Trying to Understand iCloud Photo Storage

[vision63]

Amazon Photos will allow you upload unlimited "photos" to it's cloud if you have Prime. Not videos. Just 5gb for that.

[graylocks]

vision63 wrote:
Amazon Photos will allow you upload unlimited "photos" to it's cloud if you have Prime. Not videos. Just 5gb for that.

That's something I didn't know. Hmmm, I think he's listed on my prime account. I look into that.

[$tevie]

My husband has thousands and thousands and thousands of photos so he pays his 99 cents a month and will never delete a single pic until the day they tell him he's out of room.
You don't have to delete the pics from the phone. The whole point is that the photos you "see" on the phone are lo-res, but if you go to email one or text it to someone iCloud sends down the original. This means your phone can "hold" many many gigs of "photos".
It's been working fine for my husband and I see no reason not to do it.

[Harbourmaster]

Tell him to buy a new phone with more storage. Problem solved.

[vision63]

For the time being, check out the pros and cons of "Optimise Photos" in the iPhone settings. I've been meaning to fully check out how Apple implements this feature.

Settings

General

iPhone Storage

Enable "Optimise Photos"

It should reduce quite a bit.

The photos are still stored on iCloud and the phone photos are replaced with smaller versions. When you want to do something with the photos it "should" retrieve original seamlessly.

If you don't do the Optimise feature, anything he deletes from his iPhone also gets deleted in iCloud.

[graylocks]

Harbourmaster wrote:
Tell him to buy a new phone with more storage. Problem solved.

that’s probably what he would think is easiest but i’d have to listen to him grouse for the next X amount of time till he could afford it. and it doesn’t solve the problem just kicks the can down the road.

i explained iCloud as his least expensive path of least resistance. it’s his call time. when he complains i’llremind him he has a solution.

[Mike Sellers]

I didn't realize that deleting photos from my phone also deleted them from iCloud until a couple of years ago. Good thing I also regularly download them to my computer AND also backup to Amazon every once in a while. Could have been a disaster.

[Sam3]

vision63 wrote:
For the time being, check out the pros and cons of "Optimise Photos" in the iPhone settings. I've been meaning to fully check out how Apple implements this feature.

Settings

General

iPhone Storage

Enable "Optimise Photos"

It should reduce quite a bit.

The photos are still stored on iCloud and the phone photos are replaced with smaller versions. When you want to do something with the photos it "should" retrieve original seamlessly.

If you don't do the Optimise feature, anything he deletes from his iPhone also gets deleted in iCloud.

^^^This is important!
Don't delete photos on the phone hoping to save space, you WILL lose them completely.
iCloud Photos is a sync service with a backup feature, NOT a backup service.

[d4]

graylocks wrote:
The real issue is that he does not care enough to do that work himself.

Damn. Sometimes it takes a disaster for an adult to want to change their own behavior. This man will learn the hard way soon enough. Haven't we all been there?

There is a 3-year, black hole of time in my early adult life where I have no photos or digital memories of. My hard drive died with no backup. Never again.

[graylocks]

d4 wrote:
Damn. Sometimes it takes a disaster for an adult to want to change their own behavior. This man will learn the hard way soon enough. Haven't we all been there?

There is a 3-year, black hole of time in my early adult life where I have no photos or digital memories of. My hard drive died with no backup. Never again.

so true. i've pretty much taken the approach that unless it's something that might kill him, my job as a parent at this point is to give him information but then step back and let natural consequences play out.