」工欲善其事,必先利其器。「—孔子《論語.錄靈公》
首頁 > 軟體教學 > 如何釋放 iCloud 儲存空間

如何釋放 iCloud 儲存空間

發佈於2024-08-18
瀏覽:413

Quick Links

  • Identify the Biggest Storage Hogs
  • Delete Outdated iPhone and iPad Backups
  • Back Up Your Photos to a Different Cloud Service
  • Delete App Documents and Data From iCloud
  • Triage Your iCloud Mail Inbox
  • Delete Old Chats and Messages Attachments
  • Consider Upgrading Your iCloud Storage
Apple offers 5GB of free iCloud space to everyone, but you'll run up against that storage limit sooner than you'd think. If you have multiple devices, you'll run out even faster. That free 5GB is per Apple ID, not per device, so it's a good idea to free up wasted space before paying for more storage. Here's how to do it.

Identify the Biggest Storage Hogs

Before you start removing iCloud files, you can find out what's taking up the most space to determine what to delete. Open the Settings (iOS/iPadOS) or System Settings app (Mac), select your Apple ID at the top, and choose "iCloud."

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

A handy bar chart at the top provides a visual breakdown of what's filling up your iCloud. Here, you can also check how much iCloud storage space you have left in your account.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

If you're on a Mac, hover over sections like "Documents," "Photos and Videos," "Backups," "Messages," "Mail," and "Family" to reveal per-category storage usage.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

To manage iCloud storage access for the biggest storage hogs like iCloud Drive, Messages, Photos, Mail, or iCloud Backup and turn syncing on or off, select the feature under "Apps Using iCloud" in General > Storage in the Settings (iOS/iPadOS) or System Settings app (Mac)

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

iOS intelligence can recommend actions you can take when low on iCloud storage. Select "Recommended for You" in the iCloud settings and choose one of the listed options.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Depending on how you use your iCloud storage, recommendations may include slimming down the Photos library by identifying duplicate images, deleting large files and old backups, among other things.

Delete Outdated iPhone and iPad Backups

To see your iCloud backups, open the iCloud settings on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and choose "Manage Account Storage" or "Manage Storage" (iOS/iPadOS) or "Manage" next to "Account Storage" (macOS), then choose "Backups" and select a device for details.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

iCloud only keeps the latest backup for each of your devices. To delete a backup, select the device and choose "Delete Backup" or "Turn Off and Delete from iCloud" on iOS and iPadOS.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

On macOS, select a listed backup and click "-" in the lower-left corner.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

This will permanently remove the entire backup archive from your iCloud account and switch off the iCloud Backup feature for that device.

When you disable the iCloud Backup option, your iPhone will stop automatically backing up to iCloud when plugged in, locked, and connected to Wi-Fi, but its backup will stay in iCloud.

With iCloud Backup disabled, be sure to back up your iPhone manually via the Finder on macOS or with iTunes on Windows by plugging it into a computer. That way, multi-gigabyte device backups will take up storage space on your Mac or PC rather than your space-starved iCloud account.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Backing up to a computer will ensure you can quickly restore your iPhone or iPad using a Mac and get everything back to how it was should you ever lose it or need to reset it. If you're a power user, you may want to use a specialized app like iMazing to selectively back up and restore files from iPhones and iPads, create local backup snapshots, and transfer media.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Exclude Apps From Your iPhone Backups

If you prefer to continue backing up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud, you may want to exclude specific apps from future backups. Choose "Backups" from the "Manage Account Storage" screen in the iCloud settings, select the backup for the device you're using, and disable the apps whose data you want excluded from future backups.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

You can safely disable iCloud for apps that sync data online anyway, like Pocket or Facebook.

Back Up Your Photos to a Different Cloud Service

Photos can eat up a lot of space. With iCloud Photos enabled, your iPhone will back up full-resolution versions of any images and videos you take to your iCloud account. This can be convenient, but it also means your iCloud storage can quickly fill up.

To free up space lost to photos and videos, disable Photos sync by selecting "Photos" from the iCloud settings screen and switching off "Sync this iPhone."

