Why You Should Disable iCloud Photo Library (& What to Use Instead)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- One of the new features in iOS called iCloud Photo Library is definitely not helping. This feature, while in theory, allows you to backup all of your photos and videos on any of your iOS or MacOS devices to the cloud, takes up precious iCloud storage and adds up really quickly. Most people I know have run out of storage just from iCloud backups (another issue I have with iOS, but I digress) so adding this is almost a sure-fire way to guarantee you run out of iCloud storage.
There is a better way though. I touched on this in a video a long time ago about backing up your photos and videos but think we need to revisit the concept. You should turn off iCloud Photo Library and instead use another free service like, say, Google Photos which automatically backs up all of your photos and videos in an unlimited quantity for free.
So here's how we do that.
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With Google nothing is "free" YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
not google but also "Apple" itself
Literally the same with Apple idk what ur on about
Isn't that true for other companies?
Not really, with apple, nothing is free and you are the product.
Enjoy your “free” advertising, face recognition, location data leaching and unsolicited emailing from Google recommended companies, guys. 👍😁
If it’s free, you are the product.
This. No fucking WAY is google getting their hands on my photos. There IS a reason it’s free. ABSOLUTELY. This dude is seriously causing harm by not mentioning that.
jotty exactly
Exactly the guy misses the whole point. First of all it’s not free. Google backs you into a corner and then you have to pay for it later. They will eventually charge for it if nothing else in advertently through tying into Google drive storage. Also he doesn’t mention the value in the apple ecosystem. iCloud photo library etc. can improve but between theThe two options I think it’s better
They're actually using your photos to train their AI. That's why you can search photos like "dogs" and It'll show you pics of dogs in your photos.
Jeff Bommarito he said google PHOTOS not google DRIVE
There is no way it’s switch to google photos. I’d rather pay for iCloud then give google even more data.
Good for you!
Arent you using youtube though?
Personally, I think it’s worth paying a small amount of money for your privacy than giving it up to save a buck or two per month. Our personal information is going to be a commodity in the future if not now. We just saw how much data Facebook has on everyone.
Honestly, back up the phone every 3 months and delete photos of your dinner and the 4-15 selfies you shot before getting the right one and you’ll almost never run out of space.
"back up the phone every 3 months and delete photos" > This is exactly what I do. Apple positioned themselves perfectly to make an aircraft carrier of cash.
"Apple’s services division (Apple Music and iCloud) has been the company’s second strongest source of revenue behind iPhones since April 2016" - Verge, Apple 2017 Annual Report
"Revenue from its services division came in at $8.5 billion in the past quarter, a 34 percent year over year increase" - Verge, Apple 2017 Annual Report
I agree. It's like 1$ which is less than a Doritos chips bag for an extra 50 GBs
Coming from the person commenting on TH-cam with a device that is connected to the internet. 🤔 If you own a phone your data is collected some how some way.
I do both. What if something happens, and everything is lost on one?Remember when 401-k’s were safe? Don’t have all the eggs in one basket. No freaking way.
dragngt but what if we dont use social medias like facebook and twitter
I only use instagram and youtube
Finally I found how to close that annoying popup and free out some cloud storage! Thanks brotha♥
Great video, maybe you forgot to mention that google photos should be open so you can upload it “automatically” and that it’s too slow. I have the same issue with TH-cam red, Spotify. I switched to iCloud storage and Apple Music for convenience because only these services will sync in the background.
I’m so happy that you made this video, I’ve been having this problem that I cannot watch my videos when I don’t have internet access. And when I do, I usually have to wait for the video to be downloaded from iCloud. And ever since I noticed that thing happening, I wanted to stop it so badly. I couldn’t even import my videos I recorded into my video editors on my phone without WiFi, and I usually edit them outside. After watching this video, and turn that annoying crap off and can finally live a happy life.
Correction: There is a common misconception in this Video. All photos are compressed when uploading in high quality mode in Google photos, but photos of larger than 16 MP are both compressed and resized to 16 MP. This is why the Google Pixel 2 has 2 years of unlimited original quality uploads, despite the camera being less than or equal 16 MP.
