Free Cloud storage

Ganga

Can anyone help an old silver surfer ,my I Phone memory is nearly full of photos ( 3.5 g of 5g available ) as i do not want to delete the photos is there a free app i can put on my phone to store the photos or is there a free cloud storage site i can send my photos too ,thanks for any help. 

RumRat

What phone do you have...If it's an Android you will probably find they are stored already in Google Photos. Same with Apple except they will be in the Apple equivalent. 
If it's an Android look for the Google Photo's app.

DullGreyGuy

So it is your iPhone that is nearly full or your iCloud?

Assuming its the former then turn on the Optimise Storage on your phone with iCloud on and then it will store only thumbnails of rarely accessed photos on the phone and the full photos will all be in the cloud. As the phone fills up it will move more and more to thumbnail. 

How do you think a free app will be paying for their storage? How long do you think a business will last with no revenue? How will you feel if you go into your free app tomorrow and find all the photos are gone because the company went bust?

Personally, I pay the £1/month for Apple's 50GB storage which mean can still use Camera/Photo and it all just does its thing itself in the background. 

Degoo offer free 20gb of space obviously you'll still have to deal with removing the photos from the Apple ecosystem once you've hit capacity 

Ganga

DullGreyGuy said:

So it is your iPhone that is nearly full or your iCloud?

Assuming its the former then turn on the Optimise Storage on your phone with iCloud on and then it will store only thumbnails of rarely accessed photos on the phone and the full photos will all be in the cloud. As the phone fills up it will move more and more to thumbnail. 

How do you think a free app will be paying for their storage? How long do you think a business will last with no revenue? How will you feel if you go into your free app tomorrow and find all the photos are gone because the company went bust?

Personally, I pay the £1/month for Apple's 50GB storage which mean can still use Camera/Photo and it all just does its thing itself in the background. 

Degoo offer free 20gb of space obviously you'll still have to deal with removing the photos from the Apple ecosystem once you've hit capacity 

I checked and ICloud plus gives 50gb or £0.99 a month so will give that a go ,the reason i asked about free storage is this is a money saving site.

DullGreyGuy

Buying cheap in the name of "money saving" can end up being very expensive. The Consumer Rights board is full of people buying cheap items off websites that turn out to be rubbish being sent from the far east which often they then get stuck with because the cost of returning the goods is disproportional or cheap insurance which then doesn't cover a claim because its been made cheap by cutting covers. 

coffeehound

Dropbox still offer 2 GB free

Bridlington1

I currently use a combination of the following, all of which are free:
Blomp (20GB but can refer friends to get more storage)
Box (10GB, 250MB max per file)
DropBox (2GB)
Filen (10GB)
Google drive (15GB)
Ice drive (10GB)
Internxt (2GB but can increase if you share files, refer friends etc)
Jumpdrive (2GB but can increase by referring friends, 250MB max per file)
MEGA (20GB)
One Drive (5GB)
Pcloud (10GB)
Sync (5GB)
Tera Box (1TB in theory but in practice free version is limited to 20 files of 4GB max so 80GB for free)

Many of these, such as Google Drive, One Drive etc allow you to open as many free accounts as you wish so long as each has a different email address attached to it, e.g. I've currently got over a dozen OneDrive accounts all pretty much full.

There are others that I'm aware of such as Bestfile, UploadNow etc but beware some delete your files after so long without account activity.

km1500

google photos gives you enough free cloud storage for your 5gb needs

cerebus

Or just spend £30 for an external hard drive and back up your photos to there.

Don't understand people who have hundreds of free cloud storage , not only it must be difficult to know what you have stored and where, how many of each type you have and then there is also the issue as has been mentioned that if you forget abut one it can get deleted without your knowledge

Housekeeping all that must be a pain 

DullGreyGuy

And for the sake of £1 a month I'll pay for storage such that my device automatically moves stuff between device and cloud to optimise space on the phone whilst not always having to download everything 

Bridlington1

cerebus said:

Or just spend £30 for an external hard drive and back up your photos to there.

Don't understand people who have hundreds of free cloud storage , not only it must be difficult to know what you have stored and where, how many of each type you have and then there is also the issue as has been mentioned that if you forget abut one it can get deleted without your knowledge

Housekeeping all that must be a pain 

That would mean spending £30 that I don't need to spend though, spending money is something I typically avoid if possible.

I keep a list of what's backed up where, this is stored digitally so I can search for where items are stored using ctrl+F pretty easily, if I need to access anything I just search for what I want in the document, then log in to wherever it is stored.

Most of the things I have backed up are files that I only use very occasionally anyway, e.g. films, sitcoms, old photos etc so I'm not constantly moving things between several OneDrives or anything. The files that I use most often are kept on my laptop and backed up onto the OneDrive attached to my main email account, so I'm essentially only using one free cloud most of the time, which becomes in effect a virtual memory stick. For the rest it's just a case of upload things, make a note of where they are and don't bother with them for months on end and log in occasionally. Quite often they send email reminders a while before they freeze your account or start deleting files though.

Admin wise I don't really have to do very much, though it's like anything, some people prefer to have everything in one place and will pay a premium for it, others are happy to do a bit more admin and spread everything about for the sake of saving a bit of money here and there. I'm very much in the latter but there's benefits and trade offs to both methods.