Manage Your iCloud Storage

If you’re new to the Apple ecosystem, you probably haven’t subscribed to iCloud+ yet. While you don’t need to to do this, it’s a useful service that will give you at least 50GB of storage in the cloud, which can come in handy if you have other Apple devices.

If you don’t pay for a subscription, you can still use iCloud, but you’ll only have 5 GB of cloud storage, and won’t have access to some of the other features like iCloud Private Relay.

If you don’t have much storage to work with, you might want to disable some apps that automatically use iCloud. You can do this by doing the following:

1. Click the Apple menu in the top right corner of your screen.
2. Select System Settings.
3. Click your Apple ID. That is, click your name on the left sidebar in the settings window. 
4. Click on iCloud.
5. Under Apps using iCloud, click Show All.
6. Select the app you want and then enable or disable Sync this Mac.