Manage your iCloud storage

Demand more iCloud storage? Yous can easily make space or upgrade to iCloud+.

Brand more space bachelor in iCloud

If y'all run out of iCloud storage, your device won't back up to iCloud, new photos and videos won't upload to iCloud Photos, and iCloud Drive, other iCloud apps and messages won't stay upward to date across your devices. And you also won't be able to ship or receive emails with your iCloud electronic mail address.

Y'all can free upwards storage in iCloud by deleting content that you're non using:

  • Reduce the size of your iCloud Backup
  • Delete photos in iCloud Photos
  • Delete folders or files in iCloud Drive
  • Delete texts and attachments in Messages
  • Delete letters and manage Mail
  • Delete voice memos

Earlier y'all delete anything, you may want to archive or make copies of the information that you store in iCloud.

Reduce the size of your iCloud Backup

Cull which apps to back upward on your iPhone, iPad or iPod impact

  1. Go to Settings > [your proper noun] > iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage > Backups.
  3. Tap the name of the device you're using.
  4. Plow off any apps that yous don't want to back upwards.
  5. Choose Turn Off & Delete.

When you confirm that you lot desire to Turn Off & Delete an app, it turns off iCloud Backup for that app and removes all of its data from iCloud.

Some apps are ever backed up and you lot can't plow them off.

Delete backups and turn off iCloud Fill-in for your device

You lot tin can delete sometime iCloud backups for the device you're currently using or older devices y'all may non use any more. iCloud backups are available for 180 days after you disable or stop using iCloud Backup. Backups that are currently being used to restore a device can't be deleted.

iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

  1. Become to Settings > [your name], then tap iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage > Backups.
  3. Tap the proper name of the device whose backup you'd similar to delete.
  4. Tap Delete Backup > Plough Off & Delete.

When you lot delete a backup, it as well turns off iCloud Backup for your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear on. You lot can turn iCloud Backup back on in iCloud settings on your device.

Mac

  1. Go to Apple carte  > Organization Preferences > Apple ID, so click iCloud.
  2. Click Manage and select Backups.
  3. Select one of the device backups, and then click — to delete. If yous want to turn off Fill-in and remove all backups for that device from iCloud, choose Delete when you're asked to ostend.

When yous delete a backup, information technology as well turns off iCloud Fill-in for your device. You can turn iCloud Backup back on in iCloud settings on your device.

Windows PC

  1. Open iCloud for Windows.
  2. Click Storage.
  3. Select Backup from the items listed.
  4. Select one of the device backups, then click Delete. If y'all want to turn off Backup and remove all backups for that device from iCloud, cull Delete when you're asked to confirm.

When yous delete a backup, it too turns off iCloud Backup for your device. Yous can plough iCloud Backup back on in iCloud settings on your device.

Delete photos in iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos uses your iCloud storage to keep all of your photos and videos upwardly to date beyond your devices. Yous tin can brand more space in iCloud when y'all delete photos and videos that y'all no longer demand from the Photos app on any of your devices.

Before you delete anything, make certain y'all back upward the photos and videos y'all yet want. When yous use iCloud Photos and delete a photo or video on one device, it's also deleted on all other devices where you're signed in with the same Apple ID.

Use these steps to delete photos and videos from your iCloud Photos.

iPhone, iPad and iPod affect

  1. Open up the Photos app, so tap Photos at the bottom of your screen.
  2. Tap Select, and choose ane or more photos or videos that you want to delete.
  3. Tap Delete and then tap Delete Photo.

Mac

  1. Open the Photos app.
  2. Select the photos and videos you want to delete.
  3. Press the delete cardinal on your keyboard, control-click or correct-click and choose Delete (no.) Photos. And then click Delete to ostend.

iCloud.com

  1. From your iPhone, iPad or computer, sign in to iCloud.com.
  2. Tap the Photos app.
  3. Select the photos or videos you want to delete.
  4. Tap Delete, so tap Delete.

To select multiple photos or videos, tap Select on iOS or iPadOS, or printing and hold Control on a Mac or Control on a PC while you select the items. To select all, press and agree Control-A on macOS or Control-A on Windows, or tap Select All on iOS or iPadOS.

You tin recover photos and videos that yous delete from your Recently Deleted album for 30 days. If you lot want to remove content from your Recently Deleted album sooner, tap Select, so select the items y'all want to remove. Tap Delete > Delete. If yous exceed your iCloud storage limit, your device immediately removes any photos and videos yous delete and they won't be available for recovery in your Recently Deleted album.

If you lot don't employ iCloud Photos

If you lot don't utilise iCloud Photos, your Photographic camera Coil is part of your iCloud Fill-in.  To bank check how much storage it'southward using in iCloud Backup, follow these steps.

  1. Get to Settings > [your name], then tap iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage.
  3. Tap Backups.
  4. Tap the proper name of the device y'all're using, then wait at Photos.

To reduce the size of your Photos fill-in, save your photos and videos to your figurer, then manually back up your iOS device. If you want to keep your photos and videos on your iOS device, you can turn off Photos in Fill-in or upgrade to iCloud+ for more storage. If there are any photos that you don't desire to proceed, you can delete them.

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Select the item that you want to delete.
  3. Tap Delete so tap Delete Photo.

