does the macOS and iOS backup. Click buy and pretty much done. Also have my parents data backed up with family sharing, I don’t have to be family IT support!
If you have other devices… Tim Cook recommends replacing those with Apple devices /sarcasm
Only requirement not met is not having a plan that supports more than 2T.
Yes, Apple owns my life. But happy about it for now, good value.
OneDrive is just too slow and clunky for me on MacOS
Dropbox just kept failing to start a sync from iPhone (likely entirely due to the OS not giving it a chance) but was otherwise very reliable and fast.
Google … I just use for a second copy of my photos and occasionally check if it’s syncing okay. It usually seems to be.
You could say I’m 100% on Apple working decently, but with 3 copies I feel relatively safe.
I wish there was a third party tool to occasionally verify the whole library to ensure photos don’t rot or just disappear.
But yeah, I’m still keeping the lowest-tier iCloud subscription to sync my photos via Apple Photos, which is quite nice to have.
For sensitive stuff I placed a encrypted sparsebundle on my iCloud drive.
one terabyte of HDD space ≈ $12
1. Multiple people and devices use this one account.
2. Said multiple people are not technical - they don’t always know/remember to plug in a drive to their device for backup.
3. The mental load reduction is amazing. The iCloud keychain feature + faceID + multidevices is so convenient, I don’t understand why I ever spent effort in crazy tool and file plumbing schemes. I use the $2.99/month plan, and my time is worth a lot more than that (at least 3000 times more using paycheck…). I’d rather spend time with friends and family doing other things than debugging our collective backup schemes. That’s value.