confused with icloud backup , photo library , icloud.com

[etaf]

Hi,

I'm pretty confused now with the services for icloud and photo backup and sync
The sort of confusion is around the 1000 limit and the 30days rules
and now the newish photolibrary service
also storage allocation

icloud backup
This used to have camera roll and a backup of everything on the iphone/ipad
free 5GB storage and you could pay to increase

NOW with icloud drive and photo library
I'm very confused
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

Start with storage
icloud backup free 5GB - for icloud and icloud.com
if you pay for extra space does that apply to both icloud backup and icloud.com

I advise people on backups and syncing
in the past on a PC
I would load Windows control panel
make sure photo sharing is on

then the photo would appear on the PC via control panel
and also now on icloud.com

Now I read about optimising for devices and full resolution images are stored on icloud.com BUT not as part of the icloud backup
so do you need separate storage paid for ?

i dont have a device myself to play with - so a little difficult and lots of people are asking me these questions, so i would like to fully understand

icloud
icloud drive
photo library
syncing between all devices, including windows PCs
backup

 

[pendlewitch]

Hi, I would advise that you look at this first and then research some of the other issues https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519?locale=en_US

 

[etaf]

Thanks - thats sort of where my confusion started