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Q: how do I find a detailed breakdown of the storage requirements of every item I have in the iCloud

How do I get a breakdown of the storage requirements of every item [yes, even each photo] I have in iCloud.

I am told I have used 38GB of storage for my photos iCloud and for the number of photos stored this cannot be correct.Is there a way of finding out how this is built up?

iPad, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 15, 2015 9:04 AM

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Q: how do I find a detailed breakdown of the storage requirements of every item I have in the iCloud

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Oct 15, 2015 9:53 AM in response to Martwicks
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    Oct 15, 2015 9:53 AM in response to Martwicks

    You can't.

     

    Why do you think it's incorrect.

  • by Martwicks,

    Martwicks Martwicks Oct 15, 2015 11:54 PM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Oct 15, 2015 11:54 PM in response to Winston Churchill

    Thanks WC

    That's disappointing as I think it would be reasonable to understand how your storage is made up in order to ensure you are not purchasing more storage unecessarily. I.e.it would always be in apples interest to sell you to more storage and what's to stop them storing 4 copies of everything unnecessarily ?

    I have about 2000 photos which I thought would on average would be about 3.00MB each making my storage requirements about 6GB so nothing like the 38GB stated. The storage requirements of the same library of pictures seemed to increase only when I upgraded to i.o.s. 9.00

  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Oct 16, 2015 4:29 AM in response to Martwicks
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    Oct 16, 2015 4:29 AM in response to Martwicks

    Yes that does seem rather large, what about videos.

  • by Martwicks,

    Martwicks Martwicks Oct 22, 2015 4:47 AM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Oct 22, 2015 4:47 AM in response to Winston Churchill

    Bit late Winston but approx 25mins of video

    I still can't believe you cannot get a breakdown of your storage. Surely Apple have a responsibility to their customers otherwise they could just duplicate everything in the cloud, forcing you to buy more storage ! No, they wouldn't do this would they. Equally somehow I could have unwittingly stored things twice .

    C'est la vie ! Thanks for wandering anyway.

  • by Martwicks,

    Martwicks Martwicks Oct 22, 2015 4:49 AM in response to Martwicks
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    Oct 22, 2015 4:49 AM in response to Martwicks

    Answering that should be !