How To Reduce Icloud Storage Backups

Prune your icloud mail if you re using apple s icloud mail your email also counts toward your icloud storage usage.

How to reduce icloud storage backups. Turn off apps under choose data to back up. Here you can see which apps are included in your icloud backup. This way you can free up tons of icloud storage. Go to manager storage backups. Backups of the devices that you no longer have.

Free up space by deleting emails especially emails with large file attachments. The specifics vary from version to version so for example in ios 11 it s manage storage backups and in ios 10 it s icloud storage manage storage. Tap on manage storage. Icloud save a few of your backups to give you more flexibility. Select one of the device backups then click delete.

Exclude apps from the backup. Go to settings apple id icloud manage storage backup. Go to settings your apple id name icloud. All of the information for that app will be removed from your icloud. Tap your device names.

You can now select the device and delete its. If you want to turn off backup and remove all backups for that device from icloud choose delete when you re asked to confirm. Pay for additional icloud storage. If you have icloud backup enabled every app you install will automatically be backed up. Delete all your old icloud backups i e.

To change this go to settings apple id icloud manage storage backups and tap the icon of your device. You can change your storage plan. You will also see backups option and a more granular list of apps that icloud takes a backup of and their respective size. Lots of ios apps back up automatically to your icloud once you have installed them. In the bottom right corner of the window.