Reality of iCloud Storage and Your Photos

Apple's iCloud service and storage offers some amazing ability to share documents and images across all of your compatible devices (Apple products, or iCloud Control Panel for Windows), making much easier to share, view and use your digital content pretty much any time, any where.  This, today, is not new technology necessarily, but is always drawing up questions and how it works.

As a member of the MLTI contract in our state and having an educational Apple ID, Apple has given us 15GB of iCloud storage; which is a lot more storage than what most people have with personal Apple IDs.  What does that mean?

That means that when I create events in my iOS calendar on my iPad or iPhone, that event is automatically added to my Macbook Calendar.  When I create a Pages document on my Macbook and save it in iCloud, I can access and edit that same document on my tablet.  I can save my iPhone pictures to my laptop at home automatically.  This is very handy when you want to quickly access all of your photos and/or share them.  These are just a few features iCloud offers.

There are, however, like anything, some limitations to what iCloud can do that we should be aware of.  iCloud is not designed to be a long-term storage container for your images.  This article from How-to-Geek, explains nicely some of iClouds boundaries when it comes to saving your valuable photos.  Be sure to review this one.

When it comes to valuable digital content, it is always advisable to have a hard drive backup of it; and then another back up of the back up wouldn't hurt.

Also, here is Apple's support page on Frequently Asked Questions regarding iCloud that is very informative.