iCloud EXPLAINED! Here's what you need to know!

[@zorikn]

I'm watching this video in complete awe of how good you are at explaining things. You have a combination of patience, intelligence, and clarity that's just out of this world.

[@ProperHonestTech]

That's very kind of you

[@BigBee123]

He lives up to his name :)

[@Iko.runningtog]

I'm a long time Apple user who randomly stumbled on this video and I can't believe how useful it has been! I didn't know about the "Remove download" feature. Could have saved me a lot of headache all these years. Many thanks mate!

[@djross95]

I'm pretty good with tech, but I have always found iCloud far more confusing that (say) Google Drive or OneDrive. This was a really excellent, informative video that cleared up a lot of my questions. Well done, sir!

[@jemand8462]

to be fair, icloud is much more then just a cloud for files though. If you use multiple Apple devices, Icloud does soo much more and it's really complicated.

[@josephpepe2607]

Eeew how? Google drive sucks big time

[@Manuel-rl6um]

@@jemand8462 Same as Google Cloud with Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Keep, Google Tasks, Gmail, Write, Sheets, etc. You take a photo in a phone linked to Google Photos and you will instantly see it in any Google Photos app of other phones or Photos in Chrome on a desktop for example. Everything described in this video is possible with Google Cloud. OneDrive works similarly, where your Outlook, OneNote, etc sync seamlessly using OneDrive storage.

[@djgdroid]

I have been an android user for several years and just in the last month have bought into the Apple eco system. I watch your videos daily and would really be struggling without them. This video on iCloud was amazing and you answered so many questions, THANK YOU!

[@shiftnsix]

Turn back now, it’s not too late 🤣 jk. But genuinely curious if you stuck with Apple or not since it’s been about a year. I don’t know how many times I’ve pledged to myself “this is it, I’m done with Apple” only to cave and buy a new iPhone for simplicity sake.

[@mvl6827]

I watched the whole video from beginning to end (a miracle by itself), and consider it far more useful and informative than anything else I've watched on the subject. Up till now Apple iCloud was a mystery to me, and not a good one as I don't want to pay £10 each month for the privilege. I can now, with your help, start working on what I dó want. So, thanks a lot from a new subscriber!

[@dismaldunc]

The way I explained it to my very old mum was " imagine you have a statue in the front garden, you can see it from the living room, dining room or bedroom. the view is of the same thing , just from different places. If I go in the garden and break its arm off, you will see its arm is missing whichever window you look out of.

[@ProperHonestTech]

That’s a good way of looking at it!

[@TheKlyagcy]

Awesome explanation!! If I were a genie, I'd give you an extra wish for that one. The first wish would be on me.

[@micosstar]

@@TheKlyagcy (: wholesome vibes :)

[@yunghiga3556]

Just one thing that’s missing the size of the window from you see through it (cellular data or Wi-Fi) sometimes you can’t never see the whole sculpture.

[@slomojo98]

@@yunghiga3556 🤦 WOW just add mud to it. 😂

[@hettytravels]

Very good! Years ago, as a new Apple user, I learned the hard way that deleting photos on one device deletes them everywhere. Never again!

[@juliewholohan2850]

Me too, just lucky enough to have been able to retrieve them.😵‍💫 So glad to have found this man great channel.🙏🇦🇺

[@yinoveryang4246]

Theyre in your "trash" and they are there for the next month. On all devices. That's a very good way to do it, probably the best possible way. I don't think this video is actually very good, he misses out some important stuff (and repeats the same sentence or point three or sometimes four times)

[@Primo_extracts]

Your explanation of the shared album changed the game for me. I have over 10,000 videos and pictures from my travels and I've never been able to organize them the way I want. I am very thankful. For this video because the information you gave me is going to simplify everything.

[@JanasViLoegg]

Careful with the shared albums though. The photos are not stored at full resolution and there is no way to get that resolution back. That’s a bummer and makes that „hack“ pretty much useless for me.

