I have iCloud+ on a family plan. Gives me Apple TV, Music, Fitness and 2TB of storage. I use it to back up all my photos (with a process to back them up to my local NAS as well as additional cloud storage - AWS Glacier)
I’m on a Mac all day and have an iPhone and iPad, so it works for me.
Some alternatives might be cheaper, but the integrations are too good to pass up.
Exactly the same. Photos in all devices (except work, obvs) file shared on iCloud is on all devices, I’m hooked into the ecosystem now.
iCloud is good, I use it to back up everything outside of my photos since that would exceed my 5gb limit
Just use iCloud with the encryption enabled
Apple One bundle and Backblaze for my desktop as a just in case.
This is EXACTLY my setup too! Very pleased with both.
I use iCloud with family plan. I also get Apple Music, AppleTV+ and Arcade. I did have Buffalo NAS but found cloud easier and didn’t really trust that NAS. All important stuff (apart photos) I backup to local ssd. I probably should backup photos as well.
I’ve started using iCloud fully since they implemented end-to-end encryption, other than that I wouldn’t recommend keeping any (sensitive) data in the cloud if it’s not E2EE
I use my personal Dropbox account, but I also get free 5TB with Onedrive through work, and I’m paying a significant amount yearly ($180?) for 2TB through Dropbox. It may be time to switch, they aren’t so different I feel that the price is worth it to stick with Dropbox anymore.
