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(bouncy piano music) (Sarah sighs)

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(computer rings) (Sarah sighs again)

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(bouncy piano music) - Oh, hey Sarah. This came in for you. - Oh, thanks.

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- No prob. (paper crumples)

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(bouncy piano music) (frustrated sighs)

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(bouncy piano music)

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(Sarah sighs again)

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- Yeah, this happens. Can I see your iCloud storage in settings? - Sure

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- So, do you want to pay for more storage, so that you can save your iCloud photos?

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- Not if I don't have to. I already have enough subscriptions, so.

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- All right. Well, it looks like I have my work cut out for me. - Good luck.

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- Thanks. (upbeat music)

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This is a DVD. It's late 90s technology, that holds about two hours

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of glorious standard definition video, or about 4.7 gigabytes.

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Now, as of today, Apple's free tier of iCloud gives you more.

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But, not by much, because it's only 5 gigabytes.

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So, if you were to put this movie into your iCloud,

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you'd get the notification. When iCloud came out, a week after Steve Jobs passing,

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the space was mostly intended for iOS device Backups, or email, if you signed up for an iCloud email account.

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So, 5 gigabytes was plenty. But now we've got iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive,

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Messages in iCloud, and a host of other apps, all vying for your storage space,

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which apple does a great job of managing, seamlessly, and transparently.

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At least, until you run out of space at the free tier, which won't take long on a modern device.

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And, when you do, they're all too happy to tell you about it.

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And charge you anywhere between a dollar a month for 50 gigabytes,

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to $10 dollars a month for 2 terabytes.

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If you don't pay, you might end up like Fatemeh, from our previous video.

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Which you should watch if you've missed. Who didn't have a backup when her iPhone,

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fell into a lake. (iPhone drowning)

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One obvious way to stop this notification madness, is to stop using iCloud.

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You can't disable it outright, but if you go into settings, and then click on your

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iCloud account name, you can easily identify

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what's taking up all the space, and then select what you do,

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or don't want to sync. Now, certain features don't count towards

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your 5 Gigabyte piton, so there's no real reason to turn them off.

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As for the rest, well, you need to make some tough decisions.

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Personally, I love iMessage, and I don't ever delete messages.

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So, my 5 Gigabyte allotment will be used to synchronize messages between all my devices.

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But you might like your iCloud email, and decide that's what you want using that space.

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I don't know what Sarah wants to use the space with.

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Okay so, what do you actually want to save on your iCloud? - What about my photos?

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- Can't do that. - Mm hmm. - You could save your messages though.

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- No, don't need to do that. - Backups.

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- Oh, sure. - All right. Sounds good. (soft piano music)

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All right. - Now, I think we probably should deal with

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what's taking up, all this iCloud. For Sarah, it's photos.

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It's always photos. Back in 2013, it was the Camera Roll ballooning

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iCloud Backups. Now it's iCloud Photos.

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And if you've turned on Messages in iCloud, well, it's not the text.

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There's probably a bunch of photos and gifs in there, taking up space, too.

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So, if you don't want to pay Apple, you're going to have to save your photos elsewhere.

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And that's not that straightforward. When you set up a new iPhone or Apple ID,

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iCloud Photos is turned on by default, whether you like it or not.

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If you want to pay for iCloud Storage, it's not a terrible service.

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Allowing all the photos you take to be easily synced, and available, on all your devices.

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But most people don't know it's turned on, and they could easily fill it up with one birthday party.

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So, if you don't want to fill your free iCloud Storage, you'll have to turn it off.

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And then, make sure you turn it off when you set up your new phone forever more.

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Now, I'm sure you still want to save your important photos from your phone.

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And before June of this year, the easy answer was Google Photos.

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It gave unlimited storage of your iPhone Photos, and video, for free.

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But, that's over now. So you have to consider a few other options.

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The first, is lightening DVD Drive. Now, yes, it's less than 5 gigabytes,

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but you can always grab more, by simply adding..

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Obviously, I'm just kidding. Though, there is an app in into App Store

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called Nero AirBurn. A good option might in fact be, Amazon Prime Photos,

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which offers unlimited storage for photo uploads, but not for video.

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You only get 5 gigabytes for those. Another option and shhh, don't tell anyone,

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is that you might already have cloud storage with work, or school.

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So if they use Google, you can use Google Photos the way you used to.

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Or, if your organization uses Office 365,

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One Drive supports automatic photo uploading, deep in the app too.

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Just understand that it's not a forever guarantee because, God forbid you lose your job, or finish school,

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or something. And it might be against policy or something, but shhhh, can be our little secret.

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Another convenient alternative is iCloud Photo Stream.

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It, is a service that predates iCloud Photos. Basically, it stores photos from the last month,

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in the cloud, and downloads the last thousand of them to your other devices,

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and permanently saving them, into your computer. The catch is that, you might not be able to use it

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since it's no longer available with newer accounts. Sarah and I do have it available, but my sister doesn't.

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So your mileage, may vary. And if you don't have it,

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then you're going to have to manually plug in your phone into your computer,

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and use the Image Capture App, or the Photos App, on both your Mac, and Windows, if you have a PC.

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Now, if you don't have a at all, I do have one last solution.

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It's one of these little flash drives,

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with the lightning plug. This one is the SanDisk IXpand Flash Drive Go,

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and it cost me $40 dollars for 128 gigabytes of storage.

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That's the same as 13 months of 200 gigabytes of iCloud Storage, but this, I can keep forever.

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It uses an included app that pops up prompting you,

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to backup your photos when you plug it in. But I would describe the interface as mediocre, at best.

