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Please help me understand icloud
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:17 am
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:17 am
So, my phone tells me I am running out of storage. Can't I simply upload photos and video to the cloud then delete them from my phone? If so, how do I do this and how do I retrieve them. Thanks.
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Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:32 am to Janky
Pay 99 cents a month for 50gb storage. I know, I know, Apple wins, but all notifications go away about iCloud space issues
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:47 am to MintBerry Crunch
I am not running out of iCloud storage, I am running out of storage on my phone.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 9:05 am to Janky
This may help you understand the initial response:
Use your iCloud space (the 50Gb) so you can back the phone photos to iCloud and leave them there, too. Once the photos are on icloud, only, they will no longer be on your phone hogging space. You should still be able to view and access the old photos and, if need be, and even download them back to your phone again. But for 99% of those old photos, you'll just set them aside in the cloud.. The photos will hog the cloud storage space, not your phone memory.
Then one day you'll run out of 50Gb space, and you can pay apple more. Or, if smart, simply start deleting unwanted photos. Or, if you must hoard photos and don't want to pay, then backup the old photos to a master backup, like a hard drive (physical or cloud based).
I recommend picking one storage method and keeping with it, even if it costs you more in the long run. Eventually, having a bunch of files stored across multiple cloud services and/or physical devices becomes clutter, and frustrating.
Use your iCloud space (the 50Gb) so you can back the phone photos to iCloud and leave them there, too. Once the photos are on icloud, only, they will no longer be on your phone hogging space. You should still be able to view and access the old photos and, if need be, and even download them back to your phone again. But for 99% of those old photos, you'll just set them aside in the cloud.. The photos will hog the cloud storage space, not your phone memory.
Then one day you'll run out of 50Gb space, and you can pay apple more. Or, if smart, simply start deleting unwanted photos. Or, if you must hoard photos and don't want to pay, then backup the old photos to a master backup, like a hard drive (physical or cloud based).
I recommend picking one storage method and keeping with it, even if it costs you more in the long run. Eventually, having a bunch of files stored across multiple cloud services and/or physical devices becomes clutter, and frustrating.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 10:37 am to geauxchaz
Right, but how do I go about seeing the photos once they are off my phone and in the cloud?
Posted on 6/5/16 at 10:44 am to geauxchaz
Who is in charge of the cloud and where exactly is it? How do you know what exists in the cloud? I never dump stuff into the cloud because no one can answer those questions for me.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 10:49 am to Janky
Small previews are stored on your phone. Once you click on them iCloud quickly downloads the full res version of the photo for you to view. This is how it prevents your phone memory from being hogged.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 10:50 am to Janky
iCloud.com. You can sign into the cloud and see your photos.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 1:42 pm to VABuckeye
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iCloud.com. You can sign into the cloud and see your photos.
If you have another apple device under the same iCloud account you can just check photos to see if it has backed up.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 1:52 pm to VABuckeye
I sign in and it takes me to Apple.com to buy stuff. I don't see where I can go see my pictures.
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 3:20 pm to Janky
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I sign in and it takes me to Apple.com to buy stuff. I don't see where I can go see my pictures.
You should start at this login screen...
Once you log in you should get to this tiled menu...
And it should be that simple
Posted on 6/5/16 at 3:30 pm to geauxchaz
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I recommend picking one storage method and keeping with it, even if it costs you more in the long run. Eventually, having a bunch of files stored across multiple cloud services and/or physical devices becomes clutter, and frustrating.
I agree with this to an extent, but I keep my files stored across 3 or 4 services and it works because It maximizes the amount of storage I have. Like I keep presentations in dropbox, other files in google drive, photos passively stored on iCloud, and my projects on github. The way terminal works makes it dead simple to find any file I need to work on.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 6:48 pm to bengri33
Yeah, I don't see that at all.
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:06 pm to Janky
Do you have iTunes installed on the computer?
Posted on 6/5/16 at 7:08 pm to VABuckeye
I am working with an iPhone and a iPad. I am about load a pic of what I get.
What I see
What I see
This post was edited on 6/5/16 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 6/5/16 at 11:04 pm to 4LSU2
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Who is in charge of the cloud and where exactly is it?
Specifically referring to iCloud, that would be Apple. I believe they used to outsource to Microsoft but they built a big data center in North Carolina several years back and recently started working on expanding to data centers in Nevada and Oregon as well.
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How do you know what exists in the cloud?
Apps and web pages tell you this.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:09 am to Janky
In addition to icloud, Verizon offers its cloud interface to its customers. I would recommend backing your excess gigs on Verizon's Cloud and taking the necessary steps in backing up everything you have stored on your phone on an external hard drive. Thus, all your important data will be saved 3 separate times.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:39 am to Breauxsif
Then on the iPad and search through the photos app to see if the photos from the phone are there. Then go into the photos settings on the phone and select iPhone storage (which should leave only a thumbnail on the device). Deleting an image deletes it from the iCloud Photo Library, so delete only the photos you wish to remove. If the photos aren't on the iPad go into the photos settings and enable the iCloud Photo Library and do the same on the iPad.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 6:54 am to bengri33
So, once they are loaded in the cloud I cannot delete them from my phone without the pics being deleted from the cloud too?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 6:56 am to Janky
To do what you want to do you have to login to iCloud on a PC or Mac. An iPad or iPhone will not do what you want to do.
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