Icloud Space

Unless you pay for an icloud subscription apple gives you 5gb of storage with any device s purchase.

Icloud space. How to free up icloud storage space manage your backups. Back up photos elsewhere. That s not much space to share between a mac an iphone and an ipad.

Each iphone or ipad you own automatically backs up data from your installed apps to your icloud. Photos can eat up a lot of space. Apple gives every icloud user 5gb of storage which sounds like a lot until you consider that it s per account not per device.

Click change storage plan. Click change storage plan or buy more storage and choose a plan. Click manage in the lower right corner.

If you re using macos mojave or earlier. Delete documents. With icloud photo library icloud can automatically back up.

Click next and enter your apple id password. That s not a lot of space and you can quickly find that you don t have enough room for your. Go back to your icloud preferences and click set up family.

Click manage in the lower right corner. On your mac choose apple menu system preferences then click apple id. Follow the onscreen.