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Question about iCloud storage (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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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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[–] TORFdot0 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As soon as your 50GB plan cancels your iCloud will go to “read-only” and won’t sync until you have enough storage.

After canceling you can go to settings, family sharing, and then enable your spouse’s iCloud+ plan and your iCloud should start syncing again.

I would recommend making a backup of everything on an external drive of course. There is never any guarantee that apple won’t lose data but I did this process a month ago and it was completely seamless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hearing that you made this step successfully gives me hope. But yeah, I’ll run the iCloud downloader first to have local backups.