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Hello all,
One thing I don't understand: if I buy extra iCloud storage how does my iPhone and Macbook share this? Like:
• do I get an extra folder in my Finder window like Dropbox?
• and what's happening on the iPhone side? How do I move things up to the Cloud? I've always been really unclear on what's on the phone and what's in the cloud.
Thank you!
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.12
iCloud storage is configured separately on the iPhone and the Mac (and other devices you may have). You can put things in your iCloud area from each device as long as the total iCloud usage for your account is under your storage quota. Examples of applications that CAN be configured to use (or not use) iCloud storage include Notes, Pages, Keynote, Photos, Contacts, iPhone backups, Keychain, Safari Bookmarks etc. That configuration is handled in settings separately on each device. The same iCloud is accessed for all devices using the same Apple ID.
When iCloud is being used for storing the same items (photos, contacts etc.) for multiple devices, that storage is just used once and is shared for all those devices. So if you are storing 100 GB of photos in iCloud for each of 5 devices, each of the 5 devices sees those same photos but the iCloud storage is just 100 GB (not 5x100 GB).
iCloud storage is configured separately on the iPhone and the Mac (and other devices you may have). You can put things in your iCloud area from each device as long as the total iCloud usage for your account is under your storage quota. Examples of applications that CAN be configured to use (or not use) iCloud storage include Notes, Pages, Keynote, Photos, Contacts, iPhone backups, Keychain, Safari Bookmarks etc. That configuration is handled in settings separately on each device. The same iCloud is accessed for all devices using the same Apple ID.
When iCloud is being used for storing the same items (photos, contacts etc.) for multiple devices, that storage is just used once and is shared for all those devices. So if you are storing 100 GB of photos in iCloud for each of 5 devices, each of the 5 devices sees those same photos but the iCloud storage is just 100 GB (not 5x100 GB).
Thank you! And just to circle back to one thing: on Mac, let's say I have a bunch of folders of Adobe stuff that I want stored on the cloud. I'd be able to do that, right? The way you wrote the above makes it sound like certain items can't be stored in the cloud.
7Vyse wrote:
Thank you! And just to circle back to one thing: on Mac, let's say I have a bunch of folders of Adobe stuff that I want stored on the cloud. I'd be able to do that, right? The way you wrote the above makes it sound like certain items can't be stored in the cloud.
ICloud is not "storage" in the sense that you can offload data from your computer to iCloud. iCloud is a file synchronization tool. Files that exist in iCloud also exist on your computer.
How does extra iCloud storage overlap between macOS and iOS?
