Apple iCloud was introduced in 2011, every
users who with as Apple ID could free receive 5GB of iCould storage space. Of
course, users are also allowed to add more storage space at a rate of $2 per
gigabyte per year, in 10GB, 20GB and even 50GB increments. Some users are not agreeing
to ponying up extra fee for increasing iCloud storage, the only 5GB is not
enough at all. These users will unable to back up iPad, iPhone, iPod to iCloud
at all because there is no enough room to store. However, using iCloud storage
allotment to backup other iOS devices is necessary and helpful.
So, there is no other choice unless paying the
storage? Not necessarily, see the following guide of how to free up iCloud
storage space.
Manage iCloud Storage Space
To begin, open the “Settings” on the iOS
device, and then tap “iCloud”, scroll down and tap “Storage & Backup”. See
the total amount of storage space on the screen that appears, along with the
amount of space that’s still unused. Beneath that is a “Manage Storage” button,
tap it. At the top of the subsequent Manage Storage screen, there will be a
list of all the iOS devices. Examine the list closely, if it claims that we’are
still backing up, say, the old iPhone 3GS that you haven’t used since
before House was cancelled, we will need to delete its backup so that it stops gobbling up
our precious storage space. Tap the unneeded device’s name, and then tap the
red “Delete Backup” button that appears. If we are instead of taping
the name of the device which is in use, we will reach a screen offering the
control over the precise items.
We’ll see the current size of the device’s
backup on that screen, along with an estimate of how large our next backup will
be.
Turn off Camera Roll Backups
Tapping to turn off the Camera Roll will bring
up an intimidating question: “Do you want to turn off Camera Roll backups and
delete the backup data from iCloud?” Here we can choose Turn off & Delete
or Cancel. That first option is scary， it means we will
lose our precious photos or videos.
iCloud backs up iOS devices’ camera Rolls by
default. So we can restore from iCloud and get our photos and videos back when
our iPhone croaks, chokes, or otherwise gives up the ghost. If we choose
tapping “Turn Off & Delete”, we cannot delete those visual memories from
our device.
It isn’t necessarily as risky a move as it
sounds, whenever we connect our iOS device to our Mac, we can do a backup its
saved photos and videos on iPhone. But even if we rarely or never sync our iOS
devices over USB, we probably don’t need iCloud to get a backup for our photos.
Thanks to Photo Stream, which can keep up to 1000 of the photos we snapped over
the past 1 month. Turning off the camera Roll Sync will shave off a significant
chunk of our iOS devices’ backups. It is enough for allowing us to do backup
all of our iOS devices without busting the 5GB cap. However, we can do much
more.
Turn off App
Backups
We can continue allowing some apps to back up
the related data to iCloud if necessary which depends on our needs. If we
frequently create documents in an iOS text editor, or generate any content at
all, we don’t need to regularly do backup, we could use iCloud backup for those
apps. For the apps that have no necessary to back up, we can ignore. Even
mostly occupies a few megabytes per backup, they will add up to a significant
chunk of storage as well. So we should realize that some backup is unnecessary.
Documents
& Data & Emails
Besides the settings for Camera Roll and other
apps on each iOS device you back up.) On the main Manage Storage screen, past
the list of our devices, we can see two other sections: Documents & Data
and Mail.
These two sections of iCloud’s settings can
even refer to data that we saved only on our Mac. Deleting the older, unneeded
documents, data can also free up a little extra storage space on iCloud.
In addition, this section lists synced data
from iCloud-leveraging apps and games. But if, for example, we see that Pages
is taking up many megs (or more), we can tap it to get a listing of each
document saved there, along with the amount of space it’s taking up. If we
notice files we no longer need, clean them out.
If we use iCloud as our primary email account,
we may have our work cut out for us, because all the mail counts against our
iCloud quota. If we don’t regularly archive email offline, clear attachments,
it will gobble up an increasingly large percentage of our small iCloud space.
Looking back to
these tricks, turn off Camera Roll backup, stop the automatically unnecessary
app backup to iCloud, choose the exact types of data to sync with iCloud, and
prune unneeded mail accounts, we could thoroughly free up iCloud
storage without paying, with the simple and practice tips and tricks. Certainly,
if you are not satisfied with the original small storage of iCloud, pay for iCloud storage upgrades on Apple is another
directly and efficient way.
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