iCloud Storage Plan Sharing question

[polbit]

I tried asking two different Apple customer reps, and got two different answers... Maybe somebody here has a better answer?

I currently have a Family sharing set up with my wife, but we both have separate 200Gb iCloud plans. I want to upgrade to the 2Tb shared plan, but I need to know what happens with my wife's data/media when she joins the new plan. Does she have to back everything up again, or does it copy over automatically?

 

[pj-uk]

I've got exactly the same question here and would be interested in when we "merge" data under the same iCloud subscription. I'm a bit wary of her joining the family account and then cancelling her 200GB subscription only to lose all the data stored in her icloud.

 

[lie2me]

Copying files back and forth would be easier to deal with on a Mac computer.
Just saying

 

[splifingate]

I tried asking two different Apple customer reps, and got two different answers... Maybe somebody here has a better answer?

I currently have a Family sharing set up with my wife, but we both have separate 200Gb iCloud plans. I want to upgrade to the 2Tb shared plan, but I need to know what happens with my wife's data/media when she joins the new plan. Does she have to back everything up again, or does it copy over automatically?

My s/o was having daily "cannot backup to iCloud" alerts/issues, so we decided (I convinced her) to share the same 2-tb iCloud.

She just had to accept the invitation to join, and it was a seamless transition.

afaik, all her data (which was not much, apart from the iP/iPd backups) was instantly available in our Family iCloud.

I can/could see her name, and the storage space used, but that's it. Shared CC ("Be gentle, please.").

Easy-Peasy.

I had far too many un-answered questions (I was supposed to be the "know how to do it" tech guy, so was gana have to answer when the bits hit the fan) . . . with the dearth of details provided by AAPL/sites in-general, it certainly took a certain leap of faith to pull all those triggers

Regards, splifingate