Hi All,
I’ve been happily using iCloud 200GB for years. I'm shocked to see I can’t subscribe to 500GB or even 1TB but the next option is a huge 2TB. It’s expensive and I know I won’t need 2TB for a few years.
Can I switch my iCloud storage to cheaper countries like you can with Dropbox etc?
Is there a choice we have as greedy Apple wants to eat our $$$?
I use OneDrive 6TB included.
With jv on this
OneDrive 👍🏻
The file size of that ‘poetry’ folder on the desktop is getting out of hand
but huge 2GB
2GB is not huge these days..
200GB?
I don’t have family members using iCloud.
I could be your family
Be very careful what you ask for.
Hi uncle
I used Turkey app account to subscribe to Dropbox. But I like having access to all my pictures handy on my phone.
What are my options?
How do you subscribe via Turkey currency, can you outline the steps you use?
How do you setup the Turkey Dropbox?
I agree, the jump from $4.49 to $14.99 is a bridge too far
Roll your own? Buy a cheap server box (like a Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC or one of the cheap Dell boxes that get posted here frequently) and host your own. Slap a 2TB drive in it and happy days.
If you drop your iPhone into the ocean, can you easily restore to a new one with that solution? iPhone will backup the whole phone and all photos and messages and such every time it's on charge and online.
If you're going for a full phone backup it would likely have to be a Mac or PC or VM set to sync when connected to Wifi. You'd probably need to tweak for redundancy and backups depending on how important the data is.
Right, so for the average person paying for auto backups is looking good value in comparison. Our phones have everything on them.
@AustriaBargain: I would tend to agree - for the average person, having everything taken care of is nice and worth the cost. Even for a more technical person not having to deal with the overhead of admin is nice.
@ihfree: iCloud free is enough for that. Then another solution for data.
I've been using google drive, with google opinions previously covering the $2.49pm fee. But I'm not getting enough opinions anymore, so here to find my next solution.
I think I have a decent chunk of onedrive space through work, but I'm concerned I'm locking myself into a crappy job for the sake of free cloud storage and lastpass business.
@SlickMick: At $2.49/month you'd have a long path to break even rolling your own.
There are a few very cheap options if you do decide to build a home server/always on PC of some sort.
I wouldn't be using any plan associated with a job you don't like unless there is a provision for a free personal account. And, even then, i'd probably migrate away unless it was a preferred solution.
I use Bitwarden and find that to be sufficient for personal use. I'm thinking of migrating away from Google Photos - maybe to Immich but that is still in active development with breaking changes, so definitely not a path for everyone.
If you drop your iPhone into the ocean, can you easily restore to a new one with that solution?
What I did was roll my iCloud back to the "free" version and only backed up the phone's core functions. The absolute minimum required to get the phone replaced and resynched after dropping my old phone in the ocean. Contacts, settings, messages, logins, that kind of thing.
For all the big stuff, like 539gb of photos and home movies and all that kind of data hoarding needs, I have a "roll your own" solution made out of some old QNAP NAS gear I had laying around. It handles all the "heavy lifting" stuff. The stuff I can easily go without for a day or two when I get a new phone and load it back on later if I need to, or I just leave it on the server for viewing and it also frees up phone space.
If you're technically minded and don't mind investing in hardware, consider a Home NAS(+ backup strategy). Use a VPN or reverse proxy of some sort for remote access.
Run something like own cloud or photo management software.
An option is to family share yourself another 200gb
iCloud turkey
Türkiye3 (TRY)
50 GB: 24.99 TL
200 GB: 79.99 TL
2 TB: 249.99 TL = 11 AUD
6 TB: 1299.99 TL
12 TB: 2499.99 TL
I have a separate Turkey account and use family sharing to backup my main icloud account. I have the 200GB Turkey plan and pay for it with Turkey Apple gift cards.
I do the same.
If my main account is the organizer of a family group, will your setup still work?
If I do that don’t I lose my current Australian iCloud account?
