Manage your icloud storage

If you find that your icloud capacity is being pushed to its limits then you can either upgrade your storage or delete any files that you don’t need. For the latter, go to System Preferences>apple Id>icloud and then click on the ‘Manage’ button.

1 Delete files

All of the apps that use icloud will be listed along with how much space they take up. Select certain apps and click on ‘Delete all Files’ to remove all documents and data.

3 Delete old backups

Click on ‘Backups’ and recent backups of all of your IOS devices will be listed. You can save space by removing old ones, just highlight one and click on the ‘–’ icon.

5 Trim your emails

Open your Mail app, right/ctrl+click anywhere in the Mailboxes column and choose ‘Erase Deleted Items’ and ‘Erase Junk Mail’ to clear out old emails.

2 Disable Photo Library

The icloud Photos feature uploads photos and videos to icloud so you can access them from any device. Highlight ‘Photos’ and click ‘Turn Off and Delete’.

4 Ditch drive files

Click on ‘Other Documents’ to see the combined figure of how much space they take up, but you will need to delete them manually from your icloud Drive in Finder.

6 Disable documents

Go to System Preferences>apple Id>icloud, click on ‘Options’ next to icloud Drive and untick any apps that you don’t want to store documents and data.