Yet again you have clarified something which had seemed endlessly obscure!! Thanks, Sieghard! Harry
> On 11 Feb 2016, at 15:36, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > You can download your music library and I assume Apple assumes you want > off-line access to your photos which is why they are downloaded. You could > always use Dropbox or OneDrive, you can set up both of hese services to > automatically upload your camera roll and here all the photos are strictly > kept in the cloud for iOS devices unless you specifically mark them to be > downloaded. If you use a PC (and I assume also a Mac) then the pictures will > be downloaded to a folder called "Camera Roll". > In some ways Dropbox and maybe also OneDrive do this better than Apple does, > I think Apple has always had a bit of a fight with cloud storage although it > is better now than it used to be. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Harry Bell > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:24 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Cloud storage and iPhone storage > > 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. > > -- > 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. 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