Phil Schiller Talks 16 GB iPhones and Thinness vs Battery Life Tradeoffs

[SteveW928]

Over the last few months, I've had two family members that ran into that situation.

What they ended up doing was upgrading their iCloud storage to 20GB (for US$0.99/month) and enabling iCloud Photo Library, which freed up a significant chunk of space on their 16GB devices.

Now they're "amazed" that they can see/edit/organize all of their photos on a web browser on any computer via www.icloud.com that I doubt they'll upgrade to a 64GB iPhone next time around and will just keep with iCloud Photo Library instead.

Just be sure they back that up really well somehow. Apple's cloud track record is pretty bad.

Also, unless they've fixed it, Apple's cloud photo capability is limited to the smallest device's storage on the OSX side, as it syncs everything.

 

[aristobrat]

Just be sure they back that up really well somehow. Apple's cloud track record is pretty bad.

Also, unless they've fixed it, Apple's cloud photo capability is limited to the smallest device's storage on the OSX side, as it syncs everything.

They must have fixed that. Photos on OS X currently has an "Optimize Mac Storage" option, which says "Store full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud. Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough storage space." Sounds like OS X storage isn't a limiting factor.

 

[SteveW928]

They must have fixed that. Photos on OS X currently has an "Optimize Mac Storage" option, which says "Store full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud. Originals will also be stored on this Mac if you have enough storage space." Sounds like OS X storage isn't a limiting factor.

Ok, I guess that's better than it was. I'd still *much* rather have it be my picking what gets stored locally... but I suppose that kind of works.