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

With iCloud Photos disabled, you're wholeheartedly recommended to try Google Photos, Dropbox, or Flickr, which can automatically back up your photos to a separate pool of cloud storage that's often bigger than iCloud. That way, you'll have a backup copy of your photos and videos stored online and retain your precious iCloud storage for other functions.

Delete App Documents and Data From iCloud

Some apps store large amounts of data in iCloud, such as documents, settings, and saved games. These bits of data sync between all your devices and count toward your iCloud storage. You can delete these files if you don't need them.

Select any app you don't care about on iCloud's "Manage Storage" screen and choose "Delete Data from iCloud" or "Delete from iCloud."

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

For some apps, you can delete specific files. For instance, I have some dormant projects in the Pixelmator image editor that I no longer need. I selected Pixelmator from iCloud's "Manage Storage" screen, swiped a file to the left, and chose "Delete" to clear the file from iCloud.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Be careful when doing this, though, as you could delete essential documents and files you might want to keep.

Triage Your iCloud Mail Inbox

If you're using Apple's iCloud Mail, your emails count toward your iCloud storage quota. You can free up space by deleting old iCloud emails, especially those with large file attachments.

Select your iCloud Mail inbox in the Mail app on iOS and touch the "Edit" button, then select messages to delete and hit the "Trash" option.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

To view only emails with attachments, select your inbox and touch a button in the bottom-left corner which resembles a generic list, then hit "Filtered By" at the bottom center, turn on "Only Mail with Attachments," select everything under "Include" and "Addressed," and hit "Done."

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Otherwise, you can visit the iCloud Mail website and delete unwanted emails from within the web interface on any device.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

When you delete emails, remember to empty the trash afterward to have them removed permanently and free up storage space.

You don't need to delete your emails from Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo as those services don't store inboxes in iCloud but rather within their own cloud space.

Delete Old Chats and Messages Attachments

If you've set up the Messages in iCloud feature to sync your conversations across devices, storage usage can easily creep up to a couple of gigabytes. You can save some space by removing only message attachments clogging up your iCloud storage, especially photos and videos.

Open the chat thread in the Messages app, touch the recipient name at the top, and hit "See All" next to attachment types like "Photos," "Videos," or "Links" to view the items. Touch "Select" in the top-right corner, mark the items you'd like to trash, and hit "Delete."

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

The selected attachments will be removed from all your Apple devices.

You can also delete conversation threads with no attachments. But those are typically only a few kilobytes each, and you may want to keep them anyway.

Consider Upgrading Your iCloud Storage

You can't free up iCloud space without deleting stuff, so if none of the above are options you're willing to consider, you'll need to buy more iCloud storage. In that case, you'll be able to share your purchased storage with up to five other people via the Family Sharing feature.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

Hit "Buy More Storage" or "Change Storage Plan" on the "Manage Account Storage" screen in the iCloud settings, then choose one of the paid iCloud storage plans:

  • 50GB for $0.99/month
  • 200GB for $2.99/month
  • 2TB for $9.99/month
  • 6TB for $29.99/month
  • 12TB for $59.99/month

Paid iCloud storage includes perks such as iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, and HomeKit Secure Video support.

iCloud storage is also included in the Apple One bundle, which combines multiple services at a discounted price. The $20/month tier includes 50GB, the $26/month one offers 200GB, and the flagship $38/month tier offers 2TB.

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

If that wasn't enough, you can subscribe to Apple One and also buy one of the five iCloud storage plans to get a whopping 14TB of cloud-based storage.


If you're still low on iCloud storage after performing all the steps above, use the Files app on iPhone or Finder on Mac to delete any additional files or folders you no longer need. Also, look into the Voice Memos app, which stores audio recordings in iCloud.

If you don't want to pay for cloud storage, perform a little spring-cleaning of your iCloud now and then to ensure you have enough space to sync your settings and essential data across devices.

Your changes have been saved

Email Is sent

Please verify your email address.

Send confirmation email

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics.