[@SoNowWhat]

Thanks for this. A point of clarification - Shared Albums do not count against your iCloud storage limits. Also, as someone else commented here, media is compressed to lower resolutions in a shared album.

[@MatthiasDamm]

And it losts the gps data of where the photos have been taken

[@WheelieAwesomeAdventures]

The quality goes down to 720p and I just figured this out the hard way!

[@yukuhana]

In other words, don't upload to shared album and delete your original!

[@kimlarjohnson2263]

I teach older adults IT and to get them to understand icloud & Apple Storage is a minefield. you are so clear at explaining everything! Wonderful!

[@andydavies27]

Wow, thank you SO much! I have been using an iPhone since iCloud was introduced and never have quite understood iCloud! Apple definitely needs to get your video on their website - I’m sure they would get a lot more sign ups after people actually understand how to use the thing! Thanks

[@christianc6016]

Your videos are so clear, concise, and crisp. And they replicate the ease and intuitiveness of the Apple experience. The graphics/visuals are professional and clean. Really enjoy your channel.

[@PatricioBenavente]

Tip: you can have more than one Photo Library. One shared on the iCloud and one just local. To do this: open photo app while holding the Option Key. To go to a different library: close photo app and open it again with the option key

[@anthonysimpson6738]

I think the fact there is not a tier between 200GB and 2TB level is annoying. There should be a 500GB and 1TB tiers. I am fast approaching the 200GB limit but I don’t wish to move to the 2TB, it is to expensive. It is mostly my photo and videos over 10 years.

[@wingandhog]

Great explanation as usual. I use iCloud as you describe but use pCloud for encrypted long term storage that I purchased a life-time subscription a few years ago. pCloud has a synchronization feature that can be turned on or off. I have my turned on. When I open pCloud on any of my devices including a Windows desktop, my photos, videos or other folders I have pre-tagged get uploaded quickly to cloud storage. When I delete stuff from iCloud, those files still live in pCloud. I can manually delete them there if I need to. So iCloud is only my ‘working’ storage vs pCloud as my true archive.

[@andrejstemmle606]

WOW, what an AWESOME TIP YOU’VE GIVEN ME, regarding the Shared Photo-Album. Up until TODAY exactly this ISSUE (having 2 photos of the same if moved 2 another album) is (was) the GREATEST NUISANCE I‘ve had regarding the photo album. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@mikeyis009]

@@andrejstemmle606 It’s not 2 photos. It’s only 1 but visible in both folders.

[@KGM962]

This is the best video ever!! It single-handedly answered my years long questions in the first few minutes !!!

[@russolmt]

This video saved me a headache and it was so clearly explained. I just checked my icloud storage and realized that way back when apple had offered a service for "live phontos". Of course I turned this on and what it did was duplicate nearly all my photos. Needless to say I had to go in there and clean up. On the positive side however, I cut my stored photographs in half which saved a great deal of space. Now I need to find out how I can put all of these in the Shared Photos! Thanks for helping out with this important explanation.

[@Fizz511]

So I was pleased to see you doing this topic, as I was specifically looking to see if there was a workaround for the fact that Apple have recently stopped streaming photos to all devices, but then here you are explaining how by the time you get home from your walk, your pic will be available on all your devices…… What have I missed/misunderstood? Because photo stream has definitely disappeared from all my devices (and I pay for storage too) 🤔🤷‍♀️

[@ProperHonestTech]

They've disabled My Photo Stream, so you'll need to enable iCloud Photos now to experience what was shown in this video. support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201317

[@Orwic1]

Excellent video - really useful and well explained. I am generally familiar with I cloud, but this filled in some gaps in my knowledge. Thanks for explaining it so well.

[@rudybriskar5267]

Still clear as mud but very informative. I'm new to Apple and the ecosystem. Thank you for your content.

