Do you store your photos in Apple Cloud?

[House4Me]

Do you store all your home photos and videos in the Apple Cloud? They make it sound so easy to use and share between different devices….? Only catch I see is they want $20/month for 1T of memory… 

[momin2013]

I fear the cloud.

Really, I do. I've heard of too many people's personal photos etc. getting "hijacked".

[mannah]

I do! No issues so far. I also use shutterfly.

[bowies]

We use Amazon Photo (free with Prime, though video is extra), Shutterfly, and an external hard drive.

[darnkatz]

No. I use Dropbox.

[House4Me]

Apr 29, 2015 12:26:15 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

I fear the cloud.

Really, I do. I've heard of too many people's personal photos etc. getting "hijacked".

This is what a Think to but why? What are people doing with their hijacked photos and are they specific to photos that were uploaded in the Apple cloud or another software?

[SJ]

No, I use Flickr. It is synced to both our phones and iPhoto. I have also uploaded years of old photos to it from a hard drive, and DH uses it as well. It scans for duplicates.

[niq]

Flickr has 1T for free, which is about eleventy hojillion pictures, but maybe ONLY 20,000 if you take a lot of video. For $50/year you get ad free and unlimited storage. I only upload the good pictures (maybe 1 out of every 5 that I take) mostly because the 50th picture of "April 24th at the playground" isn't that exciting.

I have a 4T NAS in the closet with all the originals, plus other Media and documents (taxes, product manuals, warranties, etc) and I have crash plan for backups of everything.

[MadamePresident]

So far I let things sync to Google. We also have a huge hard drive at home.

[Deleted]

Can I admit here that while my photos get stored on iCloud, i have no idea how to access it?

And a couple weeks ago almost all my photos on my iPhone went away, yet it still says i have 2000+ photos there.

[ssmjlm]

My iPhone syncs to dropbox. DH syncs to google drive.

Main computer is backed up with carbonite (which is $60/year).

[linz]

I'm glad you posted this. I use Shutterfly for all my pictures and just realized they have an app so can now download pics straight from my phone. I usually about once a week plug my phone into my computer and then download them.

[momin2013]

Apr 29, 2015 12:55:44 GMT -5 House4Me said:

Apr 29, 2015 12:26:15 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

I fear the cloud.

Really, I do. I've heard of too many people's personal photos etc. getting "hijacked".

This is what a Think to but why? What are people doing with their hijacked photos and are they specific to photos that were uploaded in the Apple cloud or another software?

No idea, really, since I've never uploaded this way. Most recent thing I heard about was on the Kardashians, (so maybe not exactly IRL), but still, freaks me out a little to think people could somehow access them.

[greencrayon]

I have a TB of dropbox, where my everything is stored, lol. I do have 20GB of icloud space, but I probably will not renew that. Dropbox4lyf.

[magpie]

no, I use a combination of dropbox and flickr. Dropbox is simply where our phones back up. Flickr is where we make a more curated storage site (only the best, all organized into albums). I have unlimited storage there for $25/year.