All of these are 'it depends'. No one can accurately decide which photos
to delete, for instance, except that person. I don't actually think
they're using a lot...
It's videos that will kill storage unless they're taking 100s of photos.
You can set phones to take lower quality video and photos (they will
probably resist this) which will reduce the endless spiral (which is
only going to get worse lol). Newer phones take high quality video which
uses a lot of GBs.
You might say 'right, we're archiving all photos to make room for more'
if you have a computer they can all use to get access to the archive.
That would mean creating another Photo library to be the iCloud one and
keeping the old one just on the computer.
At some point they will want to differentiate their photos, surely, so
maybe you should think about an age at which they do that and migrate
them one by one to their own iCloud set-up.
But it's a lot of work (I did a massive purge of my iPhoto library a few
years ago, it took forever).
I'd sit them down and say 'ok this isn't infinite, how are we going to
manage it?' They might say pay more and be done with it, and you can
'charge' them a chore or whatever is appropriate.
On 21 Dec 2022, at 21:25, mac98aop wrote:
Evening all
I hope someone can help.
My family has 6 users sharing 200GB of iCloud storage. We've 65GB left
but
I'm pretty sure quite a big chunk of some of my children's data is
junk
that can probably get deleted to free up space before we need to
upgrade
storage.
Does anybody have any tips for how best to do some housekeeping
please?
On their devices, Photos is huge, WhatsApp Messenger sizable (I've 4
teenagers!)
- Is there a more elegant way of reducing those than simply deleting
photo
by photo?!
- Can one view photos/videos by file size and quickly remove any large
and
no longer needed files?
- Backups seem quite hefty, but presumably best left alone or is it
accruing historic data?
- Also for one or two their iCloud Drive lists GarageBand.app and
iMovie.app as taking up several GBs. That indicates the App is stored
there
rather than just associated files. Why is that and can I remove/move?
I'd be really grateful for any tips. Or even pay someone experienced
to
screenshare and help?!
Or is there perhaps a Mac App that iOS/iPadOS devices can be plugged
in to
for a spring clean?
Anyway, happy Christmas everyone and hope someone can help or point me
in
the right direction. I really don't mind upgrading storage if it's
needed
but seems a shame to pay to store any rubbish (teenagers take a LOT of
screenshots and 'save to cameraroll' a LOT of duds and duplicates!)
Thanks
Adam
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