[@jngarr]

Excellent! No BS overly dramatic, just the truth as to the purpose I'm looking for! This is getting harder to find on KZbin, so good props for you.

[@artysanmobile]

I’ve explored alternatives and realized iCloud is unique. Not storage by any means. Others do storage very well. What iCloud does for me is take away the fear of any of my devices suffering catastrophic failure or theft. It just doesn’t matter anymore and that’s a huge relief.

[@bennym1956]

Have a home backup !

[@artysanmobile]

@@bennym1956 A copy at home is not practical for me as I have so many devices and constant changes. iCloud does all the work of synchronization and backup automatically which is exactly what I need. I used to maintain hard copies which was both time consuming and not at all secure, losing data all the time as a result. I keep hard copies only of archival data that is impractically large for cloud storage and is not subject to change, such as record projects that are finished, roughly 50TB in total, three full copies on HDDs . These two very different solutions have resulted in perfect security.

[@kevinjames6231]

Great information! Thanks for you thorough explanations. One thing I'd love to see a video on is how to move from family plans to individual plans safely. Our daughter just got married so it's time to move her off our family plan, but we're trying to figure out how to ensure her photos are properly moved to her own individual account with her own storage WITHOUT losing any of her valuable photos. I'm guessing we're not the only family with this question so might be a valuable video! Thank so much for these great videos.

[@Superjeanmarc]

Very clear video. I consider myself as a power user and still got confused with iCloud. The most terrible feature about iCloud is the way it automatically decides which are the files that you frequently use and how it removes the local download to preserve space but without warning. I often work in remove areas, off grid, and found myself in the situation where I wanted to continue working offline on a file, only to discover that iCloud decided to remove it from my device (the dreaded cloud icon with down arrow)… This is extremely frustrating and shows that the system is really designed by Silicon Valley people that can’t imagine that some people in world need to actually work offline sometimes. Thanks for the video though.

[@dexplore97]

You explained this very well! I am a well experienced user of Apple products and I wouldn’t have been able to explain this as well as you did. Nice.

[@MrUbi]

Hi thanks for this video as always your material is well organised and explained, but still concise and very professional. One thing you didn't cover in the last piece on icloud+ is the Custom Email Domain feature? Would you be able to cover this? Thanks

[@MarttiSuomivuori]

Good quality stuff. You talk clearly, you make your points, you do not scream, nor do you think you are cute. Most of all, the information content is high. You know what you are talking about. One of the best.

[@LeeStewart]

What annoys me about iCloud is the inconsistency between iCloud Drive and Photos. Photos consumes the majority of my iCloud storage, but also my devices' storage, which shouldn't be the case. They should remain separate. To do this Photos should act in the same way as iCloud Drive. You select a photo or video, download it from the cloud and when you need more internal storage, do the opposite of downloading it.

[@georgecaplin9075]

That drives me mad as well.

[@scotta3885]

In settings -> Photos make sure you have optimise iPhone storage enabled this will keep all the full quality versions of your images on iCloud and a lower resolution version on your phone (taking up less phone storage) and once you click into an image or video it will attempt to download the higher quality version from iCloud

[@laratheplanespotter]

Same. I deleted photos from my phone. I didn’t know I’d deleted them from my iCloud account too. So they’ve disappeared and gone forever 😢

[@georgecaplin9075]

@@laratheplanespotter i know this is obvious, but did you look in the deleted folder?

[@sir_whocampsalot2876]

@@laratheplanespotter What do you mean you didn't know? It warns you when deleting pictures that they will be deleted from iCloud too.

