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**Chris** · 16-10-2021, 09:44

Everything I care about is synchronised across my iPad, phone and two macs via iCloud. It’s been a complete backup solution for ma ever since they added a file system app to iOS about 4 years ago. It meant just as I was heading back to uni I was able to buy a Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad and use it as a laptop, rather than spending £100s on a complete new machine I didn’t need.

These days we have a family subscription to Apple One, which puts Apple Music on all the Echo devices around the house and Apple TV on all the screens, and also gives me 2TB of iCloud storage. I’ve not got round to uploading my entire photo library to it yet. I synchronised that to Google photos for years, until they started charging for it - that was the point at which it began to make sense for me to be paying Apple more than the token 79p per month for 50GB storage. So at the moment I have about 100GB in iCloud, which includes all my photos over the last 6 months or so, but once I get my entire photo library in there I will probably be over a terabyte.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,141	Re: Backup media Everything I care about is synchronised across my iPad, phone and two macs via iCloud. It’s been a complete backup solution for ma ever since they added a file system app to iOS about 4 years ago. It meant just as I was heading back to uni I was able to buy a Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad and use it as a laptop, rather than spending £100s on a complete new machine I didn’t need. These days we have a family subscription to Apple One, which puts Apple Music on all the Echo devices around the house and Apple TV on all the screens, and also gives me 2TB of iCloud storage. I’ve not got round to uploading my entire photo library to it yet. I synchronised that to Google photos for years, until they started charging for it - that was the point at which it began to make sense for me to be paying Apple more than the token 79p per month for 50GB storage. So at the moment I have about 100GB in iCloud, which includes all my photos over the last 6 months or so, but once I get my entire photo library in there I will probably be over a terabyte.