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> What does the iPhone not having space to store all of your photos have to do with using iCloud? Because iCloud is a big part of their lock-in strategy. The i
by willtim 8y ago
> What does the iPhone not having space to store all of your photos have to do with using iCloud?
Because iCloud is a big part of their lock-in strategy. The issue is not about transferring a few photos adhoc from a phone. It is about having potentially terabytes of family movies and photos stored and organised on iCloud. Like I said, there is a financial incentive for them to make it difficult for people to move away. There is no easy way to transfer everything off, including all metadata.
- fundingshovel 8y agohttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055 It's pretty well supported?
- LeftTurnSignal 8y agoIf they stored terabytes of any data on a cloud based system, wouldn't they run into the same issues? I think I sort of get where OP is coming from, but I can't say I ran into the same issues. Ive personally used the export / archive features of iCloud when i went from iOS to android. the longest part was waiting for the pics / vids to download from icloud and upload to google drive. I even exported stuff out of google's ecosystem and back into iCloud when I moved back. This was a month or two ago. I know many many years ago I had issues with iCloud, but that was before they fixed / improved their web interface (and everything else).
- willtim 8y agoAs I said, you can only export the original media files and none of the organisation/folders/albums/tags. An analogy might be a filesystem where you can copy files out but not the folder structure.