can i sync icloud with onedrive

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So I will freely admit to beeing a little bit of an Apple Fangirl. In that, my mobile devices are all iOS and therefore my photo library is always synced.

However, my parents have iPads, which they both love... and now have Nokia Lumia phones.

They're nice enough, for sure. I find them quite a nifty little deivce. However...

They're now taking photos on these phones, and want a way to automatically sync them with their iCloud storage, so that they know it's all safe...

The problem I have is I don't want to make it complicated, with too many interfaces and passwords; they'll just forget to do something and then when it all goes fubar, will get annoyed.

Is there a really easy way to sync all their Lumia photos with their iCloud library?

(and no, they don't have a computer they can use to do this!)

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ranhalt

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Mar 21, 2016 at 14:05 UTC

There's no iCloud client for Windows Phone, let alone any other non-iOS platform. There definitely will not be a way to upload their photos to OneDrive, then copy OneDrive to iCloud, without a computer facilitating that. Every other cloud platform has apps for Windows Phone, are you sure they need to continue using iCloud for their online storage? iCloud is still more expensive pound for pound compared to the competition, they could get Dropbox or Google Drive, get that app on their phones and iPads, and call it a day. It's another password, but they need to manage their information. Having new technology, and willingly adding complication to their setup by using different platforms, is their choice and they need to accept the responsibility of what will be involved in sharing data between them.

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Mar 22, 2016 at 19:49 UTC

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Previous Android and Lumia 1520 owner here. (currently I have an iPhone)

ranhalt hit the nail on the head with the challenge here: no easy way to sync to iCloud with a non-iOS device.

I'd recommend OneDrive due to 5 GB free and only $1.99/mo to get 50 GB. It can upload directly from the phone to the cloud. Dropbox is good too and works pretty seamlessly with iPhone from my recollection.

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Dropbox has a quite simple and easy interface to interact with, and works seamlessly on Win phones, iOS and Android. It's worth its investment of 9/mo for 1 TB, which is enough space to keep all your memories, as well as getting some additional features that may come handy (remote wipe, password protected links, etc).

On ur pc install OneDrive and icloud app Set a Folder say Photos and sync first all ur photos using OneDrive Once u have ur OneDrive photos now open icloud app and select the same folder to sync As long as ur pc is on all ur photos will be auto synced On android phone use drivesync app to sync photos bet onedrive and ur phone local folder On iPhone iCloud will update automatically I use this setup for my camera as well

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