AppleInsider Staff
Following the unveiling of official pricing tiers for its iCloud storage plans, Apple on Wednesday took the new plans live, offering users up to one terabyte of space for $20 per month.
The new tiers, outlined in a post to Apple's website on Tuesday, range from 5GB to 1TB of online storage space and can be purchased now via the iCloud settings menu on any connected iOS device.
As previously reported, Apple is carrying over the free 5GB tier that will join options 20GB for 99 cents per month, 200GB for $3.99 per month, 500GB for $9.99 per month and 1TB for $19.99 per month.
Apple first announced the new iCloud storage options at this year's WWDC in June, but did not solidify pricing until yesterday.
The new iCloud tiers go hand-in-hand with Apple's upcoming iCloud Drive cross-platform file storage and sharing service that will go live with the launch of OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Like competing systems from Dropbox and Google, iCloud Drive allows users to store and sync data across Mac, iOS and Windows devices, with added support for advanced features like document editing and tagging.
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16 Comments
Just upgraded my storage to 20 GB / month, sweet!
We get 1TB for 9.99 a month from Dropbox Pro and it has always been rock solid at the office... Not something I can say about my apple cloud services in the past. Wait and see on this one.
I am already on that $10.99/Year for 20GB. I wished that thad one more tier at 100GB to 250GB. I wonder if I can create a folder on the iCloud Drive and use it as Time Capsule drive - Now, that would make it worthwhile.
Wait a minute... I thought this was going to be online backup for the desktop. What?! iOS only?
Is iCloud Drive the online backup option for desktops?
Saved me $4.01 and added an additional 5GB. Nice.