Apple’s free iCloud storage has been at 5GB for a long time now, and in 2018, that just doesn’t cut it as a complimentary tier.
Which is why Apple announced today it is upgrading its free iCloud storage to 200GB for teachers and students, as of today. According to Apple’s announcement, “any teacher or student with a Managed Apple ID has access to 200GB of free iCloud storage,” starting today.
With iCloud, students and teachers can safely store their documents, creative projects and more in the cloud, with access to files from any device.
Now if only everyone else could get a free bump to 200GB for iCloud, that would be nice, right? #dreaming
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I don’t see it as an option. I have student Apple Music and shall see it. Great news anyway.
“any teacher or student with a Managed Apple ID has access to 200GB of free iCloud storage,”
yes but how do we tell Apple that we are students or teachers? I
I think “managed” means their new student/teachers apps. “ Managed” doesn’t apply to Uniidays managed students or teachers.
Don’t worry, Apple will give us 50 gb free storage at WWDC. I bet all the money I have ever seen.
I don’t see it either
5GB is long outdated, there’s plenty of other cloud storage options that offer well over 5GB for free, 15GB, 25GB, even seen 50GB of free storage. I think the giant Apple needs to do better cuz you know, we already pay a premium for their smartphones!
This was an education specific keynote so I’m not surprised the 200gb free storage was only made available to students. But I’m willing to bet they’ll also be upgrading free storage to at least 50gb at WWDC. They have to at this point if they want people to use iCloud.