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I was out to dinner with a table of normies, my wife's friends, last year. Ten people, I asked who pays monthly for iCloud, nine hands go up.

It easy to see why. When you first open your new iPhone it backs up to iCloud, you get 5GB free and the first backup takes ~4.5GB. Now it will remind you endlessly that your iCloud is nearly full. It's only £0.99 a month to make them shut up...



> you get 5GB free and the first backup takes ~4.5GB

Not my OOTB experience at all; an iCloud backup of a new, nearly empty phone is vanishingly small.

That said, shoot a bunch of 48Mpx pics + 4K vids and you're going to fill those 5GB quite quickly.


Hmm good point. I did open a new iPhone last month and that was my experience but looking at it now I think the big factor was 3GB of WhatsApp data I imported from Android!


1 western monetary unit a month is still a LOT cheaper than getting the next level storage upgrade.

Rven the 200GB package (2.99€?) is only 36€ a year and should last most normal _families_ when shared.




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