How To Reduce Icloud Storage Backups

Turn off apps under choose data to back up.

How to reduce icloud storage backups. Here you can see which apps are included in your icloud backup. If you want to turn off backup and remove all backups for that device from icloud choose delete when you re asked to confirm. How to delete icloud backups on your mac launch system preferences from the dock your finder or by clicking the apple icon on the top left of your screen. 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. Go to settings your apple id name icloud.

Free up space by deleting emails especially emails with large file attachments. To do this select the backup delete backup disable delete. Click manage and select backups. Icloud save a few of your backups to give you more flexibility. You can change your storage plan.

Delete all your old icloud backups i e. Prune your icloud mail if you re using apple s icloud mail your email also counts toward your icloud storage usage. You will also see backups option and a more granular list of apps that icloud takes a backup of and their respective size. Go to settings apple id icloud manage storage backup. Select one of the device backups then click delete.

To change this go to settings apple id icloud manage storage backups and tap the icon of your device. All of the information for that app will be removed from your icloud. Remove some data from the device to reduce the amount of data being backed up to icloud. Lots of ios apps back up automatically to your icloud once you have installed them. This way you can free up tons of icloud storage.

Tap your device names. Exclude apps from the backup. Backups of the devices that you no longer have. Tap choose turn off delete. Check if you are using icloud backup.