Upgrade or downgrade your icloud storage.
Storage and icloud usage.
Apple store gift cards aren t accepted as payment for upgrading icloud storage.
Use your apple id or create a new account to start using apple services.
Launch the settings app on your iphone or ipad.
That s not much space to share between a mac an iphone and an ipad.
With optimize storage smaller space saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original full resolution versions are stored in icloud.
Tap settings your name icloud photos.
Apple gives every icloud user 5gb of storage which sounds like a lot until you consider that it s per account not per device.
Just like dropbox google drive or any other cloud storage service you can use your icloud space as an extra drive on which to store files.
Make more space available.
Turn on icloud photos.
If you have mail enabled in icloud then you can delete emails in the mail app to free up icloud storage space.
On your iphone ipad or ipod touch go to settings your name icloud.
Select optimize iphone storage to save space on your device.
Accepted payment methods for icloud storage upgrades include credit cards debit cards and your apple id balance.
Want to check and see what percentage of your icloud storage space you ve used.
If you re using apple s icloud mail your email also counts toward your icloud storage usage.
When you set up icloud you automatically get 5gb of free storage.
How to delete files in icloud.
Sign in to icloud to access your photos videos documents notes contacts and more.
If you don t have enough available funds in your apple id balance to complete your upgrade you ll be charged the remaining amount.
Free up space by deleting emails especially emails with large file attachments.
When you set up icloud you automatically get 5 gb of free storage.
Manage your icloud storage see how much icloud storage you re using.
You can use that storage space to.
About storage on your device and in icloud device storage.
Depending on the size of your backup and the amount of content you keep in icloud you might run out of free space.
You can use that storage space to back up your device and to keep all of your photos videos documents and text messages securely stored and updated everywhere.
Tap the apple id banner at the top.
How to view your icloud usage.
This makes it easy to transfer files to devices over the web which is especially handy when you re away from your mac or other devices.
Get started with icloud photos.
On a mac click icloud drive in the finder sidebar.