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This wikiHow teaches you how to free up iCloud space on an iPhone by clearing unneeded photos, videos, and app data.
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Open the Photos app. It’s the white icon with a multicolored floral symbol inside. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.
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Tap all photos and videos you want to delete. This adds a blue and white check mark to the bottom-right corner of each thumbnail.
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Tap the trash icon. It’s at the bottom-right corner of the screen. A confirmation message will appear.
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Tap Delete . The button will actually say something like ″Delete 45 Videos″ or ″Delete 2 Photos.″ This deletes the selected media from your iCloud library, which frees up iCloud storage space.
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Open your iPhone’s Settings . You’ll usually find this app on your home screen.
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Tap your name. It’s at the top of the menu.
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Tap iCloud . It’s at the top of the second section. A list of apps currently syncing to your iCloud account will appear with green switches. Apps that are not syncing have white switches.
- Synced data can take up a lot of space in your iCloud account. If there’s anything you don’t need to sync, it’s best to disable it if space is becoming an issue.
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Slide an app’s switch to the Off to stop it from syncing. A pop-up will appear.
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Decide what to do with the existing app data. If you want to keep the data on your iPhone, tap Keep on My iPhone . To free up space on your iPhone as well, select Delete from My iPhone . The app’s data will now be removed from iCloud.
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Open your iPhone’s Settings . You’ll usually find this app on the home screen.
- This method makes more space available on your iPhone, but may use up extra space in iCloud.
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Tap your name. It’s at the top of the menu.
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Tap iCloud . It’s at the top of the second section.
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Tap Photos . It’s the first option under ″APPS USING ICLOUD.″
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Tap Optimize iPhone Storage . This adds a blue check mark to the option, which means that full-resolution photos and videos will now be replaced with optimized (smaller) versions, while the full-resolution versions will be saved to iCloud.
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