Manage Your List Follow Followed Follow with Notifications Follow Unfollow
版本聲明 本文轉載於:https://www.howtogeek.com/191340/how-to-free-up-icloud-storage-space/如有侵犯,請聯絡[email protected]刪除
最新教學 更多>
  • Assetto Corsa Evo在窗戶上崩潰了嗎?學習此最佳指南
    Assetto Corsa Evo在窗戶上崩潰了嗎?學習此最佳指南
    Assetto Corsa EVO 啟動或運行後崩潰?別擔心,這在剛發布的遊戲中很常見!本文提供4種可靠方法解決此問題。 Assetto Corsa EVO 崩潰問題 Assetto Corsa是一款模擬賽車遊戲,提供逼真的駕駛體驗和各種賽車。六年後,Assetto Corsa EVO問世,但許多...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-08
  • 遇到valorant朋友列表不起作用?這是指南
    遇到valorant朋友列表不起作用?這是指南
    遇到Valort Friends列表不工作錯誤可能會令人沮喪,尤其是當您渴望與好友合作時。這是一個相當普遍的問題,您並不孤單。 Minitool的這篇文章解釋了解決此問題的幾種可行方法。 關於valorant Friends列表不起作用,它是一款出色的第一人稱射擊遊戲,提供了激動人心的遊戲玩法和戰...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-07
  • 諾基亞不認為iPhone的觸摸鍵盤會起飛
    諾基亞不認為iPhone的觸摸鍵盤會起飛
    在一個了不起的技術歷史中,諾基亞的內部演示文稿從iPhone的2007年發布後顯示了公司的想法,以及諾基亞在分析中出了什麼問題。其在芬蘭阿爾託大學設計的在線存儲庫,該庫於2025年1月15日向公眾開放。諾基亞設計檔案中充滿了設計筆記,素描和各種手機原型的照片和照片,可追溯到根據Statista的說法...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-07
  • 如何修復set_of_invalid_context bsod Windows 10/11
    如何修復set_of_invalid_context bsod Windows 10/11
    通常會遇到Windows 10/11上的blue屏幕死亡錯誤的藍色屏幕。如何從計算機上擺脫它。如果您目前正在尋找解決方案,則Minitool Solution的本指南可以幫助您。 陷阱框架的堆棧指針低於當前堆棧點值的值。完整的錯誤消息是:錯誤0x30 set_of_invalid_context ...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-06
  • 如何在PowerPoint中分組和分組對象
    如何在PowerPoint中分組和分組對象
    讓我們學習如何分組對象。 步驟1:導航到包含您要分組的對象的幻燈片。 (示例:四個不同的彩色圓圈)。 [2 選擇所有所需的對象。 將鼠標拖到它們上,或者在按住“ ctrl”鍵時單獨選擇每個對象。 [2 步驟3:右鍵單擊任何選定的對像以訪問上下文菜單。 [2 或者,使用鍵盤快捷鍵“ ctrl...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-06
  • 2025年最好的iPhone 16箱
    2025年最好的iPhone 16箱
    保護新的iPhone 16至關重要,即使您喜歡它的時尚設計。 質量案例可確保其保持原始。以下是一些適合各種需求和样式的首選: [2 [2 [2 負擔得起並不意味著脆弱。這種情況可提供出色的全方位保護,並具有時尚的半透明設計。 $ 12在Amazon [2 [2 這個堅固的案例結合了消除震動的T...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-06
  • Windows 11 KB5050094推出到24H2,學習新功能
    Windows 11 KB5050094推出到24H2,學習新功能
    Windows 11 Build 26100.3025 (KB5050094)現已登陸Release Preview通道!此更新為Windows 11 24H2版本帶來諸多改進,MiniTool將為您詳細解讀。 Release Preview通道讓您搶先體驗即將公開發布的Windows版本中的修復...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-02-06
