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With Apple One, iCloud Users Can Get Up to 4TB Storage
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I got the $29 bundle as I have 2 kids and a wife. We use family share and had 2tb apple storage before. Once I purchased the Premier package I cant seem to get my kids and wifes phone to show the purchase so they can up Apple Music and Apple TV. Any help/ideas?
Also not really interested as a student because I’m paying 5$ for Apple Music and TV+ is free for me until February. If I wouldn’t be a student I would definitely take the 15$ plan + 200gb. That would be just 8$ more for Arcade, TV+ and 50GB extra storage
So if I’m reading this right, if you have separate emails for iCloud and purchases you can’t go beyond 2tb? I can’t see an option to buy an additional 2tb to take my storage to 4tb?
I think I may have found a work around, though I’m not entirely sure.
On my iPad which has separate iCloud and Media accounts, I enabled Family Sharing. That kept the media account for purchases and my iCloud account as the manger. Both accounts were listed under my name in the family.
I could then add my media account to my family who shows up as a separate person.
At that point it looks like I can go and purchase iCloud storage in my media account and as long as it’s over 200 GB, I can share it with my “family” which includes my iCloud account. At that point, in theory, adding Apple One would add to the storage.
The downside is that I need to keep an old device around signed into iCloud on my media account if I want to cancel or upgrade storage.
I never like this idea because when I'm on the go I usually don't have internet connection and if I do it sucks. This is why I always wanted external storage on my iPad. SD or microSD to store my collections on. This is also why I wish that IOS devices had high speed DATA transfers. Since I don't have external storage I would have to decide which collection I want to watch the night before and hope it transfer correctly over night.
I am happy that when my 2TB plan fills up I can have up to 2TB more, but it's sooo expensive, first 2TB, 10€, the other 2 TB 30€ !!!!, 40€ for 4TB, while in google drive for 50€ you get 10TB. It's like double the price it should, but hey, if you are paying for Apple Music, not as a student, and watch some Apple TV+ or play some Arcade games from time to time, then it's not that expensive. But yea, they should add bigger iCloud Drive plans, not this trap.
you need to think about it a bit more... the only acceptable plan is premiere right? you don't think THEY know that? up sell, up sell, up sell.
the entire idea of combo plans is to offer discounts to people to use many services. if a user only uses one or two services it doesn't make sense to offer discounts... might as well just lower the price of the service at that point. the idea here is to encourage you to use more or ALL apple services and hope that a nice discount encourages you to do that when otherwise you wouldn't get the service at all. i'm an example of a person that apple one causes lost money for apple... i ALREADY had everything so I'm saving a lot of money and they lose that money. what does apple want? people to spend MORE by feeling they are getting a deal.
When you start thinking of storage being in the cloud rather than on local drives, 2TB is not even enough. All of my Mac and iPad’s files are in iCloud and everything is interchangeable. I have photos in my Photos app going back to 2001. I’m at 1.5TB in and it’s just me, no family. Likely going to upgrade to 4TB soon.
I was able to get it to work. You have to log in to your iPhone with iCloud account that you use for purchases (not the iCloud account that you use for email and iCloud storage) and purchase Apple One with 2 tb storage. Then you go to iCloud settings and click on manage storage. This will give you the option to add 2 TB additional storage. Once you have the 4 TB storage on your account, you go to family sharing and share your iCloud storage with your other iCloud account. You can then log in to your iPhone with your other iCloud account and it will have the 4 TB storage.
On Homekit Secure Video... I just spoke with AppleCare. Take this with a grain of salt as it seems no one there really knows what HSV is, but they seemed to find info that said that if you combine the 2TB under Apple One and 2TB as a standalone iCloud storage account under the same Apple ID, you are still limited to 5 cameras. To get more cameras storing to HSV, your additional iCloud account needs to be under a different Apple ID. So I guess if you bifurcate between your regular Apple ID (email, messages, etc) and the App Store that could work. But would you get a unified iCloud storage space? Apple Care didn't think so...
I signed up today.
I had nearly a month of Apple Music, about three months of Arcade, and the three-month gratis extension of AppleTV+... and a couple hours later they charged me the full $29.95 with no pro-rating for anything.
Overall I am not going to pick a fight over about $15, but it does bug me.
I had nearly a month of Apple Music, about three months of Arcade, and the three-month gratis extension of AppleTV+... and a couple hours later they charged me the full $29.95 with no pro-rating for anything.
Overall I am not going to pick a fight over about $15, but it does bug me.
I also prepaid Apple Music in August. Talked with Apple support, and I will get a refund once I sign up for Apple One. The exact amount is a bit in question. There is a free 30 day trial, but since I already subscribe to News+, 2 TB, and music it is a bit unclear how the charges will work out. I would think that the refund, and the cancelling of the other charges, should happen in about 60 days.
Finally showed up to me to sign up.
If you go into settings and look at your account, it only shows AppleOne and not the other services I had separately.
If you go into settings and look at your account, it only shows AppleOne and not the other services I had separately.
I signed up earlier today. When I did I was immediately refunded my Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and 2tb storage charges I'd paid a few days prior. I'd check with your bank or credit card and see if you've been refunded.
fair enough, a family of six is a bit far from my plans, I also take very few pictures let alone videos, even so 4TB cloud storage sounds crazy ha, cheers to you
Let me make sure I understand this correctly. If I’m currently paying for 2TB of iCloud storage, and I subscribe to the Apple One Premier package my current storage plan will cancel and I will continue to get 2TB of iCloud storage in addition to all the services?
Done! This was news I was waiting for. I have a family plan that's way too small to have 5 phones and tablets backing up to iCloud. This makes it a bit easier for my entire fam to back up to the cloud and be done with it.
Good job Apple.
Good job Apple.