This is a common problem that people like Larry from Marshville, North Carolina, are facing. That's why I love it when people send in great questions to this tech reporter who's been on this beat for ...

If you use an iPhone and don’t pay for an iCloud plan, you’ve almost definitely encountered at least one message that your iCloud storage is nearly used up. The free 5GB of storage is quickly taken up ...

Apple has quietly introduced a significant change to iCloud Shared Albums in iOS 27, affecting users who rely on the feature to store and ...

Apple gives iCloud users 5 GB of iCloud storage space. At first, 5 GB does not seem like a lot of storage space, however it is. For a majority of users it is plenty. For others, it isn’t. This storage ...

When you first set up an iCloud account for your iPad or iPhone, you get access to a small free allocation of online storage: 5GB. This can be useful for backups and for accessing photos, documents ...

A few years ago, Apple decided to offer seamless optimization for storage on your Mac. Instead of knowing where every byte (or gigabyte) lived, you could enable optimization in Photos or iCloud Drive.

Last night, Apple launched a first developer beta of iCloud.com, a set of web apps based on the iCloud functionality originally introduced in iOS 5 beta that mimic the appearance of Apple’s Lion ...

If you're low on iCloud storage but want to buy a new device and transfer your data, Apple is making the process easier in iOS 15 with a temporary storage boost. Apple says that the new feature will ...

Apple understands that device backups are only useful when the process is automatic and done regularly, which is why the feature is baked into iOS and handled by iCloud. Before iCloud, the prevailing ...

Apple gives all iCloud users 5 GB of iCloud storage. For most users, this is more than plenty of space, but for some, it isn’t nearly enough. This space is used for iOS device backups, iWork and other ...

Sick of Apple's iCloud ransom notes demanding money for more storage space? WSJ's Joanna Stern has tips on how to defuse the situation. Photo: Natalia Osipova/The Wall Street Journal. I never send it ...