[@marcdupuis4679]

Thanks for this great video on this particular subject. Don’t know how you do it every time but it is so well explained, so clear and concise. Keep up the good work. You’re TOP in my book 🏆

[@Martin_Taylor_UK]

Thank you, your clear explanation is just what I needed. I now realise that I was mixing up iCloud Drive and iCloud, believing the two to be one and the same. Now I have that straight, it is all starting to fall into place. Definitely worth a subscription 👍

[@juliewholohan2850]

Thank you for your wonderfully detailed yet simple response to this subject. I am an older tech challenged grandmother. I look forward to your help with other challenging tasks as I stumble through the wilderness of technology….I definitely have a much better handle on my Apple iPad and iPhone. Will definitely be recommending your KZbin channel to all my Babybooming friends.🙏🇦🇺

[@dylanfenn4265]

I just redid my iCloud storage plan as a result of this. Great explanation. Unlike most of you this stuff is far from intuitive for me, so this was a great help.

[@hidazip]

The most confusing thing for me is Apple musical syncing. Music files that I manually added to the Musics app sometimes get a duplicate album from Apple in the library. Sometimes the file gets replaced. Some files that I locally added only are available on my phone and are greyed out on my Mac.

[@markparker5585]

If you still buy CDs and import them, it’s annoyingly frustrating. I don’t want all the music files from my Mac on my phone, but I do want most. When manually syncing music, you can select all, to get a tick in every box, but then you can’t untick individual boxes. Having to tick 490 boxes individually because you don’t want all 500 albums to be synced is ridiculous. If anyone knows how to select all, then just untick individual albums, I’d be grateful to know. Back in the iTunes days, it was a simple case of Importing the CD, then dragging the album to your phone icon.

[@jeremiahreilly9739]

Brilliant. I can't say I fully understand iCloud. But I understand more than I did before listening, Well…time to listen again.

[@SteveFox66]

Interesting that your video came along at this time, I just got a message from iCloud saying my storage was almost full. I've got 200 gigs and usually keep a pretty good eye on it but the culprit turned out to be 60 gigs of drone footage, problem fixed when I moved it to an external drive. thanks for the info.

[@GT-ho6co]

Well described and helpful. Now please explain iTunes music syncing for those that don’t subscribe to Apple Music 🤔🤷🏻🤷🏻‍♂️

[@3weight]

Yes, and Music Match - how does that interact with iCloud’s music sync?

[@ceasarsalad2055]

There's no iTunes anymore

[@GT-ho6co]

@@ceasarsalad2055 yes there is on Windows PC

[@jamesfield1674]

I hear ITunes is going and they are working on a better sync procedure for your own music

[@richardrubin120]

Thanks!

[@ProperHonestTech]

Thank you!

[@funnkyfunk]

SUPER HELPFUL! I have iCloud and I didn't know about some of these! AMAZING videos! Love your channel!

[@paulenisson]

Very informative video. I have an iphone11 with 60gb of storage. I only have 5 gb left. Can I use additional iCloud storage (i currently have 50 gb of iCloud storage) to move items I don't want to have to delete (like photos and videos)? thanks, Paul

[@Stuman57]

While I don’t have a Mac, “yet”. I have the phone 13 and the iPad same. I find your videos extremely helpful and easy to follow. I was going to subscribe but couldn’t. I went to click and saw I already was. 👍I also like Payette Forward. It’s a shame we need people to explain things we do and use daily. I was not sure why I was even paying for the extra 50GB/month. But all the other features…yes! Sometimes we need a little explanation. Thank you!

[@Jed411Jedhed]

Great video. I have everything on my iPhone into the cloud using 45gb. I just purchased a Mac Studio and the desktop folders have the cloud symbol uploading to the cloud ..and now my storage in 121gb (of 200gb). Can I shutoff the Mac Studio from doing that? I only want the cloud for my phone, Not my Mac Studio (I have Time Machine & 2 ext. HD’s), it’s only used as a music studio, nothing else. Thnx

[@joeglennaz]

This video keeps getting better and better! a sidenote, I have never seen moved to the bin on my Mac neither here nor there, though.

