I used to have 2tb icloud …but after the pricejump I have degraded to the free 5gb tier. Greed should not pay.
Now i daily do airdrop between my devices.
I did not pay for large storage on both iphone and ipad and be forced to pay way too much for having my pictures stored in icloud also.
I hope some day that backup between devices will not force to also pay for expensive icloud storage.
Some day? iTunes backup worked long before Apple ever introduced iCloud. It is moving away from being called "iTunes", but the backup still works.
[ This reminds me of the TV commercial about the "hot news secret special on getting free TV"... just hook this device to the back of your TV and it is "free" with no cable bill. " 'New' government mandated option" ... Errr you broadcast TV that existed all through the 60's ,70's, 80's before cable became dominate? ]
Some type of daily scheduled automatic airdrop between devices would be nice.
Only one single copy to a another mobile device isn't really much of a backup. It is better than nothing, but two big pain points here.
1. the max storage capacity is relatively limited if trying to keep very long term archives.
2. Apple's $/TB price on mobile devices is highly inflated. Complaining about Apple's on device prices versus iCloud is a bit odd. Both are high for backup.
A good backup consists of more than one copy. ( iCloud probably redundantly stores the data. A 'offline' backup of what is being actively used. ). Should be versioned also. a rapid sync betweeen two devices would delete on both.
[ iCloud has issues here also as high quality backup. ]
'Daily scheduled' can burn lots of mobile data if not close together. Both happened to be on same home Wi-Fi has substantially lower security risks. Airdrop is a security hole which is in part why it requires direct user interaction/approvals.