[DavidPastrnak]

You don’t have to pay Apple to manage your files. You can manage them with a traditional file manager if you’d like akin to any other device.

If you want cloud storage, Apple provides free iCloud storage that will keep everything synced across your devices. There is an upper limit to the free tier space, at which you can purchase additional storage or move to a cloud platform of your choice.

[nottorp]

Considering how much of a premium you pay for the iPhones, that upper limit is stingy like hell.

And Apple's marketing ain't great either. They push your photos to iCloud by default, which fills the free space instantly, then when you try to turn that off they give you a vague and threatening message that your photos will be lost.

Marketing by threats will make me to at best give money to the competition.

[DavidPastrnak]

Do you have the text from the message that says all of your photos will be lost? I’ve never seen it.

[nottorp]

Yeah right, I'm hallucinating and so is my wife. More likely, you consider this type of sales copy normal and didn't notice it.

[DavidPastrnak]

I use the Apple one family plan which is 2TB of storage so I’ve likely simply never seen it.