Google Photos, on the other hand, allows you to back up unlimited numbers of photos at no extra cost.
While cool on the surface - iCloud allows you to back up and access photos you take on your iPhone across multiple devices - the service’s Photo Library facet ends up eating a ton of your iCloud storage space. You can pay a small fee to increase the amount of storage available to you - $1 a month nets you 50GB of additional space - but there’s a much better alternative for those willing to part ways with Apple’s apt-titled offering. The service provides a mere 5GB of free space, which doesn’t go far if you intend to back up all of your data, photos, documents, and mail to the cloud. The storage capacity available in iCloud is underwhelming to say the least.