[@sam-------]

If you're American it says "move to trash" found this interesting as well

[@joeglennaz]

@@sam------- oh of course. Thank you

[@terencebull6340]

I realise I thought I knew about iCloud but you make it obvious I didn’t , thank you …you are very good at explaining things

[@georgee3401]

Excellent tutorial. Well presented and very useful information. Many thanks!

[@andrewkuhne2586]

Great walkthrough however what was missing for me is Mac back up using iCloud. Disappointed this isn’t available.

[@shteebo]

Good explanation. Apple's made it way harder than necessary to understand this stuff, insisting on using the same terms in several places when they have different purposes/rules. "Cloud" is a prime example. I bet if you ask 10 average users the difference between deleting a photo in the iCloud verses on a CloudDrive, you'd get 5 "no ideas" and 5 wrong answers.

[@amrindersingh3949]

It is still very confusing. Can i back up only some photos and can keep some photos on my iPhone?

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

It is archaic lack of communication. Give 1 star to Apple. They do great tech and it is unacceptable this level of confusion for something we depend on

[@grayareahenshaw4583]

Great video as always. Could you please look at family sharing, another poorly explained feature within the Apple ecosystem which has crossover into iCloud amongst other areas.

[@markproulx1472]

This was a superb presentation. My only request would be to explain how to make (non-photo) files on one’s iCloud drive accessible to others.

[@billligon4005]

There is so much good information here - on this New Years Day 2024 I just can't absorb it all. Awfully glad you "index" the items. Thanks.

[@hs1sey]

so impressive precise and concise content that can't resist to hit like and subscribed

[@CarProR]

Great crystal clear explanation. Kudos. If you haven’t done a f/u video yet I’d like to see a deeper dive on Time Machine and how it backs up what stored on iCloud. For example if I remove a downloaded file from my Mac but keep it on iCloud does time machine back it up or not?

[@ericfielding2540]

This is a helpful explanation for people of almost all levels. I knew most of this information but I still learned more.

[@suits1346]

Thank you for explaining iCloud, it makes a lot more sense now . I do have a question. I have my photos on my iPhone backing up to the cloud, I don't have it backing up on my MBP.. The photos on my MBP is almost the same as my iPhone. If I were to turn on iCloud photos on my MBP would it double the photos (duplicate) in the cloud. Please advise, Thanks

[@JAMxxxx]

Brilliant explanation of iCloud features! So nice to have an Apple presenter who does not bad-mouth Windows or Android.

[@justinsmith368]

Thank you so much, I've been overlooking this feature for so long and never fully understood it.

[@Cari_Crafts]

Awesome video! I learned more than I have in using icloud for 4 years!!

[@aerial558]

I have a question about the storage of videos. What is the best place to store them iCloud, I have a lot but I want to access them at all times? Excellent video and now have a better understanding.

[@talonkard1]

Great video! You briefly mention that iCloud Drives tries to be smart with keeping/removing items from your device based on usage of that item. That is my biggest frustration with it, there are certain files I always want to be able to open locally on my phone from iCloud Drive, and not have to rely on having an internet connection for it to re-download, regardless of how frequently I may or may not open that file. There does not seem to be an option to “keep on device” or anything like that. Are you aware of any way to do this? Or is it just another missing feature?

[@Thucidydes]

I put all those kind of files in one single folder on iCloud Drive and regularly make a copy (and replace) of this entire folder to the “On my iphone” location, e.g. before I go on a holiday. Changes to these files still have to be made on iCloud or, when made locally on the iPhone on the road, copied back to iCloud later on. A bit cumbersome, but manageable.

[@garyross3453]

Small point (error?). At 8:07, you show a PDF that is 'stored locally on my Mac' on the Desktop. But if you look at iCloud Drive the Desktop is included within iCloud Drive anyway. In fact, you can see it within the window you drag it to! A better example would be a file inside the top level your Home folder. Such files are not backup up to iCloud. The Desktop, Documents, and Download folders are included in iCloud Drive. I created a @Dump folder inside my Home and use it to dump unimportant stuff, and periodically go through it and trash or move to iCloud.

