And they're so.fucking.BAD at the cloud. Google, Dropbox, even synology have them dusted for cloud functionality. It amazes me how stingy Apple is with cloud services, particularly considering the giant pile of cash they're sitting on.
It is beyond bizarre. You should what happens when you have three phones on the same account. That's another trap we inadvertently meandered into, and each time they improve their offerings we fall further down the rabbit hole. It tells me that my phone called me, I kid you not. Not the other two phones on our account, but mine.
All this being said - what a pain in the neck. You and kb are spot on. What's the cost to apple for another 16 or 32 GB of storage? Or (GASP) an SD slot? (Blasphemy!) I always end up paying for the bigger storage because 16 is just plain laughable. Especially as their OS continues to bloat out like my waistline.