Glad you’re back. You’ve been missing in action for way too long long brother. Glad you’re back any hope you don’t disappear for months on end again. Great information Joel. Thanks!

@Learnwithjoel

7 ай бұрын

Thanks @ricwestdoesitwork! It has been too long! Life gets busy with 4 kids and jobs! I don't plan on going away any time soon, just doing my best to create when I can! Thanks for your continued support! So greatly appreciated!

Love the video! So many people misunderstand that iCloud doesn't do file storage or backup, only sync. And that confusion can be dangerous, resulting in file loss. Why doesn't Apple resolve that confusion by offering real storage -- any thoughts? And how might one evaluate and compare third-party cloud storage/backup services, or external drives?

@mrjamesmay3548

6 ай бұрын

Yes I agree and Time Machine can’t work with it either because most folks keep files stored in cloud. So technically no one has a back up. And because they only sell small storage I doubt many people have their’s backed up. Having said that.. I’ve never lost any information in the cloud and I suppose it’s less likely to have a hard drive failure than I am if I store it locally?

Joel, thank you for all your videos. Attempting to get 46,000 photos and 3000 videos to an external hard drive through my Mac. On my desktop where my system library is it says in eligible and has a cloud with a slash through it. I am stuck I don’t know what to do next or what this means. I cannot find it on the Apple site.

So if I'm outside and take a picture, when it shows up on my Imac and I want to keep it from being deleted do I save in on a picture folder on my hard drive?

Very cool videos. Thank you. I would like to clarify about the family subscription. Do I understand that, for example, a plan where there is 200 GB, these gigabytes are returned to all users of the family, and if someone takes 150 GB, then for all other parts 50 GB. Or will everyone get 200 GB for personal use?

@Learnwithjoel

5 ай бұрын

Fantastic question @Jugin27! If you invite others to the Family Sharing, everyone is all collectively sharing the data storage. So if there are 4 people sharing and one person uses 150GB out of the 200GB, that only leaves 50GB for the remaining 3 people! I use Apple Family Sharing a lot as I have a family of 6 and it has it's pros and cons! I should really do a video on Family Sharing! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

@Jugin27

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your hard work. You are great at explaining and putting everything into perspective. I myself know very little English, so I watch subtitles that are translated into a language that I fully understand. Therefore, for me this is also a good opportunity to learn not only the Apple ecosystem, but also to learn English. I'm looking forward to new videos.@@Learnwithjoel

@Learnwithjoel

5 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that @Jugin27! I appreciate your support and Happy learning to you!

so the login for the apple id in settings is just for icloud ?

Does it work with an Andtoid phone ?

So? Getting bigger iCloud subscription will not reduce the file size on my iPhone? Do I need iPhone with 1tb storage or iCloud with 1 tb storage when I have 128gb iPhone

@Learnwithjoel

7 ай бұрын

Great question @tradepandey420! I would say it depends. There is one setting that you can turn on within your iPhone to optimize the storage locally for you Photos and videos, but that's about it. I have a video that talks about this that I will link below for reference. Storage is FULL! - How to OPTIMIZE FILES and FIX your STORAGE PROBLEMS on Macs, iPhones and iPads kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJx7qZign6y0crA.html The big thing is that iCloud is more designed to sync information and often more times than not, users will delete something off their iPhone thinking that it will still be on iCloud, but that's not how it works. As far as what iCloud storage option to get when you have a 128GB iPhone? I always tell users to get equal to what the phone is and then when you're approaching the limit of iCloud storage, then just move up to the next tier if needed. No need to pay for a bunch of storage that you're not using yet! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

Thats why i love andoid phones and google. My iphone is just my secondary phone. Things are so much more seamless with android. And so much less confusing like why cant you just make icloud the id account and just sync all the data to it when you know that when you make an apple id with a gmail account you cant sync the gmail to you iphone. Why do you need this confusion? Apple users be like oh but the ecosystem bla bla. I have android and imac and ios and windows and trust me no one does it better than google. I use google for my iphone. Calender notes apps everything.

Does it work with an Android phone or have to be an Iphone one?

@Learnwithjoel

5 ай бұрын

Hi @user-qw7mz4tg6m! Does what work with an Android? You could create an iCloud account/Apple ID from any device. Certain aspects of an iCloud account won't sync on an android like you see in this video, but you could certainly create an iCloud account. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

One thing that frustrates me with iCloud is I have moved over to the 6TB option and I want to use iCloud as a repository for files I want to access from different Macs which all have 1TB hard drive space. The second I upload footage to my iCloud drive on my Mac Studio, my Macbook Pro automatically starts downloading it and eating up space on the MBP. Then I have to manually go in and right-click and remove downloads. I just wish Apple would give us the option to upload whatever files we want in the cloud drive and then manually decide if we want a file/folder to automatically download or set it to manually download files as needed.

@Learnwithjoel

7 ай бұрын

Hi @30DayFilmmaker! I 100% agree! Even with the option for "Optimize Mac Storage", it will still download the files. According to Apple, files will be removed and offloaded after 30 days when not in use, but I think there's definitely room for improvement here on Apple! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

There is no "button" to force a sync but if you pull up the photos page, as you would when pulling down to refresh a web page, it will force a resync so you don’t have to wait

@Learnwithjoel

7 ай бұрын

I love the tip @LazyJones! I swear that works most of the time, but I have a stubborn iPad that it just doesn't seem to do that with. It says synced within Photos app, but if you go into the iCloud Settings within Photos, it shows not being synced for several minutes. Either way, definitely something to try! Thanks for suggesting! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

@LazyJones

7 ай бұрын

@@Learnwithjoel Before I posted my suggestion I was paranoid about giving bad advice so I tested it a few times across 4 devices without issue. Maybe you have a shadow-ban style lag added by Apple 😀

@Learnwithjoel

7 ай бұрын

@LazyJones, no worries. I may have too many Apple devices with too many Apple ID’s 😊 Thanks for the tip!

Great video! and can we all just appreaciate that he can show us iphone screens like that, instead of Zollotech and a few others who have to show their gnarly hands and wierd hand movements everytime they show us a new thing on the iphone?

@Learnwithjoel

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate that you like my teaching and production style @Stig84! Lots of great content out there on KZread! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

Si.

@Learnwithjoel

5 ай бұрын

Hi @user-qw7mz4tg6m! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!