Manage iCloud storage on Mac
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5 GB of free storage. Your iCloud storage is used for documents stored in iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, iOS device backups, messages and attachments in iCloud Mail (your @icloud.com email account), and more. If you run out of space, you can upgrade your storage. You can also remove stored items to make more space available.
For information about managing iCloud storage using iOS devices, see “Manage Apple ID and iCloud settings” in the user guide for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
View and manage iCloud storage
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then click iCloud.Click Manage, then do any of the following:
Upgrade your storage: Click Buy More Storage or Change Storage Plan, choose the amount of storage you want, then follow the instructions.
When you buy an iCloud storage upgrade, it’s billed to your Apple ID account. If you’re in a Family Sharing group and you use the same Apple ID to share family purchases, the upgrade is billed to the family organizer’s account.
See how an app or feature is using storage: Select an app or feature on the left, then read the usage information on the right.
Remove an iOS device backup: Click Backups on the left, select an iOS device on the right whose backup you don’t need, then click Delete (below the list of backups). If you don’t see Backups on the left, your iOS devices don’t have iCloud backups.
WARNING: If you delete the iCloud backup for your current iOS device, iCloud stops automatically backing up the device.
Delete items from iCloud storage
You can save copies of documents before removing them from iCloud.
On your Mac, click the Finder icon
in the Dock, click iCloud Drive in a Finder sidebar.Drag items from iCloud drive to another folder in the Finder sidebar or on the desktop, such as such as Downloads, Movies, Music, and Pictures. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents on your Mac and iOS devices.
Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then click iCloud.Click Manage, then do any of the following:
Permanently remove all documents and data for an app: Select an app on the left, then click the Delete Documents and Data button on the right. Some apps have instructions on the right for removing documents and data from iCloud instead of a button.
WARNING: If you delete an app’s documents and data, they’re removed immediately from iCloud, from all your devices set up for iCloud Drive, and from iCloud Drive on iCloud.com.
You can also remove documents individually. Click the Finder icon in the Dock, click iCloud Drive in the Finder sidebar, then drag items from iCloud Drive to the Trash.
You can use Settings on iCloud.com to recover files you deleted from iCloud Drive in the last 30 days. See Recover deleted files on iCloud.com in iCloud Help.
For information about ways to free up iCloud storage space using your iOS device, see iCloud storage management overview in iCloud Help.