Delete folders or files in iCloud Drive

Yous tin manage and delete folders or files you shop in iCloud Drive from your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear on, Mac or PC. If you're a participant in someone else's shared folder, it does non count towards your iCloud storage. Find out more than well-nigh folder sharing in iCloud Drive.

With iOS 11 or later, files that you delete from iCloud Drive remain in Recently Deleted for 30 days before they're removed from your device.

iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon

Mac

  1. Open the Finder and go to the iCloud Bulldoze folder.
  2. Drag an item to Bin or move it to a different folder on your Mac.
  3. Open Bin, then right-click the files y'all desire to delete.
  4. Select Delete Immediately. Then click Delete to confirm.

Windows

On a PC with Windows 7 or later on, you can manage your iCloud Drive files using Windows Explorer. Employ these steps to add an iCloud Drive folder to Windows Explorer:

  1. Download and install iCloud for Windows.
  2. Sign in with your Apple ID.
  3. Turn on iCloud Bulldoze.
  4. Go to the iCloud Drive folder.
  5. Select the folders or files you want to delete.
  6. Click Delete.

iCloud.com

  1. From your iPad or figurer, sign in to iCloud.com.
  2. Tap the iCloud Drive app.
  3. Select the files that you want to delete, so tap Delete.
  4. Open the iCloud Bulldoze folder and tap Recently Deleted.
  5. Select the folders or files you desire to delete.
  6. Tap Delete.

Delete texts and attachments in Letters

When you use Messages in iCloud, all of your text messages and the attachments you send and receive utilise your iCloud storage. You can brand more space available when you delete texts and attachments – such as photos, videos and files – that you don't demand whatsoever more.

iPhone or iPad

To delete a bulletin or attachment, follow these steps:

  1. In a bulletin conversation, bear on and concur the message bubble or attachment that y'all want to delete.
  2. Tap More.
  3. Tap Delete, then tap Delete Message. If you desire to delete all letters in the thread, tap Delete All in the summit left-manus corner. Then tap Delete Conversation.

To delete multiple attachments from a contact or conversation, follow these steps:

  1. In a message conversation, tap the contact'due south proper name at the tiptop of the screen.
  2. Tap Info.
  3. In the Photos section, tap See All.
  4. Tap Select, tap the images yous'd like to delete.
  5. Tap Delete, then tap Delete Zipper to confirm.

To delete an entire conversation, follow these steps:

  1. Swipe left over the conversation y'all want to delete.
  2. Tap Delete.
  3. Tap Delete again to confirm.

Mac

To delete a message or zipper, follow these steps:

  1. Open a message conversation.
  2. Command-click the blank area of a message chimera that you want to delete.
  3. Choose Delete.
  4. Click Delete.

To delete multiple attachments from a contact or chat, follow these steps:

  1. Open a message chat.
  2. Click the Info push .
  3. Scroll to the Photos section.
  4. Click on an attachment and and so hold the Command key to select multiple attachments.
  5. Command-click or right-click, then choose Delete.
  6. Click Delete Zipper to confirm.

To delete an entire chat, follow these steps:

  1. Control-click a chat.
  2. Cull Delete Conversation.
  3. Click Delete.

Delete messages and manage Mail

You can free upward iCloud infinite when you delete email messages from your iCloud e-mail account. You can too movement electronic mail messages from your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear on to your Mac or PC, where they no longer count towards your iCloud storage.

Employ the steps beneath to delete messages from your business relationship. Remember that messages with large attachments take up more space than simple text emails.

iPhone, iPad or iPod affect

If your iPhone, iPad or iPod affect is set upward to access iCloud email, y'all tin can delete messages from any mailbox, then empty the Bin to costless up space:

  1. Swipe left beyond any message to delete information technology.
  2. Go to your Mailboxes and choose your Bin folder.
  3. To delete messages i at a fourth dimension, swipe left on each message. To delete everything, tap Edit, tap Select All and and so tap Delete. Tap Delete All to ostend.

Mac or Windows PC

If y'all utilise iCloud Postal service with a desktop email app, such as Post on your Mac or Microsoft Outlook on your PC, utilize these steps:

  • Mail service on your Mac: Delete the letters that y'all no longer want, then cull Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items and select your iCloud email account from the carte. Then click Erase to confirm.
  • Microsoft Outlook 2010 to Outlook 2016 (Windows): Delete the letters that you no longer want. Outlook volition permanently delete your messages the adjacent fourth dimension you close and restart the app.

iCloud.com

  1. Sign in to iCloud.com.
  2. Select Mail and choose your Bin folder.
  3. To delete letters one at a time, select the message you want to delete, then select the Delete button. To delete multiple messages, select the messages yous want to delete and so select Delete.

Delete voice memos

With Vocalisation Memos in iCloud, your voice recordings are stored in iCloud. You can easily delete them if you need more than space.

iPhone, iPad or iPod impact

  1. Tap Delete , and then open Recently Deleted.
  2. Tap Edit.
  3. Tap Delete All or select vocalism memos and then tap Delete.

Mac

  1. Select the voice memos you desire to delete.
  2. Click Delete .
  3. Open up Recently Deleted and then click Delete.
  4. Click Delete Forever.

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