Question about iCloud storage
Question about iCloud storage
I have a 50GB plan that is almost used up. My wife has a Apple One plan 200GB that she shared with our family (including me), but my phone only syncs to my 50GB plan.
If I cancel my 50GB plan, data would still be available for 30 days. Would the data automatically transfer to a new plan, e.g. my wife’s Apple One plan? Or what happens when she cancels her Apple One plan and I start a new one? Would her data transfer over to the one I would buy and share?
Documentation on this is not clear, and I don’t want to lose my data.
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The 200GB is shared between everyone on the family sharing plan. Did your wife set up family sharing and invite your account? If not, that needs to be done, then the 200GB will show up on your device. I would get this set up first so you see the extra 200GB, then cancel your 50GB plan. That way you know you are covered by a storage plan and not trying to rush to set something up before 30 days expire.
She is sharing it with me properly, but apparently my own 50GB plan (which I have had longer) is overriding her share with me?
If anything I would expect it to show as 250GB for you. At one point my wife had signed up for the 200GB family plan but still had an active 200GB personal plan that she shared as well, so it showed as 400GB available.
https://osxdaily.com/2021/07/29/how-share-icloud-storage-family-iphone-ipad/
For some reason it doesn’t. Also, our kids are still on my 50GB plan I initially shared with them, but would be able to switch over to my wife‘s plan now. I just don’t know, whether their data (especially photos) would seamlessly transfer over?
Looks like my wife didn’t have the sharing checkbox for iCloud storage selected — which is distinct from the Apple One Abonnement which includes the storage. Oh well, looks fine now. And the data didn’t get lost.
Glad its all sorted out now!