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Apparently Junior's cloud is full, something to do with 16,000 photos. Apparently my offer of a couple of photos albums doesn't cut it so any advice on a solution that frees up her cloud while maintaining easy access to her pictures and stuff would be appreciated. I'm not even sure what this means but surely some of you techy young folk will understand. Thanks.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
She would need, however, to be signed up to Microsoft 365, although in the case of my children that has come free as part of their studies in the past.
EDIT: I've just seen you edit, and I think the answer is yes. But best to put them on One Drive first to see it works, before deleting on Apple.
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Techy cloud advice. on 21:19 - Nov 2 with 1642 views
She would need, however, to be signed up to Microsoft 365, although in the case of my children that has come free as part of their studies in the past.
EDIT: I've just seen you edit, and I think the answer is yes. But best to put them on One Drive first to see it works, before deleting on Apple.
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Miss Slave just installed One Drive on her phone and you get 50 somethings of storage for free.
Edit ....are there external storage devices (flash drive?) that can plug in to an iPhone to free up the space that way?
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"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
To be honest, I don't use One Drive on my phone (only on my computer), so there may be something I am missing but it ought to be seamless with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
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Techy cloud advice. on 21:28 - Nov 2 with 1594 views
Techy cloud advice. on 21:28 - Nov 2 by ElderGrizzly
How much storage does she have now?
Having apple photos syncing across to Microsoft isn’t the greatest idea and will be cluncky.
Upping her Apple Storage is the simplest option tbh.
That I can't comment on but if that is a problem I would have thought it would be possible to transfer a lot of photos to the One Drive to free up space, and carry on using the Apple storage as at present, with subsequent transfers as and when necessary to free up space.
But I am no expert.
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Techy cloud advice. on 21:36 - Nov 2 with 1557 views
To be honest, I don't use One Drive on my phone (only on my computer), so there may be something I am missing but it ought to be seamless with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
To get 1TB ‘free’ storage, you have to spend around £50 a year on a personal plan and keep paying it or lose that storage.
You get 5gb free on 365.
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Techy cloud advice. on 21:38 - Nov 2 with 1550 views
That I can't comment on but if that is a problem I would have thought it would be possible to transfer a lot of photos to the One Drive to free up space, and carry on using the Apple storage as at present, with subsequent transfers as and when necessary to free up space.
But I am no expert.
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My point was if someone is going to pay to get Microsoft 365, just pay for more Apple storage. It’s much simpler.
You can also share the Apple plan across family for the same price
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Techy cloud advice. on 21:46 - Nov 2 with 1525 views
Techy cloud advice. on 21:38 - Nov 2 by ElderGrizzly
My point was if someone is going to pay to get Microsoft 365, just pay for more Apple storage. It’s much simpler.
You can also share the Apple plan across family for the same price
That's why I did say "if she has such a subscription". It clearly would be a nonsense to take out a Microsoft 365 subscription just to get more storage on your phone.
EDIT: Your point about a subscription being an ongoing thing is a good one.
For my own part, I use my computer for virtually all tasks, so a Microsoft 365 subscription makes complete sense, especially as it covers other family members.
But I'll butt out now and leave it to the experts.
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Techy cloud advice. on 22:00 - Nov 2 with 1427 views
Either buy a flash drive to transfer the photos over, buy a sub for cloud storage (easiest way), you can have a look at sites like Dropbox - they do have a free account for ex amount of storage, you can just download an app and transfer. Not many options, a flash is more painful
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