You don't.
Setup a new Apple ID with turkey as location and make the payment using either gift card or Australian bank card.
Then add your Australian account as family and that's it.
Wow this is Gold !! That’s exactly what I needed to do. I’ll try this now. Hopefully I can create a dummy Apple ID without registering my apple devices there.
@justanick: Could you please help me?
I have added Turkey Gmail account. I already have a secondary email to pay for Turkish Spotify etc.Let’s say the account ID is [email protected].
My Australian Apple ID is [email protected] (Kamala being the family organiser)
I can’t seem to purchase iCloud with king Henry Apple ID. It says notification sent to your Apple Watch and I never get any notifications.
I don’t want to sign out from my phone and use King Henry to sign in. That’s when I’ll lose all my settings.
@justanick: @justanick have you seen/read ISP's guide here? your questions might be answered there in the comments
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/786745
@powerhead: @powerhead: Thank you. I was looking for this link only.
@justanick: Yes, try the link shared by @powerhead.
@pc007: I have spent a lot of time tonight and finally able to get this to work to save $3AUD as Turkish Apple increased the iCloud prices. This was not straight forward process.
I had Turkey apple account and use funds to buy credits.
I used Windows PC to upgrade iCloud+ on my Turkish apple ID 2TB (okay this was easy).
I logged out of my iphone 16 AU account and signed with my Turkish account to add family member. I got region issue as Turkish account and Australian account had a conflict. That means if your family member out of 6 migrated outside Turkey or Australia that's it then (at least officially).
I had to obtain an old iphone 5S and logged in with my Turkish account. Started the process again and again until suddenly it worked.
Now I have managed to use the Turkish account (organiser) and the Australian account iphone 16 is family member.
I didn't understand from the other thread that members cannot share their iCloud storage only the organiser. If my brother is the organiser let's say with 200GB and I have 2TB I cannot share with him if he's running low on storage. This is just weird. I thought any of the member can share their storage.
Now I have to keep the iphone 5S handy with me so that I can add my wife or if something happens to the account I can go back and fix the issue as the iPhone 5S is linked with Turkish account.
This entire process would make it worth saving a lot of $$ but for $3/month not sure if this is worth it.
@justanick: Great to know that it worked. Yes it is a tedious process.
And, if you are not happy with it, my suggestion is to buy a NAS and setup at home and access from anywhere in the world. That way you can always have your files. You can always upgrade storage as per your needs and it might seem expensive at first but in the long run, it is cheaper than cloud storage.
@pc007: Ya but the trouble is iCloud has seamless integration between the photos and other data that are on my device.
I have set it up for now but I need to somehow ensure I have enough TL funds pre paid on my account. If I could link a local credit card then it’s easier. Now I have to manually buy Turkish Lira and add to the account
Probably not what you’re after (spending even more) but I subscribe to Apple One Premier at $49.99 a month which gets me access to 2TB iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Fitness which I all use extensively.
It also gets you Apple TV+, Apple News and Apple Arcade - of which I use none - but it’s still cheaper than subscribing to the former three individually.
You can share that with 6 family members, so my wife and I have that, plus I also share it with my father in law (have his phone backed up).
It’s obviously a lot more than you’re looking for, but maybe others could be interested.
I was under the impression you can add another pack of the same data. Like, you can subscribe to the 200gb and 100gb and get 300?
Edit:
You can add iCloud plus to an Apple one subscription, so you can stack on extra storage, maybe that’s a way forward
Thanks mate. How do I stack another 100GB? I can’t find this option.
How much is Apple one? My search shows $19.99. I’m already paying cheaper 200GB and upgrading to 2TB will be much more but Apple one with basic 200 GB is still more.
Another option dont use online storage.
Now that I successfully subscribed to Turkish iCloud can anyone tell me how I can automate the payment plan so that I don’t have to keep topping up iTune credits?
Just buy 1000try at a time
You can family share that 2TB.