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apples cloud storage service can be used to stash away photos videos device backups and more in the cloud apple offers users five gigabytes of space for free however because it's five gigabytes of space per Apple ID and not per device you may find yourself running out of space faster than you would like additional storage can be purchased from Apple but if you want to save some of that hard-earned money there are ways to free up space to see how much space you are using enter settings on your iPhone or iPad select iCloud click on storage followed by manage storage there's a good chance that backups are taking up most of your space if you have backups from old devices say from an iPhone 4 or an iPad 2 you no longer own you can just go ahead and delete those simply click on the backup scroll to the bottom and tap delete backup you may have also backed up things in your most recent backup that you didn't really need to have saved in the cloud if this is the case click on the most recent backup and scroll down to see all of the backup data if you find something you really don't care about simply flip the switch to off to delete the data this will also make sure it isn't backed up the next time you perform a backup the last thing I recommend doing is the leading backed up data from your photo library as you can see mine is taking up almost 2 gigabytes of space this is an easy way to free up a ton of space to stop your photos from automatically upload to the cloud go to settings click on iCloud select photos and turn off my photo stream there are a ton of cloud services out there that will automatically upload your photos and save them safely in the cloud the best part is most of them offer more free space than iCloud my favorites are Yahoo's Flickr app Microsoft's a onedrive app and the Google Plus app for more tips and tricks like this be sure to check out how to cnet.com you can also reach out to me on Twitter with any questions or comments I'm doing Riley I've seen it thanks for watching