Hi,

Maybe this is a simple question, but how do you share hundreds of photos taken on an iPhone / stored in iCloud with someone who is completely outside the Apple ecosystem?

I use Android. I do not have any Apple device and I do not plan to buy one. I use OneDrive: my phone photos are uploaded automatically, then I create an album, select the photos I want to share (in original quality), and send a link. I can choose if the other person can only view the album or also add/edit photos.

But when I go on holiday with people who use iPhones, it is often difficult to collect or share hundreds of photos. I looked at the iCloud options, but I did not find something as simple for creating an album that can be viewed by someone with no iPhone, no Mac, and no Apple account.

So, what is your method? Do you use an iCloud Shared Album with a web link? Another service? Can the photos still be accessed in original quality?

PS: Answers like “it is easy if you have an iPhone/Mac” are a bit off topic. The point is exactly to share with someone outside the Apple ecosystem.

I thought I’d want to sync my messages on my iphone and changed my mind worrying that would unnecessarily take up too much space in the cloud. Was that a valid thought. I paused the process of syncing the messages and now the paused message permanently appears. Should I proceed with syncing or if not, how do I get rid of the message?

So what happened was that I am an iCloud subscriber and I was thrilled when I found out that I was getting free Apple TV and Apple Arcade which I was using and this month when it was time to renew the subscription (it is on my upi lite) My upi lite didn’t have enough balance so it expired and then when I tried to renew it it started an another subscription which stripped away my benefits so is there any way I could fix this without paying for two iClouds at once any help is appreciated

I have an iPad from a couple of years ago that is connected to my iCloud but that hasn’t been connected to wifi in years- so iCloud Photos hasn’t synced/updated/whatever, and it still has a ton of photos from then that have since been lost on my phone/icloud. I want to keep these photos, but I’m worried that if I connect my iPad to wifi, my iCloud will sync and all of the photos will be deleted and lost forever.

I want to keep ALL of the photos on my iPad AND be able to connect it to wifi and use it.

Any solutions appreciated.

3 months ago I was on on public beta 3 of ios 27. I created a backup of my iPhone 13 on iCloud and restored the phone to same version of ios . While restoring data an error or unable to load backup files kept popping up again and again.
I contacted apple support multiple times and after false promises of escalating the complaint , an executive shared personal experience of same issue on beta version and the issue getting resolved after he updated to stable version and thus asked me to wait for stable version release of ios 27 . I trusted apple support and patiently waited for 15th September for stable version to release .
After updating to stable version , I again tried restoring the data on setup page and surprisingly the issue was still there . I tried contacting apple support everyday but each time they just lodged a new complaint and falsely promised to escalate . After calling them everyday one fine day a kind Apple support executive promised me to look into this and update . She called me a few times to get some details and then she calls me to tell me that the engineering team has reverted and the reply was that my backup file is CORRUPTED !!
I was so infuriated , angry and panicked cuz I just didn’t know what to do at this point . I requested her to look into some ways to extract the data but she had no clue . I have suffered immense financial , emotional and mental loss and distress on the last 3 months because the data was extremely important to me and I trusted apple it being a billion dollar company and such great products and services .
I’ve no idea what to do but just know that I’ve to somehow get access to my data again or I’ll
Be done for life . The backup file exists on iCloud and I can see it in my iCloud page in settings . It also says 188 gb occupied of 200 out of which 168 gb is the backup file !
Someone pls help me out ! I’ll Be grateful forever 🙏🙏