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iPhone and iPad both are 128gb and both still have 40/50 gb left, but I pay a subscription to apple for extra iCloud storage, do I need this storage if I have plenty storage left on my devices or is it just an apple rip off ?
What would happen if you lost your device(s) or if they broke? Do you have the data backed up elsewhere? Would you be upset if you lost it all? Only you can answer this.
Only you can answer if you are using that extra storage. As alluded above the essential thing you should be doing is making sure you iOS devices are backing up to iCloud. Pay for whatever storage amount you need to do for backups, if your not using it for anything else then don't pay for more than you need - simple.
You’re asking the question the wrong way round. Of course you need cloud storage, it’s safe, secure, accessible from anywhere and doesn’t get lost when you drop a device
the real question is why you need 128gb on devices when everything is stored in the cloud
What Frank says.
50gb is 99p a month, 200GB is £2.99 a month.
you can choose what to back up and it’ll show in your settings what it is using for what.
only you can decide if that’s good value for you.
It depends on your usage. If like me you have several Apple devices you want to share data around then iCloud makes sense. If it's just for backups you should be able to do that to other hardware. I find the 99p/month 50Gb adequate for my use which is mostly photos.
If it’s just for backups you should be able to do that to other hardware.
It might be technically possible, but keeping your backups in the Apple ecosystem so you can just tell it to make your new phone a clone of your old one seems like a big plus for doing it the Apple way.
My phone is backed up on to standalone drive via the Time Machine on my MacBook... presumably that's an alternative to paying a subscription.
You can have a situation where there's only limited things on your device - but iCloud is packed with every last child photo and dog video of the last decade, necessitating a larger volume of data space in the cloud.
You need to check how much data you have in the cloud, not just your devices.
iCloud is worth every penny to us. I currently have 16,259 photos and 2,969 videos backed up to it dating back to 2010. It's worth it for the piece of mind that if I loose my device they're still safe. Think we pay the top £6.99 (might be £8.99 now) per month.
I wouldn't pay extra for more device storage.