how can i record video directly to the cloud

That's what I've done so far. It takes up a lot of room on my phone--I'm afraid I could run out of space in the middle of a game--and it takes a long time for the videos to upload. Since I want things to be in the cloud, available to coach & the players, after the game, I'd like to be able to just record there directly.

Thanks! That's a good point. I generally hate that Apple defaults to "backing up" my stuff on the cloud instead of letting me keep it where I want it, on my device. I've lost things that way before, turning off the cloud and having pictures disappear from the phone on which they were taken. But for once I do want something to go there.

Is there any way to control what things go to iCloud and which do not? I've recently been fighting the whole photos thing again--tried to edit a picture and was told I couldn't because it couldn't be downloaded--even though I had never said to upload it in the first place. (There have been several updates recently and my settings get changed, so I find things bogged down like this even though it feels like I have just fixed it).

So I guess my real question is two-fold--how can I get pix out of iCloud without losing them and how can I have a video automatically backed up there?

You are probably right about Apple not working with 3rd parties the way Google does on that app.

To answer your questions:

I have work-related stuff on my Google drive, would rather not put kid stuff there.

The previous reply was incredibly blunt and uncaring, like flipping someone off, but you're right, it wasn't Apple doing it.

"As for the videos taking a long time to load, they will load once the device is plugged in to power and connected to WiFi."

But it takes a while to upload them. For the last hour, my son's phone has been uploading the 69 videos I took at his game earlier today. When I try to do them individually as soon as they are finished, I need to start taking the next video before the last one is finished uploading.

Yes, that's why I want to skip the whole uploading step and just have the video be saved in the cloud in the first place.

About losing pix--I don't remember the details of wrassling over pix of the last Christmas we knew my dad would be lucid, other than that an Apple employee told me to ignore a message I was getting about photos being deleted if I had taken them on my phone, because they would still be there. Turned out they were wrong. Goodbye, Dad & Christmas cookies! At various times I've been told I can't do things with pictures on the phone they were taken on, because they can't be "downloaded"--upload them to a different app, send them to someone, edit them, all because of this thing of having them be "managed" by the software that keeps resetting to give itself control.

I don't understand your reply to my second question above.

Thanks for your reply.

That's not how the deletion occurred. I wanted to get them all from the Cloud onto my phone, thought I had done so because I could see them on my phone. When I said to cut the connection to iCloud, I got a warning that they would also be taken off my phone, so I called Apple for advice. The employee said the warning was wrong, that if I had them on my phone, they would stay there. That isn't what happened. The pix were deleted everywhere. They may have changed that by now, I don't know. As it is, I can't even try to download all the photos onto my phone--there isn't enough room. I didn't know they were only being saved in low quality and the "real" versions only saved in the cloud. As I've mentioned, Apple repeatedly wrests away control of this, changing the setting, so in the end I was tricked as to how much storage was available on my phone. (They probably didn't think of it as something dastardly, but probably thought no one would not want to pay to store things in the cloud).

As for not being able to do things with them on the phone, that is because they *aren't on the phone*. The things I'm trying to do--use the editing tools in the Photos app on the phone, upload to other sites, etc, all require them to be on the phone, not in the cloud. I don't know where you get the idea that there are no editing options on the device--"edit" is right there in the Photos app, and contains the simple tools (adjust lighting, crop/resize, rotate) that I need.

At this point I have a really basic question that should be easy--how can I see the things that are stored in the cloud? I think there are some videos there that I want to download to my laptop, but I have no clue how to actually look at what is there when I am online.

OKaaaaaaaaay. How about other ways to do it? Are there any third party apps that work with an iphone to put videos directly in the cloud, or does Apple just give everybody the middle finger on this?