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Do you pay for iCloud storage

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Yes, worth it

Yes, not worth it

33557 votes

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Anonymous 8w

Id say the 99c option is worth it, above that is excessive, you can offload pics/vids very easily to other storage (and should!)

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Anonymous 8w

am i tripping or does this have an absolute fuckton of votes

Anonymous 8w

it worth it on the off chance you lose your phone. icloud will download your data onto a new phone easy

Anonymous 8w

only the 1$ one

Anonymous 8w

I might’ve accidentally pressed not worth it, but worth it bc I’m not tryna free up space in my phone to take a few pictures

Anonymous 8w

Hot take, if you still use the cloud at all in 2026 you're giving up your freedom

Anonymous 8w

I’d say it’s super worth, also make sure you’re having regular iCloud backups, it saved my ass last week when my old phone got water intrusion and couldn’t be fixed.

Anonymous 8w

10k vote but 100 upvotes 😭

Anonymous 8w

I prefer physical storage and backups personally, I like to have explicit control over my own files, but cloud is better than nothing.

Anonymous 8w

Option 4: I don’t pay. My parents do 😎

Anonymous 8w

You can still backup your phone to your PC with iTunes for free!

Anonymous 8w

It’s only worth it if you have more than one apple device, I have an iPhone and iPad and I like to take/use photos on both so having an abundance of cloud storage is convenient

Anonymous 8w

I just back up my phone to my computer. easily worth a little hassle to avoid a subscription fee

Anonymous 8w

as someone who hoards photos and memes, yes

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Anonymous 8w

I do and it’s totally worth it more place to store my nudes and memories!

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Anonymous 8w

I get 2 tb for 9.99 and split it with my brother

Anonymous 8w

2TB

Anonymous 8w

Amazon photos is where it’s at

Anonymous 7w

Why are there so many votes holy moly

Anonymous 8w

i’m sorry but for those of you saying google and saying it has better security… what’s making yall believe that when google is regularly security breached?

Anonymous 8w

No, but somebody else pays for it for me

Anonymous 8w

It’s like a dollar

Anonymous 8w

google photos

Anonymous 8w

only bc my phone wouldn’t work until I paid for it

Anonymous 8w

Its worth it if you have a family

Anonymous 8w

I just use my dads family one as a grown ass adult and pretty worth it, I lost all of the pictures I deemed important to me once so to me personally it’s worth it

Anonymous 8w

If you have Amazon prime, it’s unlimited photo uploads 🤷‍♂️

Anonymous 8w

I pay for onedrive

Anonymous 8w

I pay for the 2.99 one because I use my phone, iPad, MacBook, & Apple Watch, so across those 3 I use a LOT of storage and need the backup, it’s worth it

Anonymous 8w

Yeah I think I somehow got on a plan years ago paying like $3 a month idk

Anonymous 8w

This is my sign to get more storage. I currently only have 64 GB

Anonymous 8w

me and my mom get the $10 plan and share the storage

Anonymous 8w

optional to cancel it btw

Anonymous 8w

Idk the answer to this. I should look into it

Anonymous 8w

Meant to put no not worth it but that wasn’t an option

Anonymous 8w

It was worth it when I had a ton of photos saved, but when I broke up with my ex I cleared up 99% of my storage space from deleting our photos alone and didn’t need it anymore

Anonymous 8w

1 dolla

Anonymous 8w

no my mom does 😎

Anonymous 7w

no but i like the 5TB my parents’ plan has

Anonymous 8w

I have onedrive

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Anonymous

#2 8w

$3 isn’t much, who offers 250 gb for significantly less than that?

Anonymous

#4 8w

Digitally? Google drive is free holds a crazy amount and you can make infinite accounts for infinite drives. I imagine anyone paying for apple cloud storage isnt too worried abt security anyways. $3 isnt much but for some people that $3 could go a long way somewhere more important

Anonymous

#2 8w

Wait what’s the security risk of iCloud storage lol

Anonymous

#6 8w

More so apple in general? Most places online are not as secure as you think without personal measures in place

Anonymous

#2 8w

Kind of vague.. I don’t imagine how Apple could be too insecure if you have basic 2FA at least enabled.

Anonymous

#2 8w

Google drive is only free for 15 gb. That isn’t free. That’s actually pretty small. They’re about the same as Apple once that deal expires. And I’m not looking through 20 google accounts when I want to find a photo. Everything in one place.

Anonymous

#4 8w

That isn’t *crazy

Anonymous

#4 8w

My google drives hold way more than 15gb and has nothing to do with their ai upgrade lol I have one account for friends and family photos/vids, one for concerts+events, and one for my artistic projects (photography, music, long performance recordings etc) its incredibly organized and easy for me and none are even close to full. It wont work for everyone but for people in a pinch that dont want to spend money to store stuff it works and is very easy to do

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Anonymous

#2 8w

I agree with everything you said but 3 dollars is going absolutely no where today 😭

Anonymous

#2 8w

I literally just posted the pricing. If you have some special inside deal it doesn’t count because it isn’t available to everyone.

Anonymous

#2 8w

As far as things go, i feel like apple is far better than the likes of google when it comes to privacy stuff… at least apple pretends to care. If you really care about privacy its time to start building a homelab atp

Anonymous

#4 8w

Google drive used to be 400gb free for everyone I dont have a special deal and I dont pay google any money only thing I can think of is that my accs were over the 15gb when they made the change 🤷‍♀️ either way free storage is free storage, as I said it wont work for everyone but for some people that couple bucks could be all the difference I was just suggesting an option, theres plenty of others if my suggestion isnt for you

Anonymous

#2 8w

I honestly trust Apple way more than google also it’s the seamless integration that makes it worth not just the storage. I have more than enough room on my phone and laptop if pure data storage is all I cared about

Anonymous

#22 8w

I think they meant security, not privacy..?

Anonymous

#29 8w

genuinely how the fuck is this post getting so much attention, i don't get it

Anonymous

pink_cherry_blossom5678 8w

you should let me see

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Anonymous

#2 8w

idk why i never thought abt this, i pay freaking 10.99 a month because icloud a bitch fr. do you use google drive or do you recommend something else?

Anonymous

#18 8w

really?! i didn’t know that how do you get that feature?

Anonymous

#4 8w

I get 2tb of OneDrive and all of office from Microsoft for $2.99 a month

Anonymous

#25 8w

Called “Amazon photos” there’s an app and a website. Just be careful 5gb of video storage and then it stops. But otherwise I just have the app and dump my phone into it once every like 6 months or so. I swear it’s a bad deal for them. I have hundreds of thousands of pictures.

Anonymous

#47 8w

Homelab expensive ☹️

Anonymous

#22 8w

backing your phone up to your pc or mac is free you just need itunes and a cable

Anonymous

#12 8w

Maybe it got cross posted?

Anonymous

#8 7w

My phone broke and I’ve been locked out of my iCloud for almost a month

Anonymous

#11 7w

I never backed mine up and now my battery is expanding and I urgently need my data off but since I never backed it up, it’s taking forever!! Back up ur phone regularly!

Anonymous

#54 7w

plug it into your computer and back it up that way its way faster itunes on windows and its just built in on mac

Anonymous

#38 7w

I have my phone backed up just not the photos and that’d take days, so I just put all my photos onto my Mac and I’ll back them up from there or something