Manage your iCloud storage

Need more than iCloud storage? You tin easily make space or upgrade to iCloud+.

Make more space available in iCloud

If yous run out of iCloud storage, your device won't support to iCloud, new photos and videos won't upload to iCloud Photos, and iCloud Bulldoze, other iCloud apps, and letters won't stay up to date across your devices. And you besides won't exist able to send or receive emails with your iCloud electronic mail address.

You can free up storage in iCloud by deleting content that you're not 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 messages and manage Mail
  • Delete vocalisation memos

Before you delete annihilation, you might want to archive or make copies of the data that you store in iCloud.

Reduce the size of your iCloud Fill-in

Choose which apps to support on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

When yous ostend that you desire to Turn Off & Delete an app, it turns off iCloud Fill-in for that app and removes all of its information from iCloud.

Some apps are always backed upwards and y'all can't turn them off.

Delete backups and turn off iCloud Backup for your device

You lot tin can delete sometime iCloud backups for the device you're currently using, or older devices you may not utilize anymore. iCloud backups are available for 180 days after y'all disable or end using iCloud Fill-in. Backups that are currently beingness used to restore a device tin can't be deleted.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod bear upon

  1. Go to Settings > [your proper name], then tap iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage > Backups.
  3. Tap the name of the device whose backup y'all'd like to delete.
  4. Tap Delete Backup > Turn Off & Delete.

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

Mac

  1. Become to Apple carte du jour  > Arrangement Preferences > Apple tree ID, then click iCloud.
  2. Click Manage and select Backups.
  3. Select 1 of the device backups, then click — to delete. If y'all want to turn off Backup and remove all backups for that device from iCloud, choose Delete when you're asked to confirm.

When you delete a fill-in, it also turns off iCloud Backup for your device. You tin can plow iCloud Backup back on in iCloud settings on your device.

Windows PC

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

When you delete a fill-in, information technology also turns off iCloud Backup for your device. You tin can plow iCloud Fill-in back on in iCloud settings on your device.

Delete photos in iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos uses your iCloud storage to go on all of your photos and videos up to appointment beyond your devices. You tin can brand more space in iCloud when you delete photos and videos that you no longer need from the Photos app on whatsoever of your devices.

Earlier you delete annihilation, brand certain that you dorsum upwardly the photos and videos that you still want. When you apply iCloud Photos and delete a photo or video on 1 device, it'due south 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 touch

  1. Open the Photos app, then tap Photos at the lesser of your screen.
  2. Tap Select, and cull 1 or more photos or videos that you lot want to delete.
  3. Tap Delete, and then tap Delete Photograph.

Mac

  1. Open the Photos app.
  2. Select the photos and videos that you want to delete.
  3. Press the delete primal on your keyboard, control-click, or right-click and choose Delete (#) Photos. Then click Delete to confirm.

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 that you want to delete.
  4. Tap Delete, then tap Delete.

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

You lot can recover photos and videos that you delete from your Recently Deleted album for 30 days. If you want to remove content from Recently Deleted album faster, tap Select, then select the items you lot want to remove. Tap Delete > Delete. If you exceed your iCloud storage limit, your device immediately removes any photos and videos yous delete and they won't exist bachelor for recovery in your Recently Deleted anthology.

If you don't use iCloud Photos

If you don't use iCloud Photos, your Camera Curlicue is part of your iCloud Backup. To check how much storage it's using in iCloud Fill-in, follow these steps.

  1. Go to Settings > [your name], then tap iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage.
  3. Tap Backups.
  4. Tap the name of the device you're using, then await at Photos.

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

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Select the item that you desire to delete.
  3. Tap Delete and and so tap Delete Photograph.

Delete folders or files in iCloud Bulldoze

You tin manage and delete folders or files you store in iCloud Drive from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch on, Mac, or PC. If yous're a participant in someone else's shared folder, it does not count towards your iCloud storage. Learn more than nearly folder sharing in iCloud Drive.

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

iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Mac

  1. Open the Finder and go to the iCloud Drive folder.
  2. Drag an item to the Trash, or move it to a unlike folder on your Mac.
  3. Open Trash, and so right-click the files that y'all want to delete.
  4. Select Delete Immediately. So click Delete to confirm.

Windows

On a PC with Windows 7 or later, you can manage your iCloud Bulldoze files using Windows Explorer. Apply 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 that y'all want to delete.
  6. Click Delete.

iCloud.com

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

Delete texts and attachments in Messages

When yous use Messages in iCloud, all of your text letters and the attachments you ship and receive utilize your iCloud storage. Y'all can brand more space available when you delete texts and attachments—similar photos, videos, and files—that you don't need anymore.

iPhone or iPad

To delete a message or attachment, follow these steps:

  1. In a message conversation, touch and concur the bulletin bubble or attachment that yous desire to delete.
  2. Tap More than.
  3. Tap Delete, then tap Delete Message. If yous want to delete all messages in the thread tap Delete All, in the upper-left 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's proper noun at the top of the screen.
  2. Tap Info.
  3. In the Photos section, tap See All.
  4. Tap Select, tap the images you'd similar to delete.
  5. Tap Delete, and then tap Delete Zipper to confirm.

To delete an entire conversation, follow these steps:

  1. Swipe left over the conversation that you want to delete.
  2. Tap Delete.
  3. Tap Delete again to confirm.

Mac

To delete a message or attachment, follow these steps:

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

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

  1. Open a message chat.
  2. Click the Info button .
  3. Gyre to the Photos section.
  4. Click on an attachment so hold the Command cardinal to select multiple attachments.
  5. Command-click or right-click, then choose Delete.
  6. Click Delete Zipper to ostend.

To delete an unabridged chat, follow these steps:

  1. Control-click a conversation.
  2. Choose Delete Chat.
  3. Click Delete.

Delete messages and manage Postal service

You can free up iCloud space when y'all delete e-mail messages from your iCloud electronic mail account. You tin can also movement e-mail messages from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your Mac or PC, where they no longer count against your iCloud storage.

Use the steps below to delete messages from your account. Call back that messages with large attachments have up more space than simple text emails.

iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is set up to access iCloud email, you lot can delete messages from any mailbox, then empty the Trash to gratuitous up space:

  1. Swipe left across any message to delete it.
  2. Go to your Mailboxes and choose your Trash binder.
  3. To delete messages i at a time, swipe left on each message. To delete everything, tap Edit, tap Select All, and and then tap Delete. Tap Delete All to ostend.

Mac or Windows PC

If you use iCloud Mail with a desktop email app, such as Postal service on your Mac or Microsoft Outlook on your PC, utilize these steps:

  • Mail service on your Mac: Delete the messages that you no longer want, so cull Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items and select your iCloud email account from the card. And so click Erase to ostend.
  • Microsoft Outlook 2010 through Outlook 2022 (Windows): Delete the messages that you no longer want. Outlook will permanently delete your messages the next time you lot shut and restart the app.

iCloud.com

  1. Sign in to iCloud.com.
  2. Select Mail service and choose your Trash binder.
  3. To delete messages one at a time, select the message you lot want to delete, and then select the Trash push button. To delete multiple messages, select the messages you want to delete then select Delete.

Delete voice memos

With Voice Memos in iCloud, your vox recordings are stored in iCloud. You tin easily delete them if you need more than space.

iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

Mac

  1. Select the voice memos you want to delete.
  2. Click Delete .
  3. Open Recently Deleted, than click Delete.
  4. Click Delete Forever.

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