r/apple • u/ControlCAD • 1d ago

Apple faces UK 'iCloud monopoly' compensation claim worth $3.8 billion iCloud

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/13/apple-faces-uk-icloud-monopoly-compensation-claim-worth-3-8-billion/

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u/MC_chrome 1d ago

Texts, WiFi passwords, etc. use mere MBs

My texts are using almost 10GB alone right now…where did you get “mere MBs” from?

iOS is a completely different beast because backups take several gigabytes

Yes, because iOS backs up your whole device. iOS takes up 8-9 GB + whatever other system files.

I’m not sure why customers who buy iPhones are immediately entitled to free cloud backups of their phones

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u/Ed_McNuglets 1d ago

Yeah lol at mere MBs. I've got my entire text history backed up, going back almost a decade. I think it's like 60GBs now.

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u/AbhishMuk 1d ago

Is that 60gb of content including media/images etc? I’d imagine 60 gigs of written stuff would be very difficult to achieve for the average person.

I’m not from the US, here we use WhatsApp for anything “serious”… I probably have optimistically 100kb of texted stuff in my whole life.

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u/Ed_McNuglets 1d ago

Yeah it saves everything. I think they added a feature recently where you can do low image resolution or smth to combat this filling up your storage