How To Reduce Your Icloud Storage Usage

You ll see an overview of how much storage each app is taking up.

How to reduce your icloud storage usage. To reduce the size of your photos backup save your photos and videos to your computer then manually back up your ios device. The specifics vary from version to version so for example in ios 11 it s manage storage. When your icloud storage is full you ll no longer be able to send or receive emails. You will then be able to delete all the photos and videos from your icloud. To reduce icloud storage you use on photos you can exclude them from icloud backups and download your photos and videos to your pc.

To reduce the size of your photos backup save your photos and videos to your computer then manually back up your ios device. Tap the name of the device you re using then look at photos. If you use an icloud email address you re reliant on that 5gb of free storage. To reduce the size of your photos backup save your photos and videos to your computer then manually back up your ios device. If you are not sure if icloud backup is enabled on your device open the settings app select icloud then select backup.

Select storage icloud usage. Check if you are using icloud backup. Go to settings your name then tap icloud. Go to settings your name then tap icloud. The steps include the following.

Photos usually use up a lot of icloud storage space. This way your precious memories will always be at hand. Free up space by deleting emails especially emails with large file attachments. If you re using apple s icloud mail your email also counts toward your icloud storage usage. Under the storage section tap on manage storage don t confuse this section with the icloud section.

Be careful when doing this though as you could delete important documents and other files you might want to keep. Tap the name of the device you re using then look at photos. Pay for additional icloud storage. Tapping into any one of them will get you a delete option or you can delete them off your home screen like you d normally delete apps. In the section storage tap manage storage.