I have a 50GB plan that is almost used up. My wife has a Apple One plan 200GB that she shared with our family (including me), but my phone only syncs to my 50GB plan.

If I cancel my 50GB plan, data would still be available for 30 days. Would the data automatically transfer to a new plan, e.g. my wife’s Apple One plan? Or what happens when she cancels her Apple One plan and I start a new one? Would her data transfer over to the one I would buy and share?

Documentation on this is not clear, and I don’t want to lose my data.

  • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is strange that you’re not already getting the benefit of being on the family plan. Try this maybe

    Settings > iCloud account (at the top) > iCloud > Manage account storage > change storage plan

    If you do that it will either give you the option to up your data and it should be “free” for the higher tier iirc or it will say that you’re on the family plan.

    Also I believe the 200gb is shared, so keep that in mind if your wife is already using a lot of data.

    • turbodrooler@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For a person that isn’t the head of the family (in Apple’s eyes), they can either be in the family iCloud storage plan, or subscribe to their own plan and not be a part of the family’s storage. If the family wanted 250GB of storage, then the head of the family could add on a 50GB iCloud plan to their Apple One.