Do I need both
I am paying for ICloud (never been able to retrieve anything from it though), have 1TB of storage on my phone
Now Google One are saying file full buy more storage. Please can someone help me. I’m 72 and don’t understand.
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 17
Tnegun wrote:
Do I need both
I am paying for ICloud (never been able to retrieve anything from it though), have 1TB of storage on my phone
Now Google One are saying file full buy more storage. Please can someone help me. I’m 72 and don’t understand.
I didn’t answer your 2nd question.
iCloud is a syncing service; that means that everything in iCloud is duplicated on all devices that are logged in to iCloud, and any time you add or delete content (such as photos) on any device it will be added or deleted on all other devices.
Google One is an archiving service; content uploaded to Google One remains there, even if you delete it from devices logged into Google One.
Thus, they serve different purposes; Google one is a good way to save content that you may not need on your iPhone or computer but you want to keep permanently (or at least for a while). iCloud does NOT work for that purpose, as its content must remain on all synced devices.
There are many other archiving services, such as Dropbox, box.com, Livedrive for general content, and Shutterfly, Amazon Photos, etc specifically for photos. Google One is a particularly convenient one, however.
Tnegun wrote:
Do I need both
I am paying for ICloud (never been able to retrieve anything from it though), have 1TB of storage on my phone
Now Google One are saying file full buy more storage. Please can someone help me. I’m 72 and don’t understand.
I didn’t answer your 2nd question.
iCloud is a syncing service; that means that everything in iCloud is duplicated on all devices that are logged in to iCloud, and any time you add or delete content (such as photos) on any device it will be added or deleted on all other devices.
Google One is an archiving service; content uploaded to Google One remains there, even if you delete it from devices logged into Google One.
Thus, they serve different purposes; Google one is a good way to save content that you may not need on your iPhone or computer but you want to keep permanently (or at least for a while). iCloud does NOT work for that purpose, as its content must remain on all synced devices.
There are many other archiving services, such as Dropbox, box.com, Livedrive for general content, and Shutterfly, Amazon Photos, etc specifically for photos. Google One is a particularly convenient one, however.
What you bought is iCloud+ storage that is used for backing up and also for syncing to other devices. Here is an explanation→What's the difference between device storage and iCloud storage? - Apple Support
iCloud+ has 2 independent functions. iCloud backups, and iCloud sync. It’s confusing because they both have the same name prefix. But they have no connection with each other. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud. You will see a bunch of switches (with iOS 16 also tap Show All). When you turn on a switch that data type will sync to iCloud. If you do this on multiple devices that share an Apple ID (A Mac, iPad, or Windows PC with iCloud for Windows installed from the Microsoft Store) the selected data will sync to all of those devices. You can also view everything you sync to iCloud by logging in to https://icloud.com with your Apple ID and password.
You can also turn on iCloud Backups. This will back up your phone every night if the phone is plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi and locked.
But note that anything that you sync by the first method will be excluded from the iCloud backups.
iCloud vs Google One storage
