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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit::A newly-proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service...

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

O.o Can you explain how to do nightly backups of your photos and files to external services? Or are you talking about “other apps are allowed to access these files, and you can set up shortcuts to run apps, and those apps can back up the files” which is extremely different than “Apple lets you back the files up.”

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I’ll speak for Dropbox. Dropbox has a setting for it in the photos app. (I have it off right now)

And for file, as long as you save your files to your drop box directory, they will be mirrored in the cloud.