  • Skyjem病毒的權威指南和刪除它的5種方法
    Skyjem病毒的權威指南和刪除它的5種方法
    SkyJem是一个浏览器劫持者,将搜索查询重定向到其他网站。为了防止进一步的损失,您最好尽快将其删除。 Minitool的这篇文章将重点关注SkyJem病毒的去除,并为您提供详细的说明。什么是SkyJem Virus? 更改默认搜索引擎。跟踪您的在线活动。 提供误导性搜索结果。可以单击发起的链接...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-01-26
  • 5個修復了WhatsApp桌面未下載圖像的修復程序
    5個修復了WhatsApp桌面未下載圖像的修復程序
    修復 1:檢查內部儲存 如果您無法使用 WhatsApp Desktop 下載映像,請先檢查 Mac 或 Windows PC 上的內部儲存空間。 Mac 上 第 1 步:在 Mac 上開啟 系統設定,然後點選左側選單中的常規。 第 2 步:點擊 儲存 並檢查 Mac 上剩餘的空間。 您可以...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-01-25
  • EOS-ERR-1603:解決此錯誤的 4 種有用方法
    EOS-ERR-1603:解決此錯誤的 4 種有用方法
    您的裝置上遇到 Epic Online Services 無法安裝的問題嗎?如果您在安裝 EOS 時遇到 EOS-ERR-1603 錯誤,MiniTool 的這篇文章應該是您取得有用方法的正確位置。繼續閱讀並嘗試透過詳細指南解決問題! Epic Online Services 讓遊戲開發者能夠在其遊...
    軟體教學 發佈於2025-01-15
  • 外接硬碟會降低電腦速度嗎?立即輕鬆修復!
    外接硬碟會降低電腦速度嗎?立即輕鬆修復!
    如果您的外接硬碟降低了PC的速度,您的工作效率或娛樂體驗將受到極大影響。這裡這個MiniTool軟體教學介紹如果你的電腦在插入外接硬碟時速度變慢該怎麼辦。 現象:插入外接硬碟時電腦變慢「嗨每個人。我的東芝 1 TB 硬碟出現一些問題。當我插入它時,Windows變得非常慢(就像第一次打開時文件資源管...
    軟體教學 發佈於2024-12-23
  • 如何修復 PC 上的接地崩潰:這是完整指南
    如何修復 PC 上的接地崩潰:這是完整指南
    《Grounded》是最著名的生存冒险游戏之一。虽然游戏提供了流畅的游戏体验,但 PC 玩家可能会面临接地崩溃或无法启动等问题。要解决此问题,请继续阅读并按照此 MiniTool 帖子中概述的步骤进行操作。为什么 PC 上会发生接地崩溃?在深入研究方法之前,了解这一点至关重要Grounded 无法启...
    軟體教學 發佈於2024-12-22
  • CS2 無法載入模組引擎 2?這裡有一些修復
    CS2 無法載入模組引擎 2?這裡有一些修復
    《反恐精英 2》是一款深受許多玩家喜愛的遊戲。你是其中之一嗎?如果是的話,有時您可能會遇到諸如CS2無法載入模組引擎2之類的錯誤。本MiniTool指南重點關注該錯誤,並為您提供有效的解決方案,以便您享受流暢的遊戲體驗。 CS2 無法在Windows 上載入模組引擎2CS2 無法載入模組引擎2,C...
    軟體教學 發佈於2024-12-12
  • 印表機列印半頁文件:6 個簡單修復
    印表機列印半頁文件:6 個簡單修復
    Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help MSPoweruser sustain the editorial team Read more ...
    軟體教學 發佈於2024-11-25
  • HDMI 連接埠在 Windows 11 上無法運作 - 5 個簡單的解決方案
    HDMI 連接埠在 Windows 11 上無法運作 - 5 個簡單的解決方案
    请阅读我们的披露页面,了解如何帮助 MSPoweruser 维持编辑团队的发展 了解更多 .restoro-download-arro...
    軟體教學 發佈於2024-11-25

免責聲明: 提供的所有資源部分來自互聯網,如果有侵犯您的版權或其他權益,請說明詳細緣由並提供版權或權益證明然後發到郵箱:[email protected] 我們會在第一時間內為您處理。

Copyright© 2022 湘ICP备2022001581号-3