My advice: Let the computer that most needs online backup – meaning the device that spends the most time out of the house and holds the most content in need of safekeeping – drive your cloud choice. ►Unfriending Facebook: How to deactivate or permanently delete your Facebook accountīeyond those three, you can also buy cloud storage from the likes of Dropbox, where 2TB runs $119.88/year, while Amazon Prime subscribers get unlimited Amazon Photos storage those third-party services, however, lack their integration with major computing platforms. ►How to get it together: 5 tips to help you organize your iPhone, Android apps and control the chaos Google’s backup service does not come with add-ons to match Apple and Microsoft’s – but it’s also your only recourse for a Gmail inbox that’s grown beyond your ability to keep it under the 15 GB line.

In Windows, OneDrive provides an equally simple backup of your core data folders as well as the useful extra of Microsoft Office’s apps. On Macs, iPhones and iPads, iCloud+ allows for the simplest backup and now offers such additional privacy features as iCloud Private Relay to cloak your browsing and Hide My Email to create random addresses that forward to your actual email. Microsoft’s OneDrive provides 5GB free, followed by a 100GB tier at $23.88 a year and a 1TB offering at $69.99 a year, plus a family plan with 1TB per person for up to six people for $99.99/year.

Google One starts with 15GB free, then offers 100GB for $19.99/year, 200GB for $29.99/year, and 2TB for $99.99/year.Apple’s iCloud+ gives 5 gigabytes of free storage, after which you can buy 50GB for $11.88/year, 200GB for $35.88/year, or 2 terabytes for $119.88/year.Here are your options from Apple, Google and Microsoft, with costs on an annual basis:

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