[@PixelSplash999]

It's a shame that Apple doesn't allow you to delete photos from the phone and keep the uploaded photos in the cloud just like how iCloud drive does with the pdf files etc.

[@karadytube]

Please answer 🙏 my files app has 9 gb, so now i can’t backup my iPad to icloud because it’s exceed the 5gb limit, so how can i turn off the files app from being backed up to the i cloud? Big Thanks

[@ritagraham6703]

Very well explained. I was present when a phone rep was trying to explain this concept to someone in a phone store - android. Poor person just did not get it. Fortunately Apple provides great classes. Thanks for explaining iCloud Drive. I have not explored that, yet.

[@StonedNoob]

Wait Apple provides classes? What do you mean?

[@wisdomyaw03]

​@@StonedNoobYes. In Apple Stores

[@ritagraham6703]

Yes. Apple stores.

[@StonedNoob]

@@ritagraham6703 wow I didn't know apple provides classes for consumers. Which country is this available in cause I haven't heard of it in europe.

[@chrisayles7694]

Thanks Tim, but a couple of things you said are not true for me. Photos I take on my phone takes several hours to appear on my iPad, yesterday it was about 8 hours. Also contacts are disappearing from my iPhone but remain on my iPad while both look to be synced

[@app48]

An informative and well presented video. Many thanks. I've just started to use iCloud within a dual computer congiuration (iMac and MacBook Pro). Photos have been uploaded from my iMac and I'm about to do the same with the MacBook. Are there likely to be any conflicts/problems?

[@jtinoco9859]

Very informative and detailed video. I find iCloud confusing but now I have a better understanding and hopefully I’d be able to use all its functions to my advantage. Thank you!

[@arashtabrizi8018]

Hi. Thank you for the fabulous content of your posts. I have had a paid iCloud account for years on my iPhone. However, when I try to access older photos on my account, the folders are there but the pictures show as grey rectangles and do not download.

[@joanns5250]

I learn something useful from you EVERY TIME! Thank you!

[@ProperHonestTech]

That's the goal, so I'm pleased to hear it!

[@gwsparry]

I use a PC sparingly for Quicken and some work where I need word processing etc. Otherwise, I use my Apple devices 75% of the time. I have been subscribed to Microsoft 365 for years in order to have Word, Excel and the generous storage space. I also have 2TB of iCloud storage; less than with OneDrive, but more than I need. I therefore use OneDrive for data storage of documents PDFs etc; while this has been flawless for a long time, syncing between my Apple devices and OneDrive has become a headache. Given this background, would it be worth my while to relocate all my OneDrive files to iCloud Drive, ditch Microsoft 365 and use Pages and Numbers?

[@michaelcooper3597]

I can’t understand why photos that I take on my iPhone and iPad, which automatically upload to the Cloud, can’t be seen or accessed from the Photos App on my iMac desktop. 7:09

[@infinityPursuer]

Great video! Would you mind making another video about the iCloud advanced data protection feature? I want to know more about that.

[@thorwaldvandertooren2566]

Nicely explained, Thank you. Is there a chance that you can explain how to link more than one pc to the same iCloud documents location. Please...

[@dannyjo22]

Good video as usual but I'm not a fan of the photo back up with iCloud. I'd rather have a system like one drive where I don't have to have it sync. I'd prefer to have the choice to upload to the cloud and remove from my phone. You touched on mail back ups using cloud mail, I use the mail app with my BT email account. Can I back those emails up to the cloud?

