iCloud Drive is installed by default and activated on Apple devices, saving all the information we have on the iPhone, Mac and iPad. This one comes with 5 GB free serial storage. This storage is perhaps too little for many users, so we are going to see how we can manage it.
Synchronization and space occupied in iCloud
We use iCloud Drive storage more and more than our own iPhone and iPad storage because we can have all the synchronized files in several devices, therefore, it is essential to know what we have stored in it and how we have it distributed. Therefore, if you want to know the memory distribution of iCloud space, you can see it from iphone settingsclick on iCloud and you can see the storage you have in the cloud and how you have it distributed, indicating the percentage that you have of applications, backup copies photos and files.
analyze the problem
There is various solutions to this storage problem. First of all, one solution is to know what are the applications or files that occupy more resources of iCloud. Specifically, one of the categories that occupy the most storage in the Apple cloud are the photos and backups. By default, Apple makes the iCloud backups. This backup can occupy 2-3 GB. To avoid this problem, it is recommended to do the backups on mac and never do it automatically in iCloud and prevent it from being stored on this platform.
Second, it is importantreview the content What do you have stored in your library, because if you have activated the iCloud photo library, everything is synchronized and stored in the iCloud space, and many of the photos that you do not want to be stored and we have to delete files that are generated. In addition, a lot of existing information is duplicate photos that you have taken when you are going to take a landscape photo or a family photo. For this reason, from iOS 16 Is there an option to remove the duplicate photos without having to go looking for the photos one by one. To do this, from the photos app, scroll down until you reach the Items tab and click on Duplicates. Then select those duplicates you want to remove.
How to manage storage?
On both Mac, iPad and iPhone, there is no button that indicates “Save File”, so that all the files that are generated in the different applications are stored in iCloud automatically. Therefore, a solution to better manage iCloud is to determine which applications we want to store your information in the cloud.
Finally, you can use the option share with family of iCloud, which allows you to have up to 6 family members synchronized where you can share files without having to pay any additional subscription type. This system allows you to have unlimited storage of photos and files, so it will allow you to allocate the free iCloud storage for other matters.