If you want to test it out, try uploading using the high res option and compare the MD5 or the file sizes.
TL,DR: All photos uploaded via "high quality" to Google Photos are compressed, but photos larger than 16 MP are both compressed and resized to 16 MP. Use original quality to avoid compression and resizing.
Hadi Tamimi exactly! And videos are a whole new story. Google compressed them so much that I couldn't use them for anything. I've been through this "save your money on not using iCloud" thing, for me it just didn't work out.
Pxel Guy For me, I use the office 365 1 Tb monthly subscription for $6 to sync files between my iPhone, Android and Blackberry10. But when it comes to app backups, (At least for non jail broken iPhones) there is only one option....
Why own a Apple device when you still have to run to Google for free storage for your photos?
Scott Griffin So if you have apple products you only can use iCloud ? That’s a crazy saying I must say.
Scott Griffin Totally True statement- however on the other hand, since my good friends over at Apple are such liberal thinkers (to say the least) -
They should be appalled 😯 that any company would charge their customers in a way for particular service when these said companies should offer it for free!!!!
Especially since they care so much about the 🌎 environment as well as Human Rights being protected however they choose to manufacture their products utilizing the cheapest - environmentally destructive ,
child loaded, cheapest labor forces in the world.... totally boggles my mind how Apple preaches their morals on so many of these topics and continue them yet their die hard clientele still worship them....
How do I put my gallery back to its original form? With high resolution photos and videos before “optimizing storage”?
Subscribed! I like your down-to-earth style and simple, helpful info! Thanks! :)
FINALLY, I have been looking for a long time for answers on icloud, and how to get rid of it. I want my photos on physical storage. I have been paying the .99 for years, and I want out of it! Thank you so much! Great video!!
Love this series, as usual great video!
I was gonna do this but the comments are saying otherwise😂
I’m still doing it
Manar Kebri did it work?
Manar Kebri what happened
Manar Kebri same
I’ve been doing this for 3 years on my Android. About three months ago I switched to iPhone and my iCloud is full now. So I would recommend it
SCREW THAT! Give one of the biggest tracking services more of your personal info. No thanks!
I’m so glad I found this, thank you!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My photos were all messed up for like 2 weeks and using one of your methods helped so much!!!
Thank you so much!!! I needed this!!
Thank you so much for the info. This has saved me so much time and money. You’re the best!!
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Yup I’m outta storage with my photos. Thanks for the tip!
I had google pics then I got rid of it, don’t know what you got until it’s gone. Was on the right track just had to get rid of iCloud. Live and learn. Thank you.
Thank you So So much!! iCloud Library has made a nightmare and i never knew there was this fix. Already tried it--works great and no charge:)
I only use iCloud for my contacts. That's it. Everything else is synced on iTunes with a USB wire to my laptop. Works every time haha!
Jess Barnett You can enable Wi-Fi sync so that the backups to iTunes happen automatically over your home Wi-Fi direct from your phone to your computer.... then you don’t need to have the cable even.
lol thats what I do. The "old school" way.
Wow, this video has so much misinformation. Google Photos cuts your resolution in half regardless of the MP cap. Also, you're giving all your information to Google no matter what.
chemicalsam in my country some perverts hacked google and stole women’s naked pictures and send them on whatapp adding them to years of years of packs they gather
lvia lviaquez god forbid...
Thank you so Much!!! I’ve had so much trouble with icloud and my photos and didn’t know how to get rid of it or where to put them!!
I appreciate you so much for your help!!
I was already practicing this... But yeah good you made a video about it for others. Thanks much!
