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Background refresh is a seatbelt
Off means we cannot even ask iOS for a window.
You can turn it off.
You should know what you turned off.
The widget will tell you we are stale.
Background refresh is a seatbelt sits inside a simple product: original-quality iPhone backup, quiet on Wi‑Fi, a restore that brings the dates back. Not a feed. Not a compressed cousin.
You set it up once in the iPhone app. New photos leave when the phone is calm. If the handset dies, you sign in on the next one. That is the whole job.
Two sizes. Same engine. $12 a year for 100 GB, $20 a year for 1 TB. Coupons, if you have one, are entered in the app at checkout.
Paid in the iPhone app. $12 / year for 100 GB, or $20 / year for 1 TB.