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.
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.
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.
Right, I can see how someone would not want to used the shared storage. Should give him the option to switch to the shared storage though. It has been a long time since we set this up for ourselves.
It’s all automatic in our experience. No need to do any switching. As long as the head of the family has shared storage with the family member, once they cancel their personal plan, the stuff stored on their drive will count against the family’s limit.