I have to agree I have so many photos I nearly took up all of my storage in my iPhone cuz if my pics and music i moved from my android. So I switch everything over to Google photos I recovered a lot of storage after deleting a lot of photos off the iPhone itself and I'm about to stop paying a monthly rate to Apple for storage because I have unlimited storage with my Google photos app. By the way I'm not new to Google photos I've always had Android phones, and I've never lost photos in Google photos or docs or music in Google Drive whenever I switch devices and I still have my information after switching over to Apple. I am a first time iPhone user so I was stoked to learn that I could download Google photos and Google Drive and bring my pictures, music and docs from my old Android to my iPhone and not have to worry about wasting any storage and pay money to Apple:)
Finally someone supporting the guy
This was amazingly awesome, necessary & thoroughly explained information!!
Thank you! 🙏
Keep doing these every Tuesday please
I like just knowing HOW to do things like this & alternatives & options, awesome video
Google will scale down your photos after a certain amount of time.
Thank you. Helpful and to the point!
Awesome review & great tip!👍🏾
The I cloud is great and it’s worth every penny for a peace of mind like others said a cup of coffee is more than a monthly charge for the iCloud. No going anywhere.
This one really helped meeeee
This information is extremely useful. Thanks!
Sounds awesome. Would the switch affect the organization in the library? And how long does it take to bring up a photo?
I had maxed out my storage with the photo's. After I deleted the photo's, it says that I still have used 4.6 GB out of 5 GB.
Same
I use both. Why not? And it’s double the backup. I don’t trust any one service to be infallible
what great advice - really appreciate you taking me through the steps. I had never really got this before. We share photos through google photos anyway across my business and all these photos go on fb anyway so google has your content anyway.
OMG so helpful 😩😩😩 thank youuuu
If we have learned anything in recent years regarding Google it is that anything they give for free comes at a cost. And most of us can't possibly even fathom the real cost. You give them your personal information, likes/dislikes, photos, location, shopping habits... all of which they sell and share with God knows who. And in exchange, you receive a "free" service. I would never use them to store my personal photo library. With face recognition being as advanced as it is, you are essentially compromising the privacy of any friend or family member that is also in your photos. I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy nut. All of these uses and abuses by Google are well documented.
"I would never use them to store my personal photo library" -- thats the truth. I basically only use their calendar service.
You guys really think giving info to Apple is any better? Hahahahahahahaha
1$ is not much.
Dominik Wiechowski LOL i thought you was me.
Cheaper than pandora plus
1$ for what?
Nicky Lema icloud storage DUH
Well I didn’t know obviously 🙄
After backup & sync Can we delete the photos from iphone internal storage.
So that i am able to free some space in iphone
That was a good one bro. Thanks 👍. I just subscribed to you👍
I have the $3 family sharing plan with 5 people and about 8 devices and we're using about 25% of our capacity so there's plenty of room for photo storage and backups
But I don’t want Google to have all my private photos
Tony Stark I don't trust Google too, but to be fair, iCloud had its fair share of security concerns.
Hadi Tamimi iCloud did not security issues, users with easy passwords to hack was the issue, like movie stars using their dog’s name.
Kim Luc Schlesser I think that Apple has stated that they can’t access those pictures though.They’re encrypted server side as well. Google on the other hand accesses their pictures to build their algorithm for processing pictures when taking pics from their Pixel phones. They’re phones rely heavily on their software processing. If anyone knows differently please chime in.
Yup this is where apple is different from google. Apple is concern to not selling your data to anyone. It's main business is selling hardware + software. Google, on the other hand, rely its business on advertising. Company pays Google for their great user data collection. Google know what to recommend to you almost perfectly because it has your data.
That's why I choose apple over google.
Kim Luc Schlesser Only if you own the data servers
Thank you so much! This was very helpful and I have so much more iCloud space now.
Thank you so much you really really helped me out a lot I will subscribe & like
this is what i have been doing in since day 1 👍
I have private photos, don’t want them auto saved anywhere.
lisa groves private photos?? Gross
😂😂
HAHAHAHAH this is so funny imagine, You’re account was borrowed by your friend
Who are you people? You certainly know nothing about me how truly strange to make comments about someone you don’t know but proves the point of why one wouldn’t want their photos made public randomly.
lisa groves lol
Thanks I kept on running out of storage and kept on getting the notification❤️
Omg this totally worked thank you so so much!
