[ProfessorLayton]

Dropbox has been dropping out of favor for me. Their app now has non-notifications on my system menu (Check out this new feature!), and it drains my laptop's battery when there's lots of syncing going on. I also I didn't like how they handled the Accessibility controls fiasco.

I bought my parents a subscription to iCloud and whats really great about the product is that they don't even know they have it, they just know their iPhones and Macbook aren't nagging them about space anymore (They're not techies).

So far iCloud has been working really smoothly for them and I'm considering the switch.

[i1856511]

How did you provide payment information for iCloud for an account that wasn't your own? Or is your CC the one on file for your parents' account? I want to do the same thing for my own parents, but they have their own CC on file and AFAIK there's no way to supply a different one for a one-off purchase.

[toomuchtodo]

Family controls let you pay for someone else's storage (if they're on your family account). Buying then an iTunes gift card works as well.

I prepay my $36/year in iCloud storage for all of our synced family photos by purchasing a gift card each year and then applying it to my iTunes account (instead of dinging my CC $3/month, which is just annoying).

[i1856511]

Thank you. That's a good idea, and I will look into this. With this method, do you get an alert or email when your period is about to expire?

[toomuchtodo]

Apple sends me an email invoice every month for the storage. If I still have a credit, it says "stored credit" was applied. I put an annual reminder in Google Calendar to re-up the account balance with a gift card. If I forget, I get the American Express push notification that Apple charged my card.

[tspike]

I'm planning on making the same switch. My main use case for Dropbox was having access to my photos from anywhere, but they have systematically hobbled their photo capabilities beginning with the sunsetting of Carousel to the recent redesign of the web Photos page making it impossible to find old photos.

[rdslw]

Consider onedrive.

Cheaper, you can have 5seat office license and family plan.

Disclaimer: no decent linux client but macos is more less okeish.