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iPhone 11 Pro iCloud Storage is Full!!! STOP WITH THIS!

SR 7 said:
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4) Don't shove an ADVERTISEMENT on my phone. Why is that NOT an okay option? You lease a car with 7,500 miles a year...do you get a POP UP NOTIFICATION 25x a day about 10,000 miles a year? No. Didn't think so.

Funny how this ADVERTISEMENT didn't exist previously and you guys were okay with it.
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Oh good grief. Either buy more space or free some up. If anything was at the top of the list of "First world problems", then it's this.

Unsure if you've noticed yet, but sympathy here for your "predicament" is all but non-existent. I wonder why...

And what on earth are you taking about with the "lack" of advertisement?

In the meantime Acronis is now constantly whining about me being at 70% capacity on my cloud account. Not seeing me here creating a thread about that...

My solution is to move to another solution when my contract is up. It's that simple.
 
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trigonometry said:
OP has a point but the reason they continue to display the pop up is to prevent you from losing data. So if you don’t care about losing data then turn off iCloud.
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Agreed, I don't see it as advertisement at all but a : "Your cloud storage is full... thus this is not saving all of your data off site. If your phone dies, gets destroyed, gets run over by a car... you will have data loss."
 
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SR 7 said:
Apple will start having Ads in between your text messages and will require you to pay so you don't have to wait for ads and these guys will say "just pay its cool."
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Apples next product...iPhone comes with a FREE Charger...but it only charges 50% of your phone...to get the remaining 50% pay $10 a month and if you don't, then we will constantly interrupt your charge so it takes longer to charge.

Or...

they'll ship your items half way across the country, it'll stop just short of the location and you'll get a pop up ad on your phone that says pay $5 to complete your shipping!
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The free iCloud storage is nothing like the examples you have mentioned lol.

Your situation is like when you get a 14 day free trial to something, nearing the 14 days you’ll be notified of it coming to the end so you can either pay to stay on or cancel your free trial. Simple
 
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^I mean, not really, b/c if you let the trial end, you don’t get the alerts any longer (as you’re no longer using the service). I am sympathetic to the plight of folks like the OP, insofar as they want to use the service, stay just under the 5GB limit, and not have to deal with the constant prompts to upgrade.

(I personally am nowhere near the limit, b/c I don’t use iCloud Photos. I download my photos to my Mac every so often, and my Mac is backed up.)
 
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mpavilion said:
^I mean, not really, b/c if you let the trial end, you don’t get the alerts any longer (as you’re no longer using the service). I am sympathetic to the plight of folks like the OP, insofar as they want to use the service, stay just under the 5GB limit, and not have to deal with the constant prompts to upgrade.

(I personally am nowhere near the limit, b/c I don’t use iCloud Photos. I download my photos to my Mac every so often, and my Mac is backed up.)
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Sometimes things work the way I have mentioned, just commenting though as it’s funny how fired up OP is over this
 
iCorz87 said:
Sometimes things work the way I have mentioned, just commenting though as it’s funny how fired up OP is over this
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Cue obligatory XKCD:

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I wouldn’t call it an advertisement. It’s a notification saying your phone’s data is no longer being backed up which is a fairly important thing to know. 5 GB of data is nothing. No one in 2020 can backup all their phone’s data with 5 gigabyte. Apple needs to increase that when they get around to overhauling iCloud. Even in 2011 5 GB was nothing storage wise Now it’s less than nothing. I pay for 2 TB because I have a large photo/video library. I would probably turn it off completely if I was going to only keep the 5 GB of storage and find other means of backing up my data so I don’t get the storage full notification.
 
Hmm, wondering what does the OP store in iCloud?

Also, I believe one can simply opt out of iCloud and simply use iTunes locally for backup, so this shouldn't be an issue imo.
 
ian87w said:
Hmm, wondering what does the OP store in iCloud?

