Thanks, Sieghard, that bit makes sense to me: iTunes Match music is simply streamed from Apple's servers, so it doesn't hog any space on the iPhone itself. So I'm still puzzled about why iCloud Photo Library can't do the same instead of hogging chunks of storage on the phone?
Harry Bell > On 11 Feb 2016, at 15:16, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > iTunes Match doesn't actually store your music in your iCloud storage, it > "matches" the songs you have with music in the iTunes Store and gives you > access to it, but essentially you are using Apple's version of the songs and > not your own. Only songs it can't match are uploaded and I am not even sure > if they count against your iCloud Storage limit, I think they don't. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Harry Bell > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:32 AM > To: Abridged Recipients <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Cloud storage and iPhone storage > > I'm trying to help a friend who has an iPhone 6 16GB: she has a huge Photos > library on her Mac and 99GB of music in iTunes. She has today increased her > iCloud storage plan and on her Mac has turned on iCloud Photo Library and > iTunes Match. But when I checked Apple support discussions online, it seems > that, though Apple stores and streams the photos and music from their iCloud, > the iCloud Photo Library hogs a big chunk of an iPhones internal storage > (about 10% of the size of the original Mac library) whereas iTunes Match > scarcely occupies any of the iPhone's internal space. Is this correct? If so, > why do the two storage services have each such a different impact on an > iPhones internal storage? > Thanks > > Harry Bell > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.