Apple’s latest increase in Apple One, from $32.95 per month to $37.95 per month has so annoyed me that I can barely contain myself. I vaguely recall that less than a year ago the price was $29.95 or so. This increase is the end of my relationship with iCloud. I ask you guys, what is the best way to download my whole iCloud storage to a local hard disk? I have a lot of stuff on iCloud, around 1.4Tb. Thanks so much.
I’m sure there’s a number of methods but I believe that you can download everything via their Privacy page:
Sign in with your iCloud credentials and there’s a range of options there. The one you wish to look at is probably the Get a Copy of Your Data which includes a wide range of checkboxes, one of which is iCloud Drive Files and Documents. Which comes with the understandable proviso to expect a long time…
There are some other interesting options for folks, you can even directly transfer your photos and videos to Google Photos for example.
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Thank you so much, Tommy, for answering my query.