Find out where your things actually live
Picture exactly where your lists and photographs are kept, and why every device of yours shows the same ones.
You add marmalade to a shopping list on the phone. By the time you reach the hall it is on the tablet too, and nobody sent anything.
There is no cloud. There is a building full of computers on shelves, and your list is on one of them.
Key points
- The cloud is a building full of computers holding a copy of your things
- A device is a window onto your things, not the only place they live
- Running out of space stops new things going up; it never deletes what is there
What to remember
- Nothing traveled between them. Both were reading the same copy.
- A photograph that saves to the cloud survives the phone it was taken on.
- Full means nothing new goes up. It has never meant anything already there comes down.
Try this
Find how much cloud storage you are using. iPhone: Settings, your name, iCloud.
Practice: Find out where your things actually live. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.