I have a 50GB plan that is almost used up. My wife has a Apple One plan 200GB that she shared with our family (including me), but my phone only syncs to my 50GB plan.

If I cancel my 50GB plan, data would still be available for 30 days. Would the data automatically transfer to a new plan, e.g. my wife’s Apple One plan? Or what happens when she cancels her Apple One plan and I start a new one? Would her data transfer over to the one I would buy and share?

Documentation on this is not clear, and I don’t want to lose my data.

  • anderfrank@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The 200GB is shared between everyone on the family sharing plan. Did your wife set up family sharing and invite your account? If not, that needs to be done, then the 200GB will show up on your device. I would get this set up first so you see the extra 200GB, then cancel your 50GB plan. That way you know you are covered by a storage plan and not trying to rush to set something up before 30 days expire.

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    1 year ago

    That is strange that you’re not already getting the benefit of being on the family plan. Try this maybe

    Settings > iCloud account (at the top) > iCloud > Manage account storage > change storage plan

    If you do that it will either give you the option to up your data and it should be “free” for the higher tier iirc or it will say that you’re on the family plan.

    Also I believe the 200gb is shared, so keep that in mind if your wife is already using a lot of data.

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      1 year ago

      For a person that isn’t the head of the family (in Apple’s eyes), they can either be in the family iCloud storage plan, or subscribe to their own plan and not be a part of the family’s storage. If the family wanted 250GB of storage, then the head of the family could add on a 50GB iCloud plan to their Apple One.

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        Right, I can see how someone would not want to used the shared storage. Should give him the option to switch to the shared storage though. It has been a long time since we set this up for ourselves.

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          It’s all automatic in our experience. No need to do any switching. As long as the head of the family has shared storage with the family member, once they cancel their personal plan, the stuff stored on their drive will count against the family’s limit.

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    1 year ago

    As soon as your 50GB plan cancels your iCloud will go to “read-only” and won’t sync until you have enough storage.

    After canceling you can go to settings, family sharing, and then enable your spouse’s iCloud+ plan and your iCloud should start syncing again.

    I would recommend making a backup of everything on an external drive of course. There is never any guarantee that apple won’t lose data but I did this process a month ago and it was completely seamless.

    • BennyInc@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Hearing that you made this step successfully gives me hope. But yeah, I’ll run the iCloud downloader first to have local backups.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like a plan 😁 They are closed for today already, but I’ll try that tomorrow.

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        1 year ago

        Support confirmed that when you stop a plan, the data is still kept in read only for 30 days. When you start a new storage plan in that timeframe, the data will be part of that new plan and not be lost.