2:23 *WTF ?? 1.99 PetaBytes ???*
Yes! I thought the same! WTRF!??
why are there so many angry people commenting... it's just a video lol
Preston Adkins they’re comments for a reason
Preston Adkins I think this country has turned into a bunch of whiners!🇺🇸
Because this bonehead is telling everyone what they SHOULD do- and it's not better, it's stupid and reckless because it comes with many downsides.
Wait do you go to sds?
Thanks! Great concise summary video!
Wow.... you really know your stuff. Appreciate the video. Liked and Subscribed.
First off, this isn't even remotely new, iCloud library has existed for over 2 years so I'm already questioning your knowledge of apple products. Secondly, if you're integrated into the Apple ecosystem and have more than just an iPhone the $1 / mth makes much more sense, especially with apple's new compression file format for photos and videos. It's much easier to be able to use third party apps to edit the photos and have the edits be instantly available on other devices rather than having the Google app convert the photos to JPEG then have you download them individually onto your phone / computer to edit them then reupload them to the app.
It kills the fluidity of the ecosystem, takes a step back and also gives Google access to all your photos and you could accidentally make your entire library public at the flip of a switch. To that you may say well hey didn't a bunch of people get their icloud photos hacked, yes they did but what they failed to make clear in the news of that was that it was done through phishing emails, fake emails sent to people asking for their password which they put in because they're dumb. Anyways you get my drift, if you have an iPhone you can afford the $1 a month to fuel the system and your life will be made much easier with your photos easily available to you all the time and all the time uploading rather than you having to download a photo to use it and then remember to check if the app is backing up your photos.
You Make A Good Plausible Point, But I Still Think Google Photos Is Better. But Of Course, That's Relative.
Old or new I found the info good to know, probably won’t change over to google but now I can make that call.
And Btw Dylan, some people are new at this game, that’s why they’re watching the video, doesn’t make em dumb. You best watch something else.
To be fair to Dylan , his point is that iCloud wasn't hacked , people gave away their password ; however new you might be , surely people know that the only way to keep private things private is not to divulge passwords .
I know nothing about this stuff, but my photos take up so much storage on my phone. I do like the ability to not have to go to my computer to find old photos. What is the difference? Do you have a recommendation. So confused? I want more storage on my phone but don't want to delete them all is there a middle ground?
But what if you get a new phone and yeah you’ve been paying a dollar a month for nothing
I don’t trust Google with anything. And the iCloud service is not really that expensive. :-)
I trust Google more than Apple........no question
Eli T. Iceman In other words Google gives/sells your information and Apple is using your information themselves. So I would rather send my information to Apple then Google.
Apple uses Google Cloud for their iCloud storage :) so, either way your data ends up in Google servers.
Brett McNary foolish to trust either of them.
Then don’t use it nobody is forcing you to use google photo thats your insecurity
Been doing this since my Android days. Thanks for sharing the info!
An really alternative would be to use no Cloud Service :) I had managed my photos over years by myself on my NAS but since a few months we (Family) use shared iCloud Storage for the photos (and other stuff) and it is great.
My friend, this video of yours is excellent, very useful and helpful, so can you do one showing us, your subscribers, how to stop all the apps from using iCloud all together and use an alternative instead. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!!!
I think the best way to really store your photos is to use external SSD and have 2 SSD's in case one fails. I do that every time mi phone gets full, and I always erase bad taken photos on the spot so I don't clutter my SSD. Of course I have google as back up in case my phone dies.
Hi David I have a question. Once I have backup all photos on google photos if I go to my photos library on my iPhone X and delete them I am not able to see them anymore on my google photos either. There is a way of keeping them on google photos so I can delete them from my library on my phone to free up some space but without loosing them forever? Am I missing something? Is there any bottom that I should click to keep these photos secured on the google photos?
