While you have the option to buy extra iCloud storage, most people will prefer to make the best use of the free 5GB that Apple gives them to back up their pictures, documents, messages and everything else in iCloud and iCloud Drive. Here’s how you can manage your storage using your iCloud email login on each of your synced devices:
1. Go to Settings on your iOS device or System Preferences on your Mac, and select “iCloud”.
2. Go to “Storage and Backup”. This will show you how much available storage you have.
3. Tap or click on “Manage Storage”. This will take you to a list of all devices that are backing up to iCloud, as well as documents and app data that are being backed up.
4. Click on the “Backup” that is taking up the most space.
5. Click “Show All”, and scroll through the list to make sure that everything that is turned on (green) is something you absolutely need to be backed up to iCloud (hint: online accounts like email, Facebook, etc. don’t need to be backed up because they already exist online).
