1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,480 Okay, Sarah, this came in for you. 2 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:31,760 Thanks. No problem. Yeah, this happens. 3 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,680 Can I see your iCloud storage in settings? Sure. So do you want to pay for more storage so that you can save your iCloud photos? 4 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:43,400 Not if I don't have to. I already have enough subscriptions, so. All right, well, it looks like I have my work cut out for me. 5 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:53,720 Good luck. Thanks. This is a DVD. 6 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,160 It's late 90s technology that holds about two hours of glorious standard definition 7 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:07,280 video or about 4.7 gigabytes. Now, as of today, Apple's free tier of iCloud gives you more, but not by much because it's 8 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:14,640 only five gigabytes. So if you were to put this movie into your iCloud, you'd get the notification. 9 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,640 When iCloud came out a week after Steve Jobs passing, the space was mostly intended for 10 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,280 iOS device backups or email if you signed up for an iCloud email account. 11 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:30,760 So five gigabytes was plenty. But now we've got iCloud photos, iCloud drive, messages in iCloud and a host of other apps 12 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,760 all vying for your storage space, which Apple does a great job of managing seamlessly and 13 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,160 transparently, at least until you run out of space at the free tier, which won't take 14 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,680 long on a modern device. And when you do, they're all too happy to tell you about it and charge you anywhere 15 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,120 between a dollar a month for 50 gigabytes to $10 a month for two terabytes. 16 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,240 If you don't pay, you might end up like Fatima from our previous video, which you should 17 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:05,040 watch if you've missed who didn't have a backup when her iPhone fell into a lake. 18 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,320 One obvious way to stop this notification madness is to stop using iCloud. 19 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:15,440 You can't disable it outright. But if you go into settings and then click on your iCloud account name, you can easily 20 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,220 identify what's taking up all the space and then select what you do or don't want to 21 00:02:20,220 --> 00:02:24,300 sync. Now, certain features don't count towards your five Gigabyte piton, so there's no 22 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:29,440 real reason to turn them off. As for the rest, well, you need to make some tough decisions. 23 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,200 Personally, I love iMessage and I don't ever delete messages. 24 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:38,260 So my five Gigabyte allotment will be used to synchronize messages between all my devices. 25 00:02:38,380 --> 00:02:41,820 You might like your iCloud email and decide that's what you want using that space. 26 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:44,380 I don't know what Sarah wants to use the space with. 27 00:02:50,020 --> 00:02:53,020 OK, so what do you actually want to save on your iCloud? 28 00:02:53,020 --> 00:02:56,380 What about my photos? Can't do that. 29 00:02:56,380 --> 00:03:00,380 You could save your messages, though. No, I don't need to do that. 30 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:06,380 Backups? Oh, sure. All right, sounds good. 31 00:03:06,380 --> 00:03:12,300 All right, now, I think we probably should deal with what's taking up all this iCloud. 32 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,540 For Sarah, it's photos. It's always photos. 33 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:19,700 Back in 2013, it was the camera roll ballooning iCloud backups. 34 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:25,020 Now it's iCloud photos. And if you've turned on messages in iCloud, well, it's not the text. 35 00:03:25,020 --> 00:03:29,580 There's probably a bunch of photos and gifs in there taking up space, too. 36 00:03:29,580 --> 00:03:34,020 So if you don't want to pay Apple, you're going to have to save your photos elsewhere. 37 00:03:34,020 --> 00:03:40,460 And that's not that straightforward. When you set up a new iPhone or Apple ID, iCloud photos is turned on by default, whether 38 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:46,620 you like it or not. If you want to pay for iCloud storage, it's not a terrible service, allowing all the photos 39 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:51,180 you take to be easily synced and available on all your devices. 40 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:54,780 But most people don't know it's turned on, and they could easily fill it up with one 41 00:03:54,780 --> 00:04:00,500 birthday party. So if you don't want to fill your free iCloud storage, you'll have to turn it off. 42 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:04,380 And then make sure you turn it off when you set up your new phone forever more. 43 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:08,340 Now I'm sure you still want to save your important photos from your phone. 44 00:04:08,340 --> 00:04:12,020 And before June of this year, the easy answer was Google Photos. 45 00:04:12,020 --> 00:04:17,260 It gave unlimited storage of your iPhone photos and video for free. 46 00:04:17,260 --> 00:04:26,220 But that's over now. So you have to consider a few other options. 47 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:34,020 The first is a lightning DPD drive. Now yes, it's less than 5 gigabytes, but you can always grab more by simply adding 48 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:41,420 Obviously, I'm just kidding, though, there is an app in the app store called Nero Airburn. 49 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:46,220 A good option might in fact be Amazon Prime Photos, which offers unlimited storage for 50 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:51,020 photo uploads, but not for video. You only get 5 gigabytes for those. 51 00:04:51,020 --> 00:04:55,580 Another option, and shh, don't tell anyone, is that you might already have cloud storage 52 00:04:55,580 --> 00:05:00,740 with work or school. So if they use Google, you can use Google Photos the way you used to. 53 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:07,860 Or if your organization uses Office 365, OneDrive supports automatic photo uploading deep in the app, too. 54 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:13,860 Just understand that it's not a forever guarantee because, god forbid, you lose your job or finish school or something. 55 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:18,860 And it might be against policy or something, but shh, it can be our little secret. 56 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:22,860 Another convenient alternative is iCloud Photostream. 57 00:05:22,860 --> 00:05:29,860 It is a service that predates iCloud Photos. Basically, it stores photos from the last month in the cloud and downloads the last 58 00:05:29,860 --> 00:05:34,900 thousand of them to your other devices and permanently saving them into your computer. 59 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,700 The catch is that you might not be able to use it since it's no longer available with 60 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:45,740 newer accounts. Sarah and I do have it available, but my sister doesn't, so your mileage may vary. 61 00:05:45,740 --> 00:05:48,980 And if you don't have it, then you're going to have to manually plug in your phone into 62 00:05:48,980 --> 00:05:54,380 your computer and use the image capture app or the photos app on both your Mac and Windows 63 00:05:54,380 --> 00:06:00,060 if you have a PC. Now if you don't have a computer at all, I do have one last solution. 64 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:04,380 It's one of these little flash drives with a lightning plug. 65 00:06:04,380 --> 00:06:12,140 This one is the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Go, and it cost me $40 for 128GB of storage. 66 00:06:12,140 --> 00:06:19,820 That's the same as 13 months of 200GB of iCloud storage, but this I can keep forever. 67 00:06:19,820 --> 00:06:24,700 It uses an included app that pops up, prompting you to backup your photos when you plug it 68 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:30,140 in. But I would describe the interface as mediocre at best, and it has one of the most dangerous 69 00:06:30,140 --> 00:06:36,620 pop-ups I've ever seen once it's done. 70 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:41,740 Do not delete. So be very careful which button you press. 71 00:06:41,740 --> 00:06:47,100 Ultimately though, it does the job as a convenient way to backup photos from your iPhone without 72 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:53,300 relying on the cloud. And if you need to, flip it over and it'll plug into any old USB port to transfer the 73 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:56,620 files to another device. 74 00:06:56,620 --> 00:06:59,620 Okay so then how do you want to backup your photos if you can't backup them up on iCloud 75 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:03,420 Photo? Well I already downloaded them onto my laptop. Really? 76 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:09,660 Yeah. Great. Now before we delete the photos off iCloud, we need to back them up to the iPhone. 77 00:07:09,660 --> 00:07:13,860 Sarah has a lot of space on her phone so she can fit the photos already uploaded to 78 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:17,580 iCloud. Since it won't be over 5GB, you probably will be fine too. 79 00:07:17,580 --> 00:07:21,180 But if not, you can download the photos onto your computer and the photos app. 80 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:25,900 You'll have to turn off iCloud photos on all of your devices anyway. 81 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:32,620 So in settings, go into iCloud, go to iCloud Photos and then select Download and Keep Originals. 82 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:36,220 Once those have been downloaded and you've copied them to your photo storage of choice, 83 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:41,300 you can click on the extremely scary Disable and Delete setting. 84 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:46,660 Now don't worry, it only deletes the copies stored in iCloud. 85 00:07:46,660 --> 00:07:50,500 While your photos stored in iCloud are not downloaded onto this iPhone, these photos 86 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:55,460 will be permanently deleted from iCloud in 30 days to avoid losing them. Download and keep originals before continuing. 87 00:07:55,460 --> 00:07:59,300 But I did that. 88 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:05,820 Why is it saying this? 89 00:08:05,820 --> 00:08:09,740 We have to see what's on your iCloud. So if you want to just- How are we going to do that? 90 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:13,500 Just go to iCloud.com and log in with your Apple ID. Okay, so you can click on Photos. 91 00:08:13,780 --> 00:08:17,380 Wow, I didn't even know this existed, to be completely honest with you, and I've been 92 00:08:17,380 --> 00:08:20,740 using Apple products for my entire life. Congratulations. 93 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:23,740 Okay, Photos. 94 00:08:23,740 --> 00:08:27,540 It's blank. There's nothing there. 95 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:30,540 Some of the photos- Who cares? Click on Hidden? 96 00:08:30,540 --> 00:08:34,540 Yeah, I guess who it is, who cares? Because they're like in my photos on my laptop anyways. 97 00:08:34,540 --> 00:08:38,220 I don't understand. So you're comfortable clicking Continue anyway? 98 00:08:38,220 --> 00:08:41,220 Yeah. To delete that everything off your iCloud? Is that it? 99 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:45,460 Yeah. Undo it if you can't find a photo. 100 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:52,860 Nice. Now we'll want to turn on backups, which on Sarah's phone they are actually already 101 00:08:52,860 --> 00:08:55,980 on. She just hasn't been backing up because there's no space. 102 00:08:55,980 --> 00:09:01,900 Okay, so I realize that a backup without Photos might not seem useful, but it saves 103 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:07,420 other things too, like settings, messages, Wi-Fi passwords, home screen icon layouts, 104 00:09:07,420 --> 00:09:12,580 and anything saved within apps. It's that last one though that can end up causing some problems. 105 00:09:12,580 --> 00:09:16,980 Thankfully, there is an easy way to trim your backup down to size. 106 00:09:16,980 --> 00:09:21,060 When you go into Settings and you go to your iCloud, you can click on Manage Storage and 107 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:28,500 then click on Backups. There, you can delete crusty old backups from long gone phones or manage more precisely 108 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:32,980 what's getting backed up, even down to individual apps. 109 00:09:32,980 --> 00:09:36,020 Let me show you on my phone, for example. 110 00:09:36,020 --> 00:09:43,460 Take the Burger King app. It requires a king size 117 megabytes of backup space. 111 00:09:43,460 --> 00:09:49,660 For what? Flick the switch off, click turn off and delete, and I've saved myself a whopper. 112 00:09:49,660 --> 00:09:53,700 Now you can scroll through here and if there are any apps where you don't care if what 113 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:57,940 you did in that app gets saved, you can switch it off and move on. 114 00:09:57,940 --> 00:10:06,900 McDonald's requires 89 megabytes and then Teams on my phone wanted over 500 megabytes. 115 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:12,380 If leaving out any of this critical data gives you anxiety, there is one other alternative. 116 00:10:12,380 --> 00:10:18,740 Remember iTunes Backup? Well, it still exists, but now it's found in the Finder window on your Mac. 117 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:22,820 In the Device Sync Management page, merely select Backup to your computer and it'll 118 00:10:22,820 --> 00:10:25,940 do the rest, as long as you have enough storage on your computer. 119 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:30,220 I recommend you encrypt the backup, since that allows you to include all personal information 120 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:34,140 like health data. Just make sure you save the password somewhere. 121 00:10:34,140 --> 00:10:38,580 This method can also be used on a PC, but it still requires the iTunes Windows app. 122 00:10:38,580 --> 00:10:43,820 If your computer stays mostly on, you can click the Sync with Wi-Fi button, which means 123 00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:48,460 your phone will backup when it's charging and on the same network as your computer. 124 00:10:48,460 --> 00:10:52,540 And you can always manually trigger a backup if you need to by clicking the Backup Now 125 00:10:52,540 --> 00:10:56,540 button. It's important to remember that if you are backing your phone up to your computer, you 126 00:10:56,540 --> 00:11:03,580 should also be backing up said computer too. Obviously, Time Machine is an excellent way to handle this on a Mac, and there are a plethora 127 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:08,300 of supported drives ranging in price from very affordable USB external jobs to exotic 128 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:15,820 and complicated network-attached storage. Alright, since this is done, let's bring it back to Sarah. 129 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:18,820 Sarah? You're back. 130 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:21,820 I have good news. I have whittled it down to 3.3 gigabytes. 131 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:24,820 What over? You are now within your 5 Gigabyte allotment. 132 00:11:24,820 --> 00:11:27,820 Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. How does it feel? 133 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:30,820 It feels amazing. Great. Yes. 134 00:11:30,820 --> 00:11:38,460 Apple's 5 gigabytes of iCloud storage is a morsel. 135 00:11:38,460 --> 00:11:42,940 It's really a free trial of Apple's iCloud service and nothing more. 136 00:11:42,940 --> 00:11:48,260 You can get it to work, but it requires sacrificing a simple and integrated way to backup photos. 137 00:11:48,260 --> 00:11:53,300 And I think it's frankly shocking that there's no automatic way of offloading your photos 138 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:57,860 onto your computer through Wi-Fi, especially considering that iCloud Photo Stream appears 139 00:11:57,860 --> 00:12:04,900 to be fading to black. But as long as you understand how iCloud works, it is possible to keep those notifications 140 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:12,220 at bay without spending a penny and still have safe storage of your precious memories. 141 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:15,540 Thanks for uploading to this Mac Address. 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