How To Clean Up Icloud Space

Turn off the backup feature for any of these apps by swiping the button.

How to clean up icloud space. In the choose data to back up section you should now see a list of the five apps that take up the most space on icloud. Instead of using icloud photo library try another app like google photos dropbox or flickr that can automatically back up your photos. Once there click on storage and then select manage storage. On your iphone go to your settings option. Tap your trash folder.

If your iphone ipad or ipod touch is set up to access icloud email you can delete messages from any mailbox then empty the trash to free up space. Swipe left across any message to delete it. To free up space you can disable icloud photo library and photo stream by tapping on photos from the main icloud screen and disabling these features. Go to settings on your ios device and select icloud. 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.

Under the storage heading you will see how much of your space you have used. Delete messages one at a time or tap edit tap select all and then tap trash to delete all of them.