
Enter your Apple ID/iCloud password to continue, then select the plan you’d like. If you’d like to lower your storage, tap on Downgrade Options toward the bottom of the screen. If you’d like more storage, tap on a higher tier and then tap Buy in the upper right corner (you’ll need to enter your Apple ID/iCloud password to complete your purchase). Like the image below you’ll now see your current Total Storage and Available storage, tap on Change Storage Plan.Īt the top you’ll see your current plan with options to upgrade below.

The benefit of upgrading your iCloud storage is it will allow you to continue your automatic backups on your iPhone or iPad without having delete content. Most users will be fine with 50 GB for a good amount of time if you’ve run over the free 5 GB. Other iCloud storage pricing includes 200 GB for $2.99/month, 1 TB $9.99/month, and 2 TB for $19.99/month. If you’ve run out of the 5 GB of free iCloud space and are getting messages saying your device hasn’t been backed up in x amount of days or weeks it is usually well worth $0.99/month for the 50 GB plan. If you’d like to stick with what you have, feel free to skip below a bit further where we’ll cover some ways to reduce what you’re storing with iCloud. The images used will show how to do this on an iPhone, but the same steps apply for iPad (it will just look a bit different).


If you know you’d like to upgrade or downgrade your current iCloud storage plan we’ll cover that first. Let’s take a look at managing your iCloud storage plan along with a few tips and tricks on managing what you’re saving with iCloud. Apple includes 5 GB of free cloud storage with each iCloud account, yet with iPhone and iPad cameras improving each year and an expanding amount of ways to utilize iCloud, that free storage fills up fast.
