How To Manage Icloud Storage Without Buying More
To check what s taking up so much space on your icloud account.
How to manage icloud storage without buying more. From your device s settings app navigate to icloud and select manage storage. Under backup options disable the apps you don t need to back up. These sorts of mobile devices can be lost or stolen pretty easily so giving users a free and automatic way to back up all their data in case of an emergency is massively important. How to manage icloud storage. This section shows how you can manage your icloud storage on an ios based device.
It s a bit of a bummer then that apple only gives us five measly gigabytes of free icloud storage space to work with. For ios 10 2 or older. Managing your icloud storage is pretty easy as you can do so from your iphone ipad mac and even from a web browser using the icloud website. Launch the settings app from the springboard of your device. Apple s icloud service is a godsend for iphone and ipad owners.
Tap on delete backu p and then turn off delete. Select settings icloud storage. To reduce the size of your photos backup save your photos and videos to your computer then manually back up your ios device. After you have checked the available storage space in your icloud and fund that there was not enough space you can manage the storage to get more space. And the data will be removed from your icloud storage online and won t be part of future backups.
On your iphone open settings. Go to the settings app on your iphone and tap on your apple id at the top. Assuming you re on the latest version of ios open the settings menu and tap the big panel at the top that has your name on it. Thankfully apple makes this pretty easy to manage. Tap the name of the device you re using then look at photos.
Touch the device s name at the top to view more details. At the top of the screen you ll see a bar chart of what types of files are filling your available icloud space. Tap your name icloud manage storage. Tap icloud storage or manage storage. Click on the backups bar and tap the name of your device.