iCloud Photos Question

[bumbo]

I currently have iCloud Photos enabled and have some shared iCloud Photo albums with my partner.

My iCloud space is filling up and I'm currently deciding if I should move things onto my Dropbox account and disable Photos, or if I close my Dropbox account, upgrade my iCloud storage and move my DB files onto iCloud.

If I move away from iCloud and onto Dropbox, will I keep the shared photo albums I currently have?

 

[mritech]

You’re asking for trouble and having you’re stuff in separate places and picking and choosing. Buy the extra iCloud storage. The convenience is so worth it.

I have the 200 my wife had the 50 so that was 4 a month, now she has the 200 so now it’s 6 a month on separate plans the next person to run out will make it get a single 2TB plan as it’s the next option and share the space with family share

 

[0970373]

To answer your main question - yes, shared albums will remain if you move all photos to Dropbox. This article should help: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786



But definitely think about this before you decide to nuke iCloud Photos. Assuming you are already paying the $99 annual or $9.99 monthly, iCloud gives you double that storage for the same price. Or if you're like most, even 1TB is too much and the 200GB @ $2.99/mo is more than enough. Maybe the 50GB @ .99 is enough to keep your photos in iCloud.

It really depends open what you use Dropbox for but in my instance, I moved everything to iCloud and dropped down to the free Dropbox account. I need it to share things for work sometimes but otherwise, iCloud works very well if you're in the Apple ecosystem. The convenience is so worth it.

 

[bumbo]

Thanks for the replies guys. Think I'm going to move my DB down to the free tier and bump up my iCloud. Seems like the best all round solution, and I can share the storage.