welcome back everyone my name is joel feld it oh icloud storage is full
anyways my name is joel feld and today backup failed
icloud today's topic as you guessed icloud storage that's rock and roll
today's topic is discussing icloud storage specifically some of the messages that you've
probably seen on your device one or two times icloud backup you can't back up your phone icloud
storage is full things aren't syncing so let's actually discuss what those messages actually
mean how to actually look at the storage and see what is actually taking up space i run into a lot
of people that get those messages and instantly they think that their device is full and they
go oh my iphone is full my ipad is full i should have bought the 256 gig or the 500 gig but in all
reality chances are your device physically isn't full your icloud is full and let's just let's just
start off with apple uh the five gigabytes that you give to everyone for free let's just be real
it's useless five gigs it's it's literally nothing i mean you can't compete at least google gives you
15 gigs for free so five gigs useless so let's actually talk about the storage on your physical
device let's look at the storage and breakdown of the icloud so let's start with the computer
now if you're getting the messages on your phone or your ipad or your computer saying that icloud
is full let's actually go to icloud and look at what's actually full and taking up space so on
the computer here we're going to go to system preferences and i'm going to go to apple id in
the top and then over here on the left hand side we have icloud and then here is what is all turned
on for syncing into the cloud and then down here at the bottom we have this little visual graph
and it kind of breaks down what's actually taking up space and here i can see the five gigabytes is
fully used i have zero kilobytes available so it's maxed out and as i hover on top of the colored
graph here i can see that the majority of of it is photos 4.3 gigs 705 megabytes of documents mail
messages and if i click this manage button i can further break that down and it shows me the
same exact information in this list here i can see other things that might be taking up space
typically text messages take up a lot of space your backups can take a lot of space also so
that's looking at it on the mac in the system preferences if i go out to icloud.com if i sign
in here notice the big banner across the top your icloud storage is full photos videos documents and
data are no longer being updated so that pretty much means that if you have multiple devices
if you have a phone and you're taking pictures that information is not going up into the cloud
which means it's not going to synchronize to other devices that you may have and it's not going to be
backed up if i go to account settings here i see the same exact visual graph 4.3 gigabytes
is photos and videos it breaks down to documents and i have zero space left available after i've
looked at this graph i can click learn more on the top right here and it's going to show me
you know kind of their help guide how to upgrade to storage how to downgrade to storage how to
delete files just kind of overview of things to look at of why it's filled up and if i come to
my ipad you guessed it i go right into settings here go to icloud in the top left choose icloud
on the right and again same exact place i can see everything that's turned on for icloud
and everything that's synchronizing and if i touch manage storage i'm able to see exactly what's
taking up space in icloud now let's actually look at what's actually physically on my ipad versus
what we've already looked at in the cloud so usually people will think oh my device is full but
it's really not if i go to the general settings and i touch ipad storage on the right hand side
i can see that at the very top i'm only using 29 gigabytes of 128 so i have
tons of room physically on my ipad but because i'm trying to use icloud and use the photo syncing
features and the backup features i can't put this 29 gigabytes in that free five gigabytes i can't
put 29 gallons into a 5 gallon bucket just doesn't work so i really have to weigh out my options here
number one do i want to use icloud or do i not want to use icloud you know even if i go to the
photos here open up photos notice it's saying hey icloud storage is full photos videos icloud drive
are no longer updating so i can either ignore it and shut off icloud completely and don't use it or
i will say this i'm forced i don't like using that word but you're pretty much forced to upgrade your
storage and if i touch that button it's going to take me to the settings here to choose a different
plans to purchase so like i said before 50 gigs for a dollar a month i mean that's 12 bucks a year
you've spent more at mcdonald's or chipotle you've probably spent more at chipotle
uh on your burrito bowl than you do a whole year worth of icloud so just look at the prices it's
not that bad it's gonna build automatically and then you have a little bit of peace of mind of
oops your phone dropped do you have an icloud backup because you go to the apple store the
first thing they're gonna say is do you have an icloud backup and you're gonna say i don't know
and then they're going to say well what's your apple id and you're going to say
i don't know so apple id icloud wanted the same they're the same account it's signed in with
everything for your apple products you have one look it up it's in your settings if you
don't know it figure it out because it's important if you own an apple product so
really it comes down to do you want to use icloud or do you not want to use icloud is it worth the
money to invest to have more cloud storage so that your device is protected for a backup purpose
and also the convenience of taking photographs and accessing all of that content everywhere or
accessing your text messages everywhere or your notes or your contacts your calendars
because remember icloud is a whole service it's synchronizing content through all of the these
online applications and tools so that you can access your information on all of these different
devices computer windows computer iphone ipad apple computer think about it as an investment
for all of your content your contacts your pictures all of that and here's the best thing
a lot of people that i talk to will always try to find an alternative to not pay for the dollar a
month and what i mean by this is let's say photos we'll stick with the concept of photos and videos
because photos and videos seem to be the primary piece that takes up the most storage on your phone
or your ipad and the best part is is people want to find alternatives to not pay for icloud storage
so they'll go with like google photos which you have to pay for more storage on google's ecosystem
just like you do for icloud amazon prime if you have an amazon membership they give you a cloud
storage different email accounts like yahoo and microsoft they give you online storage also but
with icloud the beauty of it is the integration of it that comes with it being on your phone on your
ipad and if you have a mac or if you have two devices or really just one it's that peace of
mind that you can always have the icloud backup if something were to happen or you get a new device
restore from an icloud backup boom all of your stuff is there you don't have to worry about
oh where are my photos over here in google or are they over here it's just keep it simple keep it
simple most people will use icloud for backup and for syncing purposes of your photographs to
all of your devices and also backup for your iphone or ipad because if something were to
happen or maybe you get a new iphone three years from now having that backup is really really nice
because it essentially takes everything on your on your phone let's let's say your phone for example
all of your text messages your photos your organization of all of the different folders
everything that's on that device if that device were to become lost broken stolen whatever it
may be if you're using icloud and you have a full backup of it it really doesn't matter you can grab
a new iphone or even an old iphone sign into it restore it from the backup and you you wouldn't
skip a beat so having that to me is worth the dollar a month that you pay for the 50 gigs or the
three dollars a month for you know 200 gigs don't drink a cup of coffee for a day and
you've you've made your money back already so icloud it's to me it's a good investment so that's
pretty much uh icloud when it's full and now it's time to decide what you want to do do you want to
pay for it or do you not and i do recommend if you have multiple people in the family
do one of the shared family options because you can pay you know let's say three dollars a month
for 200 gigs maybe you've got two kids in the family you got your wife you got your husband
whomever it may be if you all share on that that family plan you're all sharing the same
exact storage you can all back up your devices to the same exact cloud storage through icloud so
extremely helpful i actually do the two terabytes i got six of us on our family plan it's really
nice it's very very convenient and these are kind of the older plans apple just released their apple
one subscription which comes with you know apple music uh apple fitness apple news and gives you
actually um you can go up to four terabytes of storage using that subscription model but
again keep it simple go with what you need you can always upgrade or you can always downgrade
your subscription at any given time so that's icloud and that's talking about storage of why
your device might be full so thank you so much for watching i hope you learned something if
you have any questions throw some comments down below i'd love to hear if you've been
in this situation or not and what you did if you upgraded or just said nope not using icloud if you
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