welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today
let's upgrade icloud storage let's rock and roll you've probably all been there in one way shape
or form your icloud storage got full and you got to make a decision either you deal with the
annoying annoying messages and prompts and notifications that pop up on your devices
you either get rid of icloud completely or you upgrade your icloud storage today
we're going to upgrade my icloud storage now depending on what devices you have you can
either update from your computer or your iphone or your ipad iphone and ipad are pretty much the
same but i'm going to show you both the computer and the ipad so let's go on my computer here i'm
going to open up system preferences and across the top i have where it has my account for the
apple id and icloud i'm going to go to apple id and again choose icloud on the left and
down here at the bottom we can see my icloud storage is full five gigabytes zero available
and i'm gonna choose manage and this is where i can choose either to stop using some of the
services so i could turn off and delete the photos but in return it's not gonna synchronize to any of
my devices anymore or be backed up so that's why i want to use icloud so i'm going to choose buy more
storage in the top right and when i do that i have the three different plans here i can choose the 50
gigabyte 200 or 2 terabyte the 200 gigabyte and the two terabyte you can actually use with family
members which is really really nice i encourage you to do that especially if you have honestly if
you have more than one person in your house it's it's a no-brainer for a dollar a month for 50 gigs
instead of 1.50 split between two people to double that storage or to quadruple that storage it's a
no-brainer so recommend doing that now these plans are only for upgrading the icloud apple came out
actually with a whole new service pull up apple's website and their whole service is bundling all
of their services essentially so a lot of people have kind of gotten into the ecosystems and you
know the apple music the apple arcade apple tv icloud is a huge one apple news and apple fitness
so apple kind of took those other plans from just icloud being your storage and your backup and your
photo syncing and your messages and all of those uh different things that icloud does and they're
tying it into this kind of one overall membership so here's the prices for that 15 bucks which gets
you 50 gigs but you get their music subscription which is i think 10 or 15 bucks a month
so if you use spotify or pandora something like that you have the potential to say okay
get rid of that music streaming go with apple music and then you also get their apple
tv subscription their arcade subscription and icloud storage and so here they have family plan
20 bucks a month 200 gigs and then their premier one which bumps you up to two terabytes and you
get everything included 30 bucks a month yes it seems pricey at first but when you break it down
and consider what it is like for me currently i pay ten dollars a month for icloud storage but
i also pay 15 a month for spotify and i pay 15 a month for netflix and all of these other services
so i can actually eliminate some of those consolidate and go with this because then i can
get my news from here i can get rid of spotify and use apple music if i wanted to because i'm already
tied into the ecosystem with all of my photos and all my videos and my text messages and all of that
and all my kids and my wife use it as well because they all have iphones or ipads and
they're backing up and using the icloud storage too and what's really cool about this plan is
with the apple one you can actually bump it up to four terabytes so if you're at that point where
you do use this a lot especially for photos or videos or just icloud drive in general
if you sign up for apple one subscription you have the ability to bump it up to the four terabyte
option but i get on tangents i just it happens so let's go back to just the pure basic icloud
storage so here i could select 50 gigs and do 99 cents a month and do next
and then it's going to prompt me to put in my password and my credit card and all of that now
let's do the same process and finish it through on the ipad they're going to be very very very
very similar and everything on the ipad is going to be identical if you have an iphone as well
i just do it because it's a bigger screen so we're going to go to settings here i'm going to touch
my account in the top left i'm going to choose icloud on the far right we're going to go to
manage storage and then we're going to say upgrade to sync my stuff i don't need the 2 terabyte let's
go with the 200 gigabyte because in more videos that are coming up i'm going to start doing family
sharing child accounts and all that good stuff so let's go ahead and choose buy so you can cancel
any time it's showing me it's going to be 2.99 a month and i'm going to use my finger print here
to process the payments i don't have a payment on file and that's what it's saying it's saying hey
can't buy it if you don't have any credit card on file so i'm going to choose continue
and this is where you're going to type in your card information so touch and hold manage payments
i don't need another apple credit card so we're going to do add payment method we're going to do
credit and debit card and this is and you have you have a couple different options of how you
want to pay for it you could do their apple credit card which is really really nice actually you can
type in your own credit and debit card or you can pay with paypal so i'm going to do a number here
all right so now i have my number in there credit card first name last name address i'm going to
touch done in the top right and it's going to add this payment and associate this credit card
to this apple id on file and then it takes a moment for it to go through and now notice five
gigabytes out of 200 gigs available now it says share with family and then i can also change the
storage plan so if i touch change storage plan i can always go back and go up to the two terabyte
or i can touch downgrade options and i can always go back to a the 50 gigabytes if i wanted to or
just go to the free one but i'm going to touch cancel here because i'm not going to do that
and then this other option is share with family and if i touch that it's going to bring me to
the family sharing for icloud and that's where i invite members or i create a child account
now that i've done this and upgraded the storage i can go through and i can go back to icloud backup
where here at the last message the ipad cannot be backed up because it's not enough icloud storage
available so now i can actually touch back up now and fully back this up this will work behind the
scenes i'm going to exit out of the settings uh let's jump back to the computer here let's kind
of refresh the system preferences i'm going to go to manage and notice it changed now once i
kind of refreshed it so now i have 200 gigs here 193 available so i'm going to choose done now i
have all of this space and if i open up photos on here on the mac and scroll down towards the bottom
it's going to start updating and uploading all of these as well so then now i'm able to
take pictures on my phone again and have it go to my mac and to my ipad and all of my devices
are going to be on the same page i can jump out to icloud.com here so let's go to icloud we'll sign
in and i should be able to go to account settings and i can see the storage available here as well
so i can say yep i have 200 gigs available so now all of this stuff can be uploaded into the cloud
if i go to settings go to photos it's going to start synchronizing any photos that were on my
other devices you kind of get the point i was full on my icloud i filled up the five useless
gigs that apple gives you can you tell them a little bit bitter about that but i upgraded to
200 gigs so now i have plenty of room i know that if i go back into the settings my icloud backup
that is going to finish and it can take a while because it hasn't backed up in a long time and
we have to keep in mind that if i go back to general and go back to ipad storage
it's backing up a lot of this stuff it's backing up text messages your photos
your notes your email all of the settings on your ipad all of the layouts all of the apps
so it it can take a while if it hasn't done it so that's kind of the process of of updating that's
why you would want to update your icloud now let's just say that i had a ton of photos on my
computer and i wanted to start using icloud for my photographs and i only upgraded to the 50 gigabyte
so if i had 100 gigabytes worth of photographs that 50 gigabytes is not going to be enough
so accommodate you know plan ahead of what storage you might think you need
based off of what the features of icloud you actually want to use on your devices
most people use photos and videos so that's why i kind of use that as the primary example but yeah
that that is how you update your icloud storage thank you so much for watching i hope you learned
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