If my iPhone says my ‘iCloud is full’, should I care?

[albacized]

My wife pays .95 a month for iCloud space. I have about 1000 pics on my phone but nothing I would call important (except for personal/sentimental reasons), and I have something like 5 or less emails in my email in box. I can access everything...if I’m understanding correctly, that only means if something happened to my phone, I would lose whatever is not saved in the iCloud...Is this correct? Because if so, then I don’t care - it’s an older i6 phone if that matters at all

[redfishkiller]

I was thinking about this the other day, after I'm dead, I really don't think anybody is going to sign into my cloud and look at old pictures.

It's not like they can pick up a picture album and thumb through the pages or anything.

 

My great grandkids won't even know what I look like probably

 

[albacized]

1 min ago, redfishkiller said:

I was thinking about this the other day, after I'm dead, I really don't think anybody is going to sign into my cloud and look at old pictures.

It's not like they can pick up a picture album and thumb through the pages or anything.

 

My great grandkids won't even know what I look like probably

 

Ha - very true 

[Dieseldog13]

2 mins ago, redfishkiller said:

My great grandkids won't even know what I look like probably

Red, that may be a good thing.

[foxfai]

If you don't care about anything in the icloud, then don't do anything with it. But one word of advice if you want those items, sit down one day and back it all up to a  physical hard drive at home.

[albacized]

1 min ago, foxfai said:

If you don't care about anything in the icloud, then don't do anything with it. But one word of advice if you want those items, sit down one day and back it all up to a  physical hard drive at home.

I probably will do that in the near future- especially since Ill need a new phone at some point in the near future anyway. 

[sbcbmx112]

I don't pay for icloud storage but instead back it up to my computer once a month or so.

[Billybob]

If you don't pay for icloud, how do you get all your photos and contacts on to your new phone when you get one?

[chumfish]

1 min ago, Billybob said:

If you don't pay for icloud, how do you get all your photos and contacts on to your new phone when you get one?

Set the phone down next to the new one and they talk to each other. 
No kidding. 

[Billybob]

Just now, chumfish said:

Set the phone down next to the new one and they talk to each other. 
No kidding. 

Really?

[chumfish]

Just now, Billybob said:

Really?

Same with AirDrop, data goes from one device to another without internet.

[slicedcornbread]

2 mins ago, chumfish said:

Same with AirDrop, data goes from one device to another without internet.

Unless you live in Commie China. 

[Brother Brian]

10 mins ago, chumfish said:

Set the phone down next to the new one and they talk to each other. 
No kidding. 

 

9 mins ago, Billybob said:

Really?

 

7 mins ago, chumfish said:

Same with AirDrop, data goes from one device to another without internet.

 

 

Yep. Not possible when Steve Jobs was still alive...

[Billybob]

Does that mean both phones would work?

I'm stoopid. 

[STONES]

I received a message to up my storage . I went in to add more storage and my phone died. 

I had to get a new phone and lost 1000's of pictures. I asked if any way i could have the pictures retrieved? 

They told me i would have to hire a private company to find them and that could cost hundreds or thousands!   

I lost so many great picture / concerts / daughters early stuff.