[mardifoufs]

transcoding sucks on phones IME. Samsung added a built in, pretty barebones transcoder but even then it's very slow (obviously) and doesn't run in the background. you can do it on a computer instead, without any cloud service, but then you are back to having to deal with manually transferring your files and managing them.

[angrais]

You're right - not ideal to manually transfer. Maybe iCloud will offer transcoding as a service next haha.

Many smartphones support recording H.265 encoded video directly and the resulting file size is tiny and quality is amazing. Not sure if it's the default setting (or possible) on iPhones though.

[mastax]

Yes, iPhones support recording to H.265 directly and have defaulted to it for a while.