Are there any cloud-based alternatives to iCloud to store my photos?

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my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ? so I can free up space for my iCloud

I can't back up my phone now , my iCloud storage is full

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is $0.99 per month for 20GB too much??
 

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is $0.99 per month for 20GB too much??

I will do it later , I have some problem with my bank card at this moment
I have been working hard to sort the bank issues recently


if I can pay cash I m more then willing to do so
 

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Re: my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ?

buy an iTunes gift card and apply it to your AppleID.

Do gift cards allow for recurring charges? I wasn't aware they had that capability...or does it just apply it to the Apple ID, and pull from the applied iTunes gift card balance first before charging CC on file? I've never actually bought an iTunes gift card before in my life, LOL!
 

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Do gift cards allow for recurring charges? I wasn't aware they had that capability...or does it just apply it to the Apple ID, and pull from the applied iTunes gift card balance first before charging CC on file? I've never actually bought an iTunes gift card before in my life, LOL!


no apple staff teach me this method to add money to my account so I can have more storage ,last week when I was in Apple Store lol

I live in north of england , UK
 

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Do gift cards allow for recurring charges? I wasn't aware they had that capability...or does it just apply it to the Apple ID, and pull from the applied iTunes gift card balance first before charging CC on file? I've never actually bought an iTunes gift card before in my life, LOL!
Any charge of any kind will pull from a balance on your AppleID before it taps a CC on file... so yes, recurring charges will tap the available balance...
 

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Any charge of any kind will pull from a balance on your AppleID before it taps a CC on file... so yes, recurring charges will tap the available balance...

Good to know. I was always curious about how people were paying for recurring charge stuff with no CC or debit card on file (IE: my nephews when they were younger). Now it makes sense...
 

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Re: my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ?

Any charge of any kind will pull from a balance on your AppleID before it taps a CC on file... so yes, recurring charges will tap the available balance...

I m in Apple Store now , the staff told me I purchase the iTunes gift card cannot used it to buy iCloud storage .


They said it must goes through a bank card


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Any charge of any kind will pull from a balance on your AppleID before it taps a CC on file... so yes, recurring charges will tap the available balance...


it sort now , another staff " my pretty girl " lol , she say yes I can and teach me how to do it

now I have 20GB storage in my iCloud



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my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ? so I can free up space for my iCloud

I can't back up my phone now , my iCloud storage is full

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Dropbox
OneDrive
Box
Google Drive

Take your pick.
 

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Re: my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ?

Apple's pricing is a bit... High compared to what you get from other competitors. OneDrive gives you 30GB for free. Google gives you 15GB on Drive.

Flickr is the best place, IMO. You have 1TB and with their newly refreshed Apps and Website, it's kind of amazing. You can just have the Auto Uploadr set up on your Mac to upload from your Photos Library and it will get everything and skip duplicates. Then, when your 5GB gets full you just go into your Photos Library and clean it out. Pretty spiffy solution, IMO.

It's what I plan on doing. I had the 200GB iCloud Plan, but I downgraded it to the Free 5GB plan.

The Flickr iOS app is really really good now, too, and has non-destructive Ediitng like Photos. Really the only thing iCloud Photo has that's good, comparatively speaking, is a thick client desktop App (and that doesn't even matter if you use something like Lightroom).
 

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Re: my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ?

FWIW all of those mentioned cloud services offer auto back-up of photos as well ...
Now saying that I still pony up 99? for the extra 20GB's for the wife and I (actually $1.98 if you want to get technical)...
 

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Re: my 5GB icloud storage is full , any cloud alternative to put my photos in ?

Apple's pricing is a bit... High compared to what you get from other competitors. OneDrive gives you 30GB for free. Google gives you 15GB on Drive.

Flickr is the best place, IMO. You have 1TB and with their newly refreshed Apps and Website, it's kind of amazing. You can just have the Auto Uploadr set up on your Mac to upload from your Photos Library and it will get everything and skip duplicates. Then, when your 5GB gets full you just go into your Photos Library and clean it out. Pretty spiffy solution, IMO.

It's what I plan on doing. I had the 200GB iCloud Plan, but I downgraded it to the Free 5GB plan.

The Flickr iOS app is really really good now, too, and has non-destructive Ediitng like Photos. Really the only thing iCloud Photo has that's good, comparatively speaking, is a thick client desktop App (and that doesn't even matter if you use something like Lightroom).

Does Flickr have a file size limit? Dropbox does not, but others do.


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I try to keep my free 5 gb in iCloud for my current phone back up. For storage of photos, videos, gifs, png images, Documents, and notes, I use Box, Dropbox and OneDrive. The larger videos go in Dropbox because there's no file size limit. Between the 3, I have 83 gb of storage. That will last me a long time. And then there's Google Drive which I have but don't yet use. I don't know much about Flickr. [ Goes to Google Flickr]


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