Are you paying for iCloud?

[maflynn]

I saw the email in my inbox this morning, and yup, my storage is now 5gb. Since I'm only using 2gb, I have no problems with the storage reduction.

 

[rocknblogger]

They do

Not according to Apple

When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5 GB of free storage for Backup, Documents, and Mail. Your purchased music, movies, apps, books, TV shows, and Photo Stream don’t count against your free storage. If you need more storage space, you can upgrade to a larger 15 GB, 25 GB, or 55 GB storage plan for your iCloud account.

 

[GreyOS]

photostream != photos (camera roll)

 

[OllyW]

Not according to Apple

Photo stream doesn't cover your whole photo library, only recent ones. They are deleted from your photo stream after 30 days.

If you backup your photo library it uses space from your iCloud storage allowance. My iCloud photo backup was using over 8GB so I had to switch it off to stay within the 5GB.

 

[unplugme71]

iCloud expired (free extension)

Got the email that my free iCloud extension expired. Anyone maintaining their paid upgrade?

 

[Bear]

Who's keeping the 25gb, or downgrading?

As it does not effect itunes match, just email, backups and documents, I personally think 10gb is enough and at £14/year I think it's a great piece of mind for my idevices

Anyone elses thoughts?

I use iTunes to backup my iOS devices so I'm not using much space. Currently well under 1 GB.

I'll let it go down, I only use it for mail and some light documents. Too many competitors offer free storage like dropbox.

If I needed the space I'd pay for it. I don't want the hassle of managing multiple cloud solutions. Maybe if I needed a lot of space I'd look at one of the other cloud services. Also, how long can those business provide free services and stay in business?

My complimentary upgrade has ended with iCloud, I ask you all if you are in my boat and are going to continue paying for it or are switching to the 5gb free.

5GB as I don't need more. When you look at it, it's not much money for the extra storage if you need it.

 

[Nautilus007]

Personally I have unloaded all my photos to dropbox

 

[rocknblogger]

Photo stream doesn't cover your whole photo library, only recent ones. They are deleted from your photo stream after 30 days.

If you backup your photo library it uses space from your iCloud storage allowance. My iCloud photo backup was using over 8GB so I had to switch it off to stay within the 5GB.

I guess in my mind that's what we were discussing (photo stream).

 

[octatonic]

I paid, will monitor for a year but might reduce to 5GB.

 

[tawcat]

I only need a place to store docs and photos and have access to them wherever I might be. I am using Dropbox, but the little bit of space they give you free gets filled up quickly and I just think $100 a year is a bit much.

Not sure iCloud is a better option, there again it's a paid for service.

Photobucket and the like are only good for photos and some video.

Any suggestions?

 

[roadbloc]

Don't actually use iCloud so I'll let it go. Shame iCloud could never store stuff like iDisk could. I'll probably be sticking to SkyDrive.

 

[George Knighton]

They up and charged me for the 10GB service, which was a pretty logical decision on their part.

Can't really complain about it.

Never got anywhere near the 25GB that I originally had.

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Don't actually use iCloud so I'll let it go. Shame iCloud could never store stuff like iDisk could. I'll probably be sticking to SkyDrive.

I agree with you there. I'd love to be able to store things as easily as other services, simple drag and drop across multiple machines, automatic sync and no manipulation of proprietary file names.

 

[emseven]

A regular Camera Roll workflow and deletion of unnecessary Messages will keep anyone below 5GB.

 

[patent10021]

Photo stream doesn't cover your whole photo library, only recent ones. They are deleted from your photo stream after 30 days.

If you backup your photo library it uses space from your iCloud storage allowance. My iCloud photo backup was using over 8GB so I had to switch it off to stay within the 5GB.

this is what happened to me. I couldn't backup to icloud because icloud photo backup on my phone was putting me at 9GB. I can't backup my phone to icloud unless I turn off the icloud photo backup option. Im afraid to turn it off because it will delete the photos from iPhone right? If my photos are safe how can I back them up? Only by importing them into iPhoto? Even though I turn off icloud photo backups on my iPhone can I stream my entire iPhoto library to my iPhone? How can I view my entire iPhoto library on my iPhone if I turn off icloud photo backups on my iPhone?

 

[macgrl]

No I use dropbox for big stuff...don't even come close to using the 5gb to be fair

 

[maflynn]

Shame iCloud could never store stuff like iDisk could.

Agreed, but even so iDisk was painfully slow as well. I've found more efficient solutions and while I still use iCloud for documents, emails, etc, I'm well under the free quota.

 

[S.B.G]

I used iDisk somewhat, but when that went away I switched to Dropbox and I don't use iCloud Storage for anything.