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I have Amazon Prime for our house which means I get their Prime Photos option included. When that limit is breached I’d probably end up using iCloud for more file storage (instead of DropBox) since I’ll be paying for it. I’m getting pretty close to that limit which means my only option is to move to 1TB at $9.99/month. Storage is pretty cheap – 200GB is $2.99/month. If I take time to train/teach/curate faces on my iMac they don’t show up on my laptop or iPhone. Every machine/device that is connected has to process faces independently – or so it seems. There is also no way to mark an album or set of items as more important so they’re always cached.įaces also do not sync across iCloud. While this seems magical it also means it uses WiFi or cellular data when you want to view a photo or video that isn’t cached on the device yet. Spending an evening reminiscing with friends going through images and videos from years back can easily chew through gigabytes of cellular data. ICloud Photos can also intelligently cache items on your devices with less storage than your library size. There is no way to be explicit about when sync happens. I have to frequently shut off WiFi on my phone so our connection is usable. During the summer we’re at our camper/cottage and have a very slow 2Mbps down/1Mbps up connection. The downside is every time I take an HD video or a ton of photos it swamps my WiFi connection. iCloud sync is built into the Photos Mac app and into iOS. I can take pictures on my phone and they’re automatically backed up into iCloud when I’m back onto a WiFi network. My iMac at home downloads all originals so I have a copy of every photo and video on disk without an Internet connection.

Other shitty digital cameras over the years.Canon Digital Rebel (including CRW RAW).Using macOS & iOS primarily. Support for Android would be nice but isn’t 100% required.Here’s what I came up with after about two weeks of futzing. I wanted to test each solution with a good chunk of my photo library uploaded which made this a time-consuming experience. My home Internet connection has a 5Mb/s upload speed which feels pathetically slow. I decided to try out both Amazon Prime Photos and Google Photos. I’ve been using iCloud Photos for over a year and am not totally happy with the solution. I recently went down the rabbit hole of figuring out if I am using the right solution for offsite storage of my photo library.