Also, I believe one can simply opt out of iCloud and simply use iTunes locally for backup, so this shouldn't be an issue imo.
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It’s not an issue unless one wants to make it an issue. Some people would rather moan than get a solution that fits their needs.
 
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iCorz87 said:
The free iCloud storage is nothing like the examples you have mentioned lol.

Your situation is like when you get a 14 day free trial to something, nearing the 14 days you’ll be notified of it coming to the end so you can either pay to stay on or cancel your free trial. Simple
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uhh the guy telling me my example is nothing like the icloud storage gives me an example that is nothing like the icloud storage. lol.

When the 14 days is up, you no longer have access to that "free service" whereas we still do have access because its free 5 GB. For years we didn't have an advertisement but all of a sudden we have it and most, as usual take it.

Same people that said "ApPlE DoEsN'T SLoW pHoNES doWn" or "ThE iPhONe dOesN'T hAvE a BatTeRy IsSue" then 2 years later Apple says oh BTW, those batteries are defective, there is a recall...considering 50% of the people already upgrading due to the damaged battery.
 
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Go get an Android phone. Your like my ex, always digging up the past. They slowed down old phones so they didn't act like an android phone when the battery was almost done. You know, when your doing something on your Samsung phone, and then it just shuts off when you had 50% battery left. If anything, you could be pissy with Apple for using a subpar battery supplier. Probably the same folks who were powering Android devices lol.
 
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Yo, why trippin’ bro? It’s like keeping your phone‘s battery at 1% and getting upset about the low battery warnings. The message is simply a warning that something bad is happening or about to happen.
 
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SR 7 said:
How the hell do you turn this **** off? BRO I DON'T NEED A REMINDER EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!! ITS SO DAMN ANNOYING!

IT POPS UP ON LOCK SCREEN, ON EVERY UNLOCK, ON EVERY APP. JEEZ YOU THIRSTY ASS APPLE BRO IF I WANT IT ILL UPGRADE IT!
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The free iCloud storage is basically for email and messenger. If you want to use it for phone backup, you have to upgrade. If you don’t, turn off icloud backup and do it on a computer.
 
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freeagent said:
Go get an Android phone. Your like my ex, always digging up the past. They slowed down old phones so they didn't act like an android phone when the battery was almost done. You know, when your doing something on your Samsung phone, and then it just shuts off when you had 50% battery left. If anything, you could be pissy with Apple for using a subpar battery supplier. Probably the same folks who were powering Android devices lol.
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And nobody is bringing up the blasting galaxy S7 situation while comparing with the past. I’ve given up with this kind of arguments with people.
 
The free iCloud was enough for me when I had just the one Apple device. It wasn’t when I got a Mac mini as well, because I like the convenience of keeping things synchronised. So I upgraded to the 200GB.

I don’t see myself filling that 200GB up, because it’s not the only cloud service I use (I also use OneDrive and Sync.com). Each serves its purpose for me.

Cloud services have a purpose. If you want to use them more than the free allowance, you pay.

iCloud isn’t alone in its “pop ups”. I also have a free Dropbox account (I was paid, but switched to elsewhere). And if that gets within even a whiff of reaching its limits, the “reminders” become interminable - such that I can’t use the full allocation due to the endless annoyances of the reminders. I guess this is what iCloud and, presumably, all other cloud services do as well. They’re not going to change that.
 
I tend to agree... Apple’s nags since iOS 9 have become more and more annoying. The iCloud screen, the iOS updates screen, Apple constantly downloading iOS updates in the background. If I say no to an update one, two, three times, I will say no the fourth and the fifth time. But no, Apple will keep downloading it indefinitely. Same with iCloud. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s annoying.
 
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Namara said:
wouldn't you simply turn off automatic updates?
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That just disables automatic installation of updates. It still checks for, downloads and nags you to update.
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mnsportsgeek said:
Now that I look at the tiers, it's a bit disappointing that there isn't something between $3 and $10 a month.
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Me, too. Would've preferred a $4.99/500GB option in lieu of the current $2.99/200GB.
 
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