New sub here! Thanks for the tips ♥️
iCloud storage for backups and photos is a blessing, not a "problem". You don't know how many times people have come to me over the years, after losing their precious photos, or wrecking their phones and losing all their contacts. And no, they never have a backup, or at least a current one. Oh yes, they backed up their photos THREE YEARS ago, one time, but nothing current or automatic. That's the genius of iCloud backups - they're automatic! So no, I'm not going to use a kludge with Google Photos, I'm using iCloud. In fact, I'm on the family plan, so all my devices, my wifes, my Mom's and my sisters ARE BACKED UP! Whew! Problem solved ;-) All that for just $3 a month for 200GB of storage for the family. A huge bargain!
you know thats exactly what google photos does ? backing up automatically nothing more
Them losing their precious data is because of THEIR fault of not backing up. When i have a working external drive and back up my files on that and really just dont need the icloud then it becomes a "problem" and you have to disable it so the notes app on your mac stops giving me buy icloud pop ups and really do what it suposed to do. Taking real notes!
If I disable ICloud Photos, would I lose my photos from the camera roll (the App)?
Thank you
Ftoun Almutairi
I’m still trying to find the answer to this.
Did you come across anything?
Ftoun Almutairi i have the answer
If you re running low on iphone storage, they will make the photos that has already been on the icloud photo storage “suckier” so you can redownload it on your phone later
Now if you were to dissable it, all the photos you have in your icloud AND the “suckified” version on your phone
I’ve made the mistake of neglecting this feature and have 70% of my photo “suckified” so if i were to dissable it, i will lose like 10-15 GB worth of photos and videos so i hope you dont make the mistake i did
Aperson101 hey do you mind clarifying a bit? what exactly was your mistake?
Thanks for that information iCloud are doing my head in about upgrading storage all the time. 👍🏽
thank you for this, helped a lot !
If u delete them on the photo Library Library do they stay on there
What happens if it keeps saying “ iCloud full “ when it’s full space on iCloud?
Jery Ori I have that same question
It's nice to have options, nice tutorial.
I want to backup my complete iphone on icloud, like the one you do it with wire on macs. With icloud photo disabled and iphone backup enabled. Will my regular scheduled backups over the cloud will include my locally stored pictures also?
After turning off iCloud backup, should I click remove from library or download photos & videos?
pshyeah1128 I have the same question
So this is basically an ad for Google Drive. Yeah, no thanks.
+Kram Sacul Google photos, not drive. Which is the only service like this I've found that is completely free. That's why I chose it. Feel free to leave some suggestions of other similar services that are free for this if you have another you prefer and works as well.
Amazing tip! Glad I came across your video
Wow thank you I just sub to your channel and followed your advise of disabling iCloud I was contemplating if I should pay the storage since it ran out
It’s not that big of a deal because it’s cheap for more storage. Also I love iCloud Photo Library because I can access them anywhere and on every device and it helps since it is part of the ecosystem. Way easier since it is built in so it’s easy to access. I don’t have to use a 3rd
Party system like google photos where it’s harder to use and I have to download an app
But you don’t have to pay,
Are you sure Google doesn't touch your pictures that are less than 16mp? I upload to Google photos and when set on high quality I always see the resolution is less than original (in MB)
Google recompresses all photos under 16MP, so they definitely are not untouched. The resolution is "supposed to be" the same, but well, this is a company that's making you the product.
They DO compress them. This guy doesn't know what's he's taking about
Really helpful! thank you - so new for me and you have helped me so much!
Great tips, subbed!
The problem with the Google photos app is that the app won’t back up any photos or videos unless the app is open and running. The moment you minimize or close the app, the backup stops. Very annoying. Dropbox can sync in the background. Why doesn’t Google have this fixed?
Bro you just need to go to settings and select “Backup in background” and google photos will start backing up photos and even videos in the background as well...:-)
I agree in principle, BUT what he leaves out is when you turn off CLOUD STORAGE in the Apple IOS, it deletes your photos from all devices. You MUST make sure any photos stored on your device BEFORE you turn it off.
How ?