[@Bohemian-Nilda]

Although I’m very appreciative of your description of iCloud, I’m nevertheless extremely happy not using it at all! I hated all the data space I lost bc of it and the $ I had to pay for all the extra space I needed to buy! And I’m perfectly happy with different photos, videos, files, etc. in each of my 5 Apple devices with absolutely no sharing between them. If I wish to share a file or two between devices i can easily do it by airdropping them. I find I’m better organized this way and each device is always packed with space to play with! And most importantly, no more headaches!😊

[@dbloyd2]

There needs to be a way to have an option to save ProRes or 4K video locally and not upload to the cloud. Those are just too big and I don't want to manage video in Photos. The workaround is to not have any syncing but I do want my photos to sync to iCloud.

[@aniruddhrpg2]

hello, thank you for this amazing video. I really liked your presentation style and. the content. very easy to understand. Can. you also help me understand how to setup lighting in. the room the way you have put it up? I am not a KZbinr but can use some lighting g tips for my office online meetings to get adequate lighting on my face and background

[@jeffreylill]

Hi, I’ve just found your excellent video tutorials! I wish I could find a way to share family videos using iCloud Shared Albums. The issue is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to classify them, either by labelling the individual videos or creating folders to store them by category. I suppose I could create a title screen shot for each video but that would be onerous for 500 plus videos. Perhaps third party options are the only solution but they come at a cost. Any ideas..? Thxs

[@ralpharances]

Very clear and precise explanation. Thank you! You just earned a sub!

[@timothylinn]

Several months ago, I spoke to a second level Apple support tech about the differences between shared libraries and shared folders. One of the things I was told is that shared folders do not count against your iCloud storage limit. I suppose this would be easy enough to test-and maybe you have-but what he told me contradicts what you say in the video.

[@ストラテジ]

Great explanation vid! This is why I think Google Photos offers a more convenient service for iPhone users. I can take as many photos as I like, and have them back up to Google Photos and then clear the photos from my phone knowing that they're backed up to the cloud. It's a shame that iCloud doesn't offer the same. I think this is arguably the most important feature (storage savings) for those who have a smaller capacity phone or want to reduce reliance on the storing photos on a single device.

[@chad8355]

Man, thanks for this comment.

[@kasperkorea]

It's not unlikely that Apple wants to nudge you into buying a larger capacity phone. I always opt for the lowest storage model and autobackup my photos in Google Photos and my files in Google Drive. I only use Icloud for Apple native services. In this way, I barely use any storage whatsoever on phone.

[@ストラテジ]

@@kasperkorea Agree with you on that but there's no back up service as an option which I think is questionable. Google Photos does make it easy enough to delete storage on phone once photos are backed up. How do you offload iMessages from your phone?

[@kasperkorea]

@@ストラテジ I don't use iMessages much :)

[@peetabrown5813]

@@kasperkoreaI don’t use iCloud for my photos on my iPhone, and by far the largest chunk of my storage space is consumed by photos and videos; however my iPhone tells me I can save that big chunk of data by enabling iCloud for photos, so it seems it would offload to the iCloud and when viewing on the phone I am only viewing the iCloud photo

[@maxh4296]

At last! An explanation that I can actually understand Many thanks 🤩

[@ashishskapoor]

Very comprehensive. Thanks for all the info. 1 thing I don’t understand about Shared Albums - the uploaded 4K videos somehow only become 720p when downloaded from there at a later date. Same with photos. They drastically lose quality. What do you feel about this?

[@Chessmonster856]

In that case I would just send the video as is to the recipient. If you thought you need a shred folder for yourself, you don’t need that every folder is shared with yourself if that was the question

[@markielinhart]

Thanks for this explainer! I’m an iCloud fan and user with an issue… My iMac/iCloud problem is that since I upgraded my iMac (Catalina) and started using Ventura any photography that I download to Photos don’t automatically show as they used to on my iOS17 iPad. Any clues?✌️

[@seanmartinflix]

Just getting back into Apple after 10+ years, using windows, and Linux. I mostly use Google Drive for my cloud needs. One thing it has that I miss that iCloud doesn't do for some reason is streaming files. With Google dropbox and others, you can sync of course and use it like iCloud works, but you can also just stream the files if you don't want to take up space. I really like Mac however as a video, editor and large file collector for that matter. LOL... Not being able to swap an upgrade storage makes me feel limited. Of course there are solutions to a point. Being able to stream from Google Drive is a nice option I would love to be able to do with iCloud and Apple apps. Anyway, very informative video. Great stuff.

[@brendonfernandez]

This was such a helpful video! Thank you! I’ve been juggling the 5GB free iCloud storage for so long, hoping to get my backup to work. I didn’t realize the next 50GB increment was so affordable.

[@rjayt88]

Thanks for the great video. I do have a few questions. If you sign up for iCloud and sync things like all of your photos, messages, etc with iCloud, does this use a lot more data on your cell phone plan? If it does, I was also wondering if makes your battery drop more quickly, and if it is possible to only sync over WiFi.

[@GrandslamTim1]

excellent topic thats been confusing me for a while - not any more! thank you

[@Intuitive111]

Thank you for clarifying iCloud. My one question is if I say bought a new iMac and wanted to give my old one away and remove my information on it e.g. iCloud, files. If I am understanding you right if I delete all my files. I am deleting from all my other devices. So how do I get around this without losing everything. Would I just sign out of iCloud on the old iMac? Sorry if this seems like a silly question. But I just can’t get my head around it. Thank you!

[@itimdesigner]

your videos are so helpful! got 15 plus and i dont regret getting it:) thanks for this video

[@WilliamUBlome]

Unless I missed it you didn't discuss the optimize storage option. Whether one uses optimize or not makes a huge difference in docs actually being on their Mac or not. Even Apple support ppl don't mention optimize when it's critical to the results a user gets. Everyone assumes we all choose to optimize when in fact we don't. I don't because I want access to ALL my docs all the time whether I have an internet connection or not.

[@derekwishart]

this is the best ad for Dropbox I've ever seen.

[@chrisanckaert]

Great video. I'm already a 2 TB iCloud customer, but still it was very informative 🙂

[@oldtiger8181]

Great video. So iCloud just mainly just file syncs, across different devices but does not allow for use on one owned device to host the files for use and/or backup. They would rather have each user spend more money to increase storage of their portion of iCloud storage as a service (STaAS) to get more money out of people... That is the true design of iCloud. What I do, is have an old computer that has Windows 11 installed on and I simply copy any file to another location on the Windows hard drive when I truly want to back up the file off of the iCloud sync.

[@jds4935]

I have not activated the Desktop and Documents option in iCloud Drive to save space in iCloud Drive. Can I now copy 1 spreadsheet from my local hard drive to iCloud Drive instead of moving it so that this file remains on the local hard drive and also in iCloud Drive? If this can be done will a change in the spreadsheet I make on the local hard drive also be synced to icloud Drive????? I have tried but the change is not synced!!!! Thanks for help!!!

[@MaximZyatnin]

12:59 Photos and videos in shared albums do NOT count against usage quota. That’s why albums have certain limitations such as number of photos allowed per album and reduced quality.

[@MaximZyatnin]

Apple’s support article on this topic is HT 202786 (remove space in between - had to post this way, otherwise KZbin removes such symbolic sequences).

[@freddymiguelponce]

By far THE BEST iCloud video! Just subscribed

[@FritsvanderVeer]

Thanks for the information. Could you please indicate/ give guidance on how to store photo libraries (I have made libraries for several years) on the cloud storage. The standrad library is synced but it is impossible (as you mentioned ) to store additional libraries (I have zipped them to able to store them on the iCloud Drive). Is shared album an option?

[@andrew_2020]

So once you start playing are you on the hook forever? What happens to your data (above the free threshold) if you stop paying?

[@MCMXI1]

Great vid. I'm constantly surprised at how few people back up their iOS devices to their local computer. Everything is backed up and restoring is so much more convenient and complete than using iCloud. And perhaps the most important thing is that local backups are optionally encrypted.