Q: What exactly is the point of iCloud if you can't delete anything off of your device without also deleting it from iCloud?
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Jan 30, 2016 2:16 PMby LACAllen,iCloud is not archival storage. It is not designed to be place to store your content off-device. That's what Dropbox or LiveDrive does better.
It is designed to easily sync your content between multiple devices. Photos, contacts, calendars, music and so on is accessible from whatever device you want in near real time. This is possible because iCloud is the place content is sent to and received from. An intermediate step. Not a destination, but a step along the way.
You take a photo on your iPhone and it flows to your iPad in near real time with no effort on your part. If you have family and friends you can make shared albums that update in near real time. they view them on their devices, or even a public website.
If you have an iPad and an iPhone and you back each up to iCloud, that can easily exceed 5GB.
If you see no value, drop back to the 5GB account and save your 99 cents a month.
