Hosting Plans

A Hosting Plan keeps your films on the web. Recording, exporting, watching, following and sharing nearby are free without one.

The plans

A plan is sized by how many hours of video you have on the web at once. Every film you have up counts.

• 1 hour: $0.99 a month, or $9.99 a year.
• 5 hours: $2.99 a month, or $29.99 a year.
• 20 hours: $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year.

These are U.S. prices. The card shows Apple's price in your currency. A plan also removes the end card from your exports and the mark from your prints.

Choosing one

Tap Upload on a film with no plan and Hosting Plans comes up. You can also go to Settings, then Manage subscription, then Choose a plan or Change plan.

The film's length is checked against your plan before anything is sent, and the server checks again. Nothing goes up that does not fit.

Renewal and billing

Apple bills you. Plans renew automatically each month or year until you cancel in the iOS Settings app, under Subscriptions. Cancel or change billing in Settings opens Apple's page. Restore purchases brings a plan back after a reinstall, and moves it to this device's key if your key has changed, as it does after you erase. Your films stay on the old key.

Over plan limit

If a film does not fit, tap Upgrade for a bigger plan, or Replace to pick older films to take down. A smaller plan that cannot hold what you have up stays off until you make room. Taking a film down never touches your phone.

When a plan ends

A plan ends when it lapses, or when you move to a smaller one. If you have more on the web than the plan holds:

• Your films stay up for 30 days, and home shows the date.
• After that the oldest films expire, one at a time, until the rest fit.
• An expired film is off the web, and its link stops working. It is not deleted: its pieces are kept.
• A plan that holds your films brings them back at the same links, oldest first.
• A film whose project is no longer on your phone is your last copy. It comes off the web in its turn, its file is kept, and a plan with room brings it back.

The app's card says your films will be deleted from the web on that date. What happens on that date is that they expire. Camcorder does not delete expired films automatically. Deleting one is a decision a person makes, film by film.

Your clips stay on your phone either way.