Hi, I am hoping one of you won't mind covering the basics on my questions about cloud storage.
First, I currently have an upgraded iCloud storage account, as I ran out of space on the free plan. I was looking at the settings today to see how much space I'm using and see that I have primarily my photos being backed up. I turned on backup for contacts, just in case. I'm curious about all the other apps listed that I could be backing up to iCloud. Many of those apps don't strike me as ones that would have data I'd be worried about losing. Is there a reason I might want to be backing things up? The only other ones I think would be good to maybe turn on is Voice Dream Reader. Kindle and Audible already synch to the amazon cloud. Second, I have the basic Dropbox account, as this seemed like the easiest way to move files from my Windows PC to my phone, particularly into Voice Dream Reader. I currently have it also backing up my photos, thinking it would be easier to pull photos I wanted to my computer from this. (No, I have not figured out putting an iCloud drive on my Windows PC; maybe this would be as easy as Dropbox for photos and I could then save dropbox space by not having camera roll on it.) If you use Drop box, do you also use iCloud? Any best practices on when to use which one? Third and probably most pressing, My husband is on an Android phone. He takes photos and videos of our kids on his phone, that are too large to send via email or text to me. He's very new to a smart phone and does not have cloud storage going, to my knowledge. What direction should we go to allow me to access his videos and such? I'm thinking dropbox would be straightforward, but since I have the upgraded iCloud plan already, is that an option? Maybe I should downgrade my iCloud storage and upgrade the Dropbox so we can share an account. Anyone in a similar situation and could give best practices? I'm the more technical of the two of us, but my husband is sighted and I don't know how to set up his phone, so I need to be very specific up front on the recommendation so I can be sure to have access to these videos. All ideas and input welcome. Robin -- 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. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list 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.
