How to clear up your icloud storage. Tap delete backup turn off delete. Photos can eat up a lot of space. Back up photos elsewhere.
Choose which apps to back up on your iphone ipad or ipod touch. Delete documents. Select the device you want to manage the backup for under backup options toggle apps off that you do not want to sync to icloud.
Tap browse at the bottom of the screen. If you have an old iphone or ipad you no longer use it is very possible that the back up for this device is still taking up space in icloud. Tap manage storage backups.
In photos choose photos preferences then click icloud. In macos mojave or earlier choose apple menu system preferences click icloud then click options next to icloud drive. In the locations section select icloud drivec dave johnsonbusiness insider you can delete files and folders to.
So today were going to discuss on how. Delete old icloud backups exclude apps from the backup secure iphone files locally on the pc. If there are some apps you have no need to backup you can try follow the below steps.
To delete an entire folder tap select in the screens top right. The specifics vary from version to version so for example in ios 11 its manage storage backups and in ios 10 its icloud storage manage storage. Tap the name of any iphone ipad or ipod touch thats linked to your account.
Go to settings your name icloud. Under choose data to back up turn off any apps that you dont want to back up. Store in icloud turns on the desktop documents folders and optimize mac storage settings.
Extract and delete old icloud backups extract the data from icloud backupstake this step if you are not sure what is inside your icloud backup or it contains. Choose turn off delete. Keep icloud backups of all your photos videos and text messages and before you know it you will have no room left.
And remember your storage space is offered per apple id not per device. Open the old backup of your device and select which apps you dont need backing up. Go to settings your name icloud icloud storage manage storage.
You can now select the device and delete. Go to settings icloud storage manage storage. How to free up icloud storage space manage your backups.
This means that if you have more than one device saving to icloud your storage space will fill up even quicker. With icloud photo library icloud can automatically back up.