FANTASTIC...You helped me to FINALLY get rid of the annoying message that says "Need To Update Storage" on my iPhone and iPad.
Why didn’t you show us the remove from iPhone pop up that comes when you try to disable it?
I distrust google more than I distrust Apple.
Mike Tindol absolutely, but Apple is right up there with Google as your post implied!
Mike Tindol yup! Privacy does not benefit any of alphabet’s businesses at all.
The problem with Google Photos is that it's not actually free: you are paying for it with your private data. They use it for marketing, research, face recognition, "3rd party services," and essentially are making a huge profit off of your data which you agree to in their terms of service. Additionally, Apple's default photo format is PNG which has higher quality in colors than JPEG (a lossy format, meaning you lose quality for editing). This is why a 4mb photo in PNG turns into a 1.5mb JPEG in Google's "high quality" format, perhaps even less once they compress it.
Apple is HEAVILY committed to protecting privacy. So much so that the FBI complains about it. One might ask, "why should I be concerned about privacy?" Watch the documentary about Snowden and the NSA. If you still don't care, more power to ya.
THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH HELP YOU ARE
OMG!! What a coincidence 😱😱😱
I was suffering from that issue & just actually thought the same idea what everything you've told, then watch this video, and my mind BOOOOM!!
i dont even backup my phone anymore 😂😂😂 rip
jnmks same
Can anyone help me, so I had 5 gb on my iCloud storage and need to back up my phone but can’t due to not having enough storage. That is because I had a lot of photos and videos, so after deleting hundreds of photos, I not have under 100 photos/videos. But on my iCloud it still says I have 4.2 gb of photos somehow. Please help me
Hi David, Does it Copy and transfer all photos stored in Apple iCloud or just the photos on the device?
BRO YOU ARE THE BEST I CLEARED SO MUCH SPACE BRO! YOU DESERVE A LOT! TYSM!
You're right the $2.99 a month is killing me........
Lol
Yet we have 1300€/1000$ phones on our pockets.
There are some concerns with Google Photos, which would have been nice to include in the video as a full disclosure. Privacy issues and file compression are two reasons why I choose not to use Google Photos. But it is a good how-to video. Keep up the good work.
Justin Y Google's the only one who knows anything about your photos when you store it with them it stays with send Google it's very secure and the compression doesn't affect most pictures from a phone if you're going to use your DSLR yeah you have problems
But the privates of celebrities released over iCloud is not an issue?
Damn I never thought about that great job brother...
Thank you so much! this was way faster than iCloud backup for my pictures.
I'm happy storing a few photos and backups on the same place and I don't trust Google anymore than Apple. I actually have less trust in Google than in Apple...for now.
So, between 2 evils...I keep iCloud for now
What you call a downside, for many, including me, is a great feature. I get that it will eat up storage. But just as you chose to have an unlimited data cellular plan (me too, gotta have it), I choose to have enough storage to allow for my photo library to be automatically and seamlessly managed. I make a change on my iPhone, then it shows up with those changes on my iPad and MacBook Pro. No uploading/downloading/nuking duplicates, etc. So again, just as you could save $10/20/30 bucks a month with a more limited cell data plan, anyone could save $10 a month and explore third party options for cheaper storage. But just as you see value in unlimited data, I see value in paying $9.99/mo. for 1TB of storage and seamless management of what has become the most important feature in a smartphone: the camera and resulting photos. My two cents.
Exactly why I choose to use iCloud ; the tiny fee means no messing about to get phots or videos on all my device with no effort needed ; obviously everybody has their own preferences but to me it's real value .
As near as I can tell, most data plans are now limitless.
Thank u so much. It still works in 2019 (ios 13), because i've been trying to record some gmeplay for my fortnite vids but it kept on saying that i ran out of space. This helped A LOT.
Great information! Thanks
how the hell did you got 2 PB storage?
Subham Stark wondered that too
It's probably a work account
I think its because he is sponsored by google. Its obvious.
jbt i thought that too
Siggi Fab it's impossible, Google won't give such thing for sponsorship, it's like heaven