo storage?

mattopotamus

mattopotamus

macrumors G5
Original poster
Jun 12, 2012
14,917
6,730
I think I am right about this, but just want to be 100% sure before I buy into drop box storage vs icloud storage.

There is no such thing as true photo backups on icloud right? I know it can keep 1000 photos in your photos stream or photo's currently in your camera roll (meaning you would need to keep the photos always on your phone). In other words, there is no way to pay for icloud storage and have it work like dropbox. I cannot remove the photos from my camera roll and just leave them "in the cloud."

I know I can unload the photos to a separate hard drive, but I want a cloud storage that can actually store my photos without having to leave them in my camera roll.

Is that correct, or did I miss something?

TIA.
 
That sounds correct to me. I think your understanding of iCloud is spot on. It is more for backup and syncing, not storage.
 
mattopotamus said:
I think I am right about this, but just want to be 100% sure before I buy into drop box storage vs icloud storage.

There is no such thing as true photo backups on icloud right? I know it can keep 1000 photos in your photos stream or photo's currently in your camera roll (meaning you would need to keep the photos always on your phone). In other words, there is no way to pay for icloud storage and have it work like dropbox. I cannot remove the photos from my camera roll and just leave them "in the cloud."

I know I can unload the photos to a separate hard drive, but I want a cloud storage that can actually store my photos without having to leave them in my camera roll.

Is that correct, or did I miss something?

TIA.
Click to expand...
Yeah, it's correct. Apple clearly states in a few places that PhotoStream is not a backup solution. If you care about your photos, I would have more than one backup - a local one on disk and a cloud one would be one way of doing that.

Nolander07 said:
That sounds correct to me. I think your understanding of iCloud is spot on. It is more for backup and syncing, not storage.
Click to expand...
If you mean iOS device backup, yes.
 
It is not a good backup solution for photos in my opinion.

However, you can store photos permanently in a shared photo stream. You can create 100 shared photo streams with up to 5,000 photos per stream. These photos do NOT count against your iCloud storage limit.
 
BaldiMac said:
It is not a good backup solution for photos in my opinion.

However, you can store photos permanently in a shared photo stream. You can create 100 shared photo streams with up to 5,000 photos per stream. These photos do NOT count against your iCloud storage limit.
Click to expand...

ahh the ninja route. I did not know this and could almost treat each stream as an album.
 
BaldiMac said:
It is not a good backup solution for photos in my opinion.

However, you can store photos permanently in a shared photo stream. You can create 100 shared photo streams with up to 5,000 photos per stream. These photos do NOT count against your iCloud storage limit.
Click to expand...

This is literally what I'm trying to sort at the moment. Syncing automatically between Mac, iPhone and iPad is a nightmare. The streams seem to be the best way at the moment but requires so much manual work.

If I create a photo stream on one device, does that stream automatically take up space on another device? Or only when I view them?
 
179202 said:
This is literally what I'm trying to sort at the moment. Syncing automatically between Mac, iPhone and iPad is a nightmare. The streams seem to be the best way at the moment but requires so much manual work.

If I create a photo stream on one device, does that stream automatically take up space on another device? Or only when I view them?
Click to expand...

I don't think photo stream takes up any storage on the devices. It is truly in the cloud.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back