Other Best way to disable iCloud totally or mostly?

[max2]

I really do not need it anymore unless you can suggest to me why it is useful to have. Thanks.

 

[0128672]

iCloud provides an automatic backup of your device data, allows sharing of iCloud app data across devices, and can free up storage space. Best way to find out if you need it is to do a full Finder backup of your device(s) to your computer and then turn it off.

 

[BigMcGuire]

Since you're inviting us to suggest why it is useful --- I come from using Dropbox, Google Drive, and then OneDrive for years and years. I settled on iCloud cuz it works well with my Apple Devices. I have a family and together we're all using 330GB of data - so I pay for the 2TB plan anyway so that my wife, her mother, and I can have iCloud Storage to backup all of our Apple devices to, store all of our photos, and house all of our data. It's super convenient when it comes to iMessages, backups, photos, and data.

IMO iCloud Backups are far superior to iTunes backups because - time saved. Having my photos instantly backup to iCloud is worth it - especially when I'm out and about taking photos I want saved the instant I take them. Same applies to my wife and my mother in law.

With iCloud Photos optimized storage - I can have access to all of my 53,000 photos and videos - while only taking up 9GB of space on my iPhone - I take a photo and it is instantly accessible on my iPad and MacBook.

My wife is doing her PhD and stores all her data in iCloud - so I moved my 150GB of data to iCloud and it has been pretty good. I still use OneDrive for work and my PC but iCloud on my personal PC works amazingly well (syncs my latest photos there too).

 

[max2]

iCloud provides an automatic backup of your device data, allows sharing of iCloud app data across devices, and can free up storage space.

Thanks I want to try an experiment by disabling iCloud all together

 

[BigMcGuire]

Thanks I want to try an experiment by disabling iCloud all together

I'd probably go to Settings --> iCloud and start ticking off all those tabs - start with Photos. Make sure you don't have any photos in iCloud to lose (it'll give you the option to download them if you do). That's a lot of checkboxes to tick especially if you have a lot of applications.

 

[ericwn]

Thanks I want to try an experiment by disabling iCloud all together

Why?

 

[Fred Zed]

OP. Good method as to not eventually be completely tied into the I-garden ecosystem. I have most things on iCloud except for photos .