iOS users, are you using iCloud and Apple Photos or Google Drive and Google Photos? The storage price is almost same so it boils down to experience. I’m new to iOS and the Google Photos experience hasn’t been great so far on iOS

I use OneDrive, which is part of Office 365 subscription that provides Office desktop apps and 1TB OneDrive storage.

I have the default back up turned on on iCloud. That keeps everything at 100% res. But it is substantially easier to share photos on Google Photos. So I have a shared account there (which I share with my wife). So both our photos backup to the same account. (This is at high quality / not at 100% res). Should also mention that the Google Photos is one way — so photos go from both our phones to Google but don’t get auto downloaded from Google to Phone. (You need to browse from Google Photos app). So depending on your situation (just backup or sharing), it may make sense to go with either or both. iCloud backups are seamless

Neat idea of sharing same account! I use Shared Library feature of Google Photos with my wife but it is often hit and miss, and of course, one has to create albums manually after a trip.

@flat-morning-91037 Google recently added a “Add Partner Account” feature — which solves our shared account hack. But they just recently added it. Did you mean that? Or the Shared Album thing?

Yes I meant Partner Sharing, not the shared albums. But unfortunately Partner Sharing doesn't support adding more than one partners.

I use iCloud with Family Sharing - Photos are seamless available across iPhone and Mac. Plus full-res photos and videos being in the cloud while freeing up phone storage, seamlessly, means that I can save on buying an iPhone (or Mac) with larger storage. And I share the storage with family (wife, mother, mother-in-law) - and everybody has everything backed up this way. Apart from Photos, this means that in case of a crash I am back up and running in <60 minutes. If you use and iPhone + Mac, iCloud storage is just a no-brainer for simplicity of sharing everything. Google Photos has better AI search for some cases, but this comes from the obvious other “price” you pay. PS: I recently moved mail to iCloud as well - so one less cost, and now it is plugged in to my very large storage pack!

@cold-school-3088 can you access iCloud easily on non-apple devices? Though I have a macbook and iPhone, I kinda don’t wanna be locked in with Apple for my files and photos

@melodic-jordan-81418 iCloud in the browser is decent and gives access to everything, for the edge cases where I don’t have my iPhone or Mac. When you want to get away from Apple (and I have done this in the past), it is easier to take what you want with you than with Google. Unfortunately, if you want seamless integration, simplicity and ease of use; you have to pick one of these gated castles. For me the least evil (by a distance) is Apple. PS: I am one of those people that does not use Google Maps and watches YouTube channels through ad+script-free RSS feeds.

I use all four dropbox, GD, OD, and iCloud. Helps to keep data from my different lives segregated. Now, coming to experience- OD is good- if you use office applications frequently. Its desktop app works perfectly in OS-X, and windows. GD- is good- if you use lot of Google services- like Colab, sheets etc. Again, desktop App limited to Windows, MAC. For Linux/Ubuntu- third part tools exist but experience not perfect. iCloud-the only good thing is with single id- I can access my icloud data on apple devices. rest similar in terms of experience. Dropbox - offers similar services - smart update etc- but the best part is works on Ubuntu too- officially.