Microsoft has doubled the amount of free cloud storage on OneDrive

Apple released its iOS 8 update earlier this week, but a number of iPhone and iPad owners ran into problems with the amount of free storage required to install the latest operating system. Microsoft is taking advantage of these issues by doubling its free OneDrive storage to 30GB today. “We’ve been listening to the commentary about storage on the new iPhones released today and we wanted to get you more storage right away,” explains OneDrive program manager Douglas Pearce.

Microsoft has been rather generous with free OneDrive storage lately, and that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon. Now Redmond is bumping the previous gratis 15GB up by 100 percent, to 30GB. What’s the catch? There isn’t much of one, really. All Redmond says you have to do (regardless of if you’re a new user or seasoned veteran) is activate auto-upload on your device of choice’s camera roll between now and the end of the month — even on a Windows PC. Seems simple enough. The announcement focuses on the storage woes that’ve been associated with upgrading to iOS 8, and given theiPhone 6 Plus’ fancy video tricks like HD time-lapse capture we’d imagine the off-device storage should come in pretty handy.