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And it has one of the most dangerous pop-ups I've ever seen once it's done.

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(somber music) Uhhh, what do I, do not delete.

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So be very careful which button you press.

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Ultimately though it does the job as a convenient way to backup photos, from your iPhone,

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without relying on the cloud. And, if you need to, flip it over,

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and it'll plug into any old USB port to transfer the files to another device.

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(upbeat music) - Okay so then, how do you wanna back up your photos

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if you can't back them up on iCloud Photo? - Well, I already download them onto my laptop.

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- Really? - Yeah. - Great. Now, before we delete the photos off iCloud,

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we need to back them up to the iPhone.

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Sarah has a lot of space on her phone, so she can fit the photos already uploaded to iCloud.

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Since it won't be over 5 gigabytes, you probably will be fine too. But if not, you can download the photos onto your computer,

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in the Photos App. You'll have to turn off iCloud Photos on all of your devices, anyway.

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So, in Settings, go into iCloud, go to iCloud Photos, and then select download,

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and keep originals. Once those have been downloaded, and you've copied them to your photo storage of choice,

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you can click on the extremely scary, Disable and Delete setting.

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Now don't worry, it only deletes the copies stored in iCloud.

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(high-pitched sound) Some of your photos stored in iCloud

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are not downloaded on this iPhone. These photos will be permanently deleted from iCloud

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in 30 days. To avoid losing them, download and keep originals before continuing.

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But I did that.

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Why, is it saying this? (hands hitting the table)

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(high-pitch voice speaking in background) We have to see what's on your iCloud.

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So do you want to just.. - How are we gonna do that? - Just go to icloud.com and login, with your apple ID.

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Okay, so you can click on photos. - Wow, I didn't even know this existed

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to be completely honest with you. And I've been using apple products for my entire life.

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- Congratulations. - Okay, Photos.

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(Jonathan laughs) - It's blank. - There's nothing there.

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- Some of the photos.. - Who cares? - Click on hidden. Yeah, I guess who it is who cares.

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- Cause they are in like in my photos, on my laptop, anyways.

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- I don't understand. - [Instructor] So you're comfortable

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clicking Continue Anyway? - [Sarah] Yep. - [Jonathan] To delete everything off your iCloud. - [Sarah] Is that it?

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- [Jonathan] Yeah. Now you have 30 days to undo it, if, you can't find a photo.

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- Nice. (bouncy piano music)

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- Now we'll want to turn on, Backups. Which, on Sarah's phone they are actually already on,

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she just hasn't been backing up cause there's no space.

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Okay, so I realized that a backup without photos might not seem useful, but it saves other things too.

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Like Settings, Messages, Wi-Fi passwords, home screen icon layouts, and anything saved within apps.

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It's that last one though that can end up causing some problems.

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Thankfully, there is an easy way to trim your Backup down to size.

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When you go into Settings, and you go to your iCloud, you can click on Manage Storage, and then click on Backups.

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There, you can delete crusty old Backups, from long gone phones, or manage more precisely

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what's getting backed up, even down to individual apps.

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Let me show you on my phone, for example. Take the Burger King App.

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It requires a king size 117 megabytes of backup space.

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For what? flip the switch off, click Turn Off and Delete,

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and I've saved myself a Whopper. Now, you can scroll through here,

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and if there are any apps where you don't care if what you did in that app gets saved,

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you can switch it off, and move on. McDonald's requires 89 megabytes?

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And then Teams on my phone wanted over 500 megabytes.

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If leaving out any of this critical data gives you anxiety, there is one other alternative.

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Remember iTunes Backup? Well, it still exists.

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But now it's found in the Finder Window, on your Mac.

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In the Device Sync Management Page, merely select backup to your computer,

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and it'll do the rest, as long as you have enough storage on your computer.

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I recommend you encrypt the backup, since that allows you to include all personal information

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like health data, just make sure you save the password somewhere.

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This method can also be used on a PC, but it still requires the iTunes Windows App.

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If your computer stays mostly on, you can click the sync with Wi-Fi button.

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Which means your phone will back up when it's charging, and on the same network as your computer.

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And you can always manually trigger a backup if you need to,

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by clicking the Back Up Now button. It's important to remember that, if you are backing your

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phone up to your computer, you should also be backing up said computer too.

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Obviously Time Machine is an excellent way to handle this on a Mac.

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And there are a plethora of supported drives ranging in price from very affordable USB external jobs,

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to exotic and complicated network-attached storage.

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All right, since this is done let's, bring it back to Sarah.

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- Sarah - You're back. - I have good news.

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I have whittled it down to 3.3 gigabytes. - Wow!

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- You are now within your 5 Gigabyte allotment. - Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!

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- How does it feel? - It feels amazing! - Great, yes.

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- Ahhh. - Apple's 5 gigabytes of iCloud Storage, is a morsel.

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It's really a free trial of Apple's iCloud Service and,

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nothing more. You can get it to work, but it requires sacrificing a simple,

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and integrated way to backup photos. And I think it's frankly shocking that there's no

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automatic way of offloading your photos, onto your computer through, Wi-Fi.

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Especially considering that iCloud Photo Stream appears to be, fading to black.

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But, as long as you understand how iCloud works, it is possible to keep those notifications at bay,

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without spending a penny, and still have safe storage, of your precious memories.

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(upbeat music) Thanks for uploading to this Mac Address. Make sure to subscribe.

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And, if you're someone who still isn't paying for iCloud Storage, give us a like.

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I'm curious, if anyone else has been able to manage

